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Ayerbe

Country:
Spain
State:
Aragon
City:
Ayerbe
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

Airports nearest to Ayerbe are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

  Guadasespe Huesca Airport (distanced approximately 16 km)
  Monflorite Huesca Airport (distanced approximately 38 km)
  Sanguesa Navarra Airport (distanced approximately 57 km)
  Bardenas Reales Airport (distanced approximately 62 km)
  Cogullada Zaragoza Airport (distanced approximately 68 km)

Key places to visit
Ayerbe Palace, Clock Tower , Church of San Pedro, Torre de San Pedro, Shrine of Our Lady of Casbas, Chapel of Saint Lucia, Palace of the Moon, Castle Muslim

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Places to Visit

Ayerbe Palace

Ayerbe Palace, also known as Palace of the Marquises of Urries, is a beautiful piece of civil architecture in Aragon. Located in the center of the town of Ayerbe, Huesca, part of the northern front of the square that was set before him.
In its present form is substantially restored. Building blocks is carefully cut, whose façade was sought by framing certain compositional symmetry between two large towers. The entrance is under a great arch of voussoirs with a coat of arms on it, a sundial in the seventeenth century.

Clock Tower

The Clock Tower Ayerbe is a civil works, Baroque, built in 1798 - 1799 to house the clock Council. Corresponds to an exempt building nearly 30 m. Located high in the Lower Square, near the old City Hall and it was the Palace of the Marquises of Ayerbe., proving to be a unique building in the regions of the contour because there is no such distinct buildings of the church or town hall. Since its construction is the roof of the villa and symbol of the same.

Church of San Pedro

The church of San Pedro in Ayerbe, is a construction of masonry, ashlar, brick and mud that offers works from various eras. Nave of five bays and a chancel traverse. The interior decoration of the temple is of neoclassical design, pilasters and cornices are inspired by the Ionic order, which still faithfully. There choir at the base of lunettes and front bow carpanel. Facade decoration scheduled, all of it is stone and concentrates its decoration on the cover. The cover is protected inside by a wooden screen, smooth boards. The church today has no tower. Its factory is the sixteenth century, preserving works of different periods. It has a religious museum and an important organ, trumpets, vertical and horizontal mid-nineteenth century.

Torre de San Pedro

The Tower of San Pedro in Ayerbe, is located north of the town, a dead-end alley. It is a building attached to particular buildings, some of which are remnants of the old church in the early nineteenth century, with affirmative agreement of the Supreme Council of Castile, had to be demolished because it threatened by the impending ruin ayerbenses. The dome began to suffer and to be open, as their points of support did not resist the push they received, so that it began to crack, so the church council refrained celebrations as he could to make it by passing the church Dominican convent.

Shrine of Our Lady of Casbas

Building blocks is cut regularly. It is a ship of four bays and a chancel, which is differentiated plant only a gate separation, and pictorial decoration vault. All sections are covered with lunettes have openings in the south wall. They are arch lintels outside and inside. The site is run on all sides by a wooden bench leaning against the wall, and turned supports. The choir is at the foot, high upon lunettes and has front arch embedded in the walls

Chapel of Saint Lucia

Building is exempt from the twelfth century, built in masonry retaining mason marks. Ship has a single span covered by a barrel vault. It depicted three arches that differentiate four installments. The chapel is covered with exedra. The entrance is on the feet and is a simple arch without ornamentation.

Palace of the Moon

The Palace of the Moon stands out among the village population to be a good example of Renaissance architecture in Aragon. It has a shield. Its factory is blocks and the facades are topped with the typical brick arches gallery, here are Moulded. The roof flies over wooden eaves.

Castle Muslim

At the top of the hill, whose slopes are the people, there are remains of a building that dates back to Moorish times and had to be redone after the Reconquest. Come to us only a few stone walls that appear to be retaining walls of the ground. An irregular shape and a well preserved.
 

Right Time to Visit

July - October

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