Roda de Isábena

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Roda de Isábena, since 1964 a part of the community Isábena, is a small town (2011 inhabitants 57 ) in the valley of the River Isábena in the comarca Ribagorza in the province of Huesca in Aragon in Spain, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. The place was in the 9th and 10th centuries the seat of a bishop and still houses the old cathedral of San Vicente. Roda de Isábena is the smallest city in Spain with a cathedral.

History

The place was 956 since the center of the county Ribagorza. In the same year the first church was consecrated. The place was early bishopric and remained so until 1149, when Lleida ( Lerida ) was recaptured. Roda was standing in the front against the Islamic Kingdom of Lerida. In 1006 Roda was conquered by the Moors under 'Abd al -Malik, the son of Almansor, and destroyed, but already in 1010 recaptured. Under King Sancho Ramirez of Aragon, a new Romanesque church was consecrated in 1067, which was completed in 1125. In the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Independence and in the Carlist wars, the situation of the site deteriorated. 1843 concerned the disentailment the cathedral. It was converted into a parish church. In 1964, the former municipalities of Puebla de Roda and Roda de Isábena were pooled for community Isábena, 1966, 1970 and 1977 yet joined other places. In 1979, the Cathedral Museum was affected by an extensive art theft.

Townscape

In the village the three-nave cathedral of San Vicente de Roda are a portal from the 13th century and was rebuilt in the 18th century tower. The Renaissance porch opens to an elevated place, which is stood by " noble buildings " ( Schomann ). Apses and a hall crypt with strapless Gratgewölben are the oldest parts of the north wall of the cathedral, the Romanesque cloister rejects (after 1150 ) at the chapter house. At this Cathedral Museum adjoins. The crypt, in which the grave of St.. Raimund is of Roda ( Ramón de Roda ) and was once completely painted, still has a representation of the Baptism of Christ from the time around 1120. In the place that is still partially surrounded by a wall, is also the Bishop's Palace.