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Monastery of San Victorián

El Pueyo de Araguás, Sobrarbe, Huesca

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Monastery of San Victorián

Monument · El Pueyo de Araguás, Sobrarbe, Huesca

The Real Monasterio de San Victorián stands in the settlement of Los Molinos, in the municipal area of El Pueyo de Araguás (Sobrarbe, Huesca), at 1,200 metres above sea level on the slopes of the sierra Ferrera. Some researchers place its origin in the 6th century, under the name San Martín de Asán, linked to the Italian hermit san Victorián, which would make it the oldest monastery on the peninsula, although this can only be documented from the 10th century onward. It came to be, according to tradition, the pantheon of the kings of Sobrarbe, and under Sancho Ramírez it underwent a great building boom as a guarantor of royal power in the area. Most of the surviving buildings date from the 16th century. Disentailed in 1835, in the 1950s it was stripped of its movable property, which was distributed between Barbastro Cathedral and other churches in the area.

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