Sobrarbe
Sobrabe is a Comarca (administrative unit ) of the Aragon Autonomous Community in Spain. It lies in the north of the province of Huesca, and has an area of 2202.7 km ² 6,854 inhabitants. Main cities are Boltaña and Ainsa; the latter is the main town of the municipality formed by the merger of several smaller places Ainsa - Sobrabe.
Location
The Sobrabe bordered to the west by the comarca of Alto Gallego, to the north by France, on the east by Ribagorza and on the south by the Somontano de Barbastro.
In addition to Ainsa - Sobrabe and Boltaña include the communities Abizanda, Bárcabo, Bielsa, Broto, Estaube, Fiscal, La Fueva, Gistaín Labuerda, Laspuña, Palo, Plan, Puértolas, El Pueyo de Araguás, San Juan de Plan, Tella -Sin and torla the Comarca.
The comarca is located in the Aragonese Pyrenees. In its north are the valleys of the rivers Ara, Cinca and Cinqueta and Organic Valley, in the south the Sierra de Guara and the Sierra de Olson. In the center of the comarca, there are several valleys where Broto, Fiscal, and Arcusa La Fueva lie. Also the national park Ordesa y Monte Perdido (see Ordesa and Monte Perdido ) belongs to the comarca.
County and Kingdom Sobrabe
The Sobrabe was one of three counties that made up the original Crown of Aragon after 1035. The county was part of the Spanish Mark of Charlemagne, whose history is obscure, but is related to legends Íñigo Arista of Pamplona, the first king of Navarre and apparently also Count of Sobrabe.
In the 10th century the county Sobrabe went on in the county Ribagorza. Sancho III. Navarre annexed this county 1016-1019, in which he referred to the fact descended from Dadildis de Le Pailhars. He shared for the time after his death (1035) his kingdom among his sons, whose third, Gonzalo Sánchez, King of Sobrabe and Ribagorza was. After the death of Gonzalo (around 1038 ) the area went to his brother Ramiro, on I., whereby the original territory of the Kingdom of Aragon, consisting of Jacetania was (incl. today comarca of Alto Gallego ), Sobrabe and Ribagorza constituted.
Attractions
Apart from the many natural beauties found in the Sobrabe several Romanesque churches in some cases already abandoned villages (see links).