Roda de Isabena: Our Garden
Roda de Isabena: Blossom
Roda de Isabena: Some views
Roda de Isabena: Some KAP views
Roda de isabena: Some KAP views El Villar
Roda de Isabena: Some KAP views of Roda
Roda de Isabena: The start
Roda de Isabena: Some streetviews
Roda de Isabena: Some Kap views
Roda de Isabena: Puebla de Isabena
Jamon
Roda de Isabena: Blossom
Roda de Isabena: Some views
Roda de Isabena: Some KAP views
Roda de isabena: Some KAP views El Villar
Roda de Isabena: Some KAP views of Roda
Roda de Isabena: The start
Roda de Isabena: Some streetviews
Roda de Isabena: Some Kap views
Roda de Isabena: Puebla de Isabena
Jamon
The small town of Roda de Isábena, located in the region
of Ribagorza, in Huesca and which has less then 50 inhabitants. Roda de Isábena
is the smallest town in Spain with a cathedral;
The cathedral of San Vicente was built in the 10th
century, it was almost completely destroyed during an Arab occupancy (Abd El
Malik). A new / second cathedral was built 1010, when the Christians recovered
the town, in that time Roda was the capital of the region. (That is also
the reason why this is today the crossroad for so many GR routes) The removal
of the see, first to Lleida and then to the diocese of Barbastro-Montsó reduced
the importance of the locality.. An other story; In the 70s
an art thief Erik the Belgian; René Alphonse van den Berghe (born Nivelles,
1940) stole part of the rich patrimony of the cathedral. To partially recover
from the guilt, Erik donated some of his paintings to the cathedral , which are
exposed inside.
In the cathedral you will find
three crypts at different levels whose central crypt is very extensive and
complex. The altar piece is from baroque time. In the old refter lying on the
monastery, frescoes and necrological inscriptions are admired.
