Serrablo - Aragon, Spain

With the bluest sky that you can imagine as background and the greenest fields, on the left bank of the River Gallego, a collection of Romanesque churches with Mozarabic overtones, built between the middle of the X and XI centuries, are the must priced treasures of Serrablo.  The temples arise from this incomparable fusion of styles and usually have a rectangular plan linked to a semicircular chevet, with
original decorations in the shade of slender towers.  All of them have been given the status of monuments of cultural interest, and they keep the secret of the passage of time among their walls.  Some of them protect ancestral traditions, as the division of women and men inside the temple, or the echo of shepherds and flocks that have sheltered inside them from the inclemency of the weather.

Visit all of them in San Bartolome' de Gavin, an original tower-belfry stands out, on a nave and a rectangular chevet. It has the characteristic large window with three horseshoe arches and the beaded
frieze.  Do not miss San Martin de Olivan, at the foot of the beauty Sabrepuerto, where the cows are still taken to graze.    The Romanesque parish church was raised around 1060, with a plan with a trapezoidal nave ended in tambour apse with half-domed vault.  They added a second nave in the flat
chevet in the XVI century.  The graveyard built onto the wall is still preserved.  Very close, San Juan de Busa boasts about Mozarabic details. It was the church of a disappeared village.  It withstands the passage of times in the middle of a greenland with the passage of time in the middle of a green grassland with the mountains at the end.  Pay a visit to Otai, Oros, Bajo, Espierre, Susin, Satue', Lasieso, Isun, Arto, Ordeves, Orna, Basaran  (in Formigal at present),  Latre and Javierrelatre in the
Caldearenas area or San Pedro de Larrede, said to be the most beautiful one.  it has a Latin cross plan, a semiciricular chevet and, on the sides, sunken doors with false horseshoe arch,.  The willowy tower is the dominant element, which has the typical triple opening windows of the area.  The aromas and landscapes will intoxicate you in all these villages, the tradition, austerity and peace will strike you.

Turismo Aragon

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