Barbastro

Barbastro
Municipality
Postal code		22300
Website	Official website

Barbastro (

, Spain. The city (also known originally as Barbastra or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers Cinca and Vero.

History

An ancient Celtiberian city called Bergidum or Bergiduna, in Roman times Barbastro (now called Brutina) was included in the Hispania Citerior region, and later of Hispania Tarraconensis.

After the fall of the

and the name Madyar was given to the town.

It was later settled by the

who made it the capital of the Emirate of Barbineta and Huesca until 862, and was known as the Emirate of Brabstra until 882.

In 1064,

, who made it a bishopric seat. Barbastro since then has followed the history of Aragon and Spain.

During the Spanish Civil War 51 Catholic Claretians were executed in Barbastro by militia of the Popular Front. Numerous socialist, republican and communist activists were jailed and executed in the following years after the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Barbastro's economy flourished until the early 20th century, when a period of decline began, ending only in the 1960s due to the growth of agricultural production.

Notable residents

• Bartolomé and Lupercio de Argensola, brothers, historians and poets who were part of the Spanish siglo de oro, a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain.
• Antonio Ricardos Carrillo de Albornoz, was a famous Spanish army general, who lived in the 18th century.
• Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, an institution of the Roman Catholic Church.
• María Pilar Crespí Pérez, chemist by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and teacher in the Colegio Estudio. Wife of Don Antonio Corróns Rodríguez, Ph.D., and mother of D. Pablo Antonio Corróns Crespí (AENOR) and D. Jorge Antonio Corróns Crespí (Proteyco Ibérica, S.A.).

Twin towns

• Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne

See also

• Barbastro Cathedral
• Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón
• Un Dios Prohibido, a fim about the massacre of priests in Barbastro during the Civil War

References

Sources

• Bardón, Tirso López (1907). "Diocese of Barbastro" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• The Historic Atlas of Iberia

External links

• Media related to Barbastro at Wikimedia Commons
• Barbastro travel guide from Wikivoyage
• History of Entremuro (in Spanish) Places, people and events about city's old quarter