Villanueva de Sigena

Villanueva de Sigena is a municipality in the province of Huesca Aragón Autonomous Community in Spain. It is located in the comarca of Monegros. Located on the River Alcanadre community had 443 inhabitants on 1 January 2013.

History

Inhabited since prehistoric times place was probably at the time of the Reconquista. The wife of King Alfonso II of Aragon, Sancha of Castile, founded here in 1158 for the nuns of St John the monastery of Santa María del Coro, where she died in 1208 as a nun. The monastery was dissolved in 1835 in the disentailment in Spain, but settled back soon and in 1923 declared a historic monument. During the Spanish Civil War it was burnt down, and around 1980 it was abandoned, but in 1985 settled by a group of sisters of another religious community again.

The place was known as the birthplace of the 1553 burned in Geneva humanist, physician and theologian Michael Servetus.

Attractions

  • Birthplace of Michael Servetus
  • The proto -Gothic parish church
  • Monastery of Santa María de Sigena

Partnership

Villanueva de Sigena is twinned with the French town of Tarascon.

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