Santa Cruz de la Serós
Santa Cruz de la Serós is the capital of the homonymous municipality ( municipality ) in the Pyrenees foothills on a variant of the Camino de Santiago. It is located in the comarca in the province of Huesca Jacetania the Autonomous Community of Aragon. Another village is Binacua.
Attractions
Except for some rustic farmhouses with traditional, high, conical chimneys in the village there are two Romanesque churches:
- The pre-Romanesque church of San Caprasio dedicated and named after the Bishop of Agen, formerly probably belonging to a Benedictine monastery was probably built around 1060 and shows Lombard influences. The accompanying convent was dissolved in the 12th century, the church became a parish church and a bell tower was in 1150. The interior consists of a nave and apse lower.
- The magnificent church of Santa María, the remnant of the most famous nunnery of Aragon. The Holy Cross Abbey (Spanish: Monasterio de Santa Cruz ) was founded in 1059/1061 by Ramiro I of Aragon, in order to provide for his daughters Urraca, Teresa and Sancha. These sisters - Sorores - believed to have influenced the place name.
Following the prominent example was the monastery supply device for non verheiratbare members of the Aragonese nobility. 1555 to the last Benedictine leave the place and be drawn into the Saviour Monastery Monasterio del Salvador to Jaca, other sources say the 17th century as the date of the move. All other belonging to the monastery buildings were destroyed afterwards.