Editing Benabarre

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| leader_name            = Alfredo Sancho Guardia (2007)
| leader_party           = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]
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'''Benabarre''' ({{IPA|es|benaˈβare|lang}}), in [[Ribagorçan dialect|Ribagorçan]] and [[Aragonese dialect|Aragonese]]: '''Benavarri'''<ref>{{cite book |title=Municipio de Benavarri (Benabarrre) |series=Toponimia de Ribagorza |author=Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez and Moisés Selfa Sastre |year=2009 |isbn=978-84-9743-303-7 |publisher=Editorial Milenio-Gobierno de Aragón}}</ref><ref>As shown in the [http://benasque.aragob.es:443/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VEROBJ&MLKOB=167404590505 Legislative Decree 2/2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423002723/http://benasque.aragob.es:443/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VEROBJ&MLKOB=167404590505 |date=2009-04-23 }} of 27 December, of the Government of Aragon, by the revised text of the Law on Comarcal Demarcation of Aragon is approved.</ref> ({{IPA|ca|benaˈβari|local}}) is a town and municipality in the [[Aragon]]ese [[Comarcas of Aragon|comarca]] of [[Ribagorza (comarca)|Ribagorza]], in the [[province of Huesca]], Spain.

Benabarre is the historical and cultural capital of the comarca. It is part of the geo-linguistic area of [[La Franja]], where [[Ribagorçan]] dialect of [[Catalan language|Catalan]] is spoken. In ancient texts it appears as ''Benabarri''.<ref>Antonio María Alcover, [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1919/05/15/004.html «Geografía y estadística de la lengua catalana»], ''ABC'', 15 de mayo de 1919.</ref><ref>Agustín Ubieto Arteta, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OY8JAQAAIAAJ&q=Benabarri ''Toponimia aragonesa medieval''], Valencia, Anubar, 1972. pág2. 55 y 56.</ref>

It is located in the [[Pre-Pyrenees]], 90&nbsp;km from [[Huesca]] and 65&nbsp;km from [[Lleida]], at an altitud of 792 m, in a small [[syncline]] between [[Ésera]] and [[Cajigar]] rivers. Most of the territory, however, belongs to the [[Noguera Ribagorçana]] basin. To the north we find the [[Castillo de Laguarres mountain range]], and to the south we find the [[Montsec Range]]. Through its municipal area runs the [[N-230 road (Spain)|N-230 road]], that connects Lleida and the [[Val d'Aran]].

==History==
It is a very old town, probably the Roman "Bargidum" or "Bargusia", and it is said that it was given to the Arabs taking the name of their first lord Aben Avarre.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pueblos de Aragón: Paterna|url=http://www.temprado.org/Aragon.htm|last=Temprado Ordíaz|first=Santiago|publisher=Ed. Alcañiz|pages=230|language=es|date=1993|access-date=2020-06-24|archive-date=2016-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328102253/http://temprado.org/Aragon.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was conquered from Islam around the year [[1062]] (although there is no document proving the exact date). What leaves no doubt is that it was conquered by [[Ramiro I of Aragon]] for the [[Kingdom of Aragon]] within the same military campaign in which he conquered, immediately north of the town, the places of [[Luzás]], [[Viacamp y Litera]], [[Tolva (Huesca)|Tolva]], [[Laguarres]] and [[Lascuarre]], and to the south of the town, but north of Purroy and Caserras, the lands of Falces, Falcibus, from one of whose houses and its alloys, the king granted a franchise to Agila de Falces and brothers on February 1, 1067 (as documented on that date).<ref>{{cite book |title=Historia de Aragón, la formación territorial|last=Ubieto Arteta|first=Antonio|publisher=Anubar|pages=51–52|language=es|year=1981|isbn=9788470131813}}</ref>

Traditionally, Benabarre was the capital of the historic [[County of Ribagorza]], which was more expansive in territory than today, and included the [[Catalonia/Comarques|comarca]] of [[Alta Ribagorça]], now in the province of [[Lleida (province)|Lleida]], [[Catalonia]]. It was during the [[Peninsular War|Spanish War of Independence]], from 1808 to 1814, that the [[Napoleonic Wars|French Napoleonic]] troops, in retaliation against the inhabitants of Benabarre, decided to make [[Graus]] the capital of the comarca. Ever since, Benabarre ceased to be the administrative capital, but it is still the most important cultural and historical center of the region. During the [[First Carlist War]] (1833–1840) it was one of the towns that suffered the most from those in the province of Huesca.

== Administration ==
=== List of the last mayors of Benabarre ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Period !! Mayor !! Party
|-
| 1979–1981 || Bienvenido Luis Almuzada Tarroc || rowspan="2" |[[Independent politician|Ind.]] || rowspan="2" style="width: 5px" bgcolor=white align=center |
|-
|1981–1983
|José Antonio Ballarín Pociello<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/es/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-/cargos_representativos/30_aniversario.html|title=Treinta aniversario de las primeras elecciones municipales de la democracia|access-date=March 6, 2014|author=Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas (Gobierno de España)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306230615/http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/es/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-/cargos_representativos/30_aniversario.html|archive-date=March 6, 2014}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 1983–1987 || rowspan="5" |Manuel Jaraiz Canfranc <ref name="web.archive.org">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907160459/http://www.mpt.gob.es/areas/politica_local/alcaldes_2011/parrafo/00/document_es/Aragon.pdf Alcaldes de Aragón de las elecciones de 2011]</ref><ref name="heraldo.es">{{cite journal |journal=Heraldo.es |url=http://www.heraldo.es/noticias/aragon/huesca_provincia/2015/06/14/alcaldes_todos_los_municipios_provincia_huesca_366896_1101026.html |title=Alcaldes de todos los municipios de la provincia de Huesca |date=14 June 2015 }}</ref> || rowspan=4 | [[Socialists' Party of Aragon|PSOE]] || rowspan=4 style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#FF0000 align="center" |
|-
| 1987–1991 
|-
| 1991–1995 
|-
| 1995–1999 
|-
| 1999–2003 ||[[Aragonese Party|PAR]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-/datos_legislaturas_1979_2015.html | title = Base de datos de Alcaldes. Elecciones 1979-2015. | author = Secretaría de Estado para las Administraciones Territoriales (Ministerio de la Presidencia y para las Administraciones Territoriales, Gobierno de España) | date = May 6, 2018 | access-date = May 6, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180419013612/http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-/datos_legislaturas_1979_2015.html | archive-date = April 19, 2018 }}</ref> || style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#FFCC66 align=center |
|-
| 2003–2007 || rowspan=5 | Alfredo Sancho Guardia<ref name="web.archive.org"/><ref name="heraldo.es"/> || rowspan=5 | [[Socialists' Party of Aragon|PSOE]] || rowspan=5 style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#FF0000 align="center" |
|-
| 2007–2011
|-
| 2011–2015
|-
| 2015–2019
|-
| 2019–
|}

=== Electoral results ===
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto"
|-
| colspan="9" width="600px" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" |{{center|'''Local elections'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://servicios.aragon.es/aeaw/processSelect.do |title=Archivo Electoral de Aragón |access-date=August 13, 2012  |last=Gobierno de Aragón }}</ref>}}
|- bgcolor="#D8D8D8"
| '''Party'''
| align="right" | '''2003'''
| align="right" | '''2007'''
| align="right" | '''2011'''
| align="right" | '''2015'''
| align="right" | '''2019'''
|-
| bgcolor="#FF4500" | '''[[Socialists' Party of Aragon|PSOE]]'''
| bgcolor="#FF6347" align="right" | 3
| bgcolor="#FF6347" align="right" | 6
| bgcolor="#FF6347" align="right" | 5
| bgcolor="#FF6347" align="right" | 4
| bgcolor="#FF6347" align="right" | 6
|-
| bgcolor="#1E90FF" | '''[[People's Party of Aragon|PP]]'''
| bgcolor="#87CEFA" align="right" | -
| bgcolor="#87CEFA" align="right" | 2
| bgcolor="#87CEFA" align="right" | 3
| bgcolor="#87CEFA" align="right" | 4
| bgcolor="#87CEFA" align="right" | 3
|-
| '''Aragón Sí Puede'''
|
|
|
| align=right | 1
| align=right | -
|-
| bgcolor="#FFCC66" | '''[[Aragonese Party|PAR]]'''
| bgcolor="#FFCC66" align="right" | 3
| bgcolor="#FFCC66" align="right" | -
|
| bgcolor="#FFCC66" align="right" | -
|
|-
| bgcolor="#99CC66" | '''[[Chunta Aragonesista|CHA]]'''
| bgcolor="#99CC66"  align="right" | 3
| bgcolor="#99CC66"  align="right" | 1
| bgcolor="#99CC66"  align="right" | 1
|
|
|-
| bgcolor="#aaaFF" | '''[[Democratic Convergence of La Franja|CDF]]'''
|
|
| bgcolor="#aaaaFF" align="right" | -
|
|
|- bgcolor="#EEEEEE"
| '''''Total'''''
| align="right" | '''''9'''''
| align="right" | '''''9'''''
| align="right" | '''''9'''''
| align="right" | '''''9'''''
| align="right" | '''''9'''''
|}

==Geography==
===Population centers of the municipality===
* [[Aler (Benabarre)|Aler]]. Term added to Benabarre before 1930. Located at 669 meters of altitude and in the basin of the [[Ésera]] river.<ref>{{Cite GREC|aler-0|title=Aler}}</ref> To the northwest of the place is the [[hermitage of Nuestra Señora de las Ventosas]].<ref>{{Cite GREC|les-ventoses-0|title=les Ventoses}}</ref>
* [[Entença (town)|Entença]]. Located on the left bank of the [[Cajigar]] river. It belongs to Benabarre since 1974. The castle of the town was the origin of the [[Entença Barony]].<ref>{{Cite GREC|entenca-0|title=Entença}}</ref>
* Benabarre (capital of the municipality).<ref>{{Cite GREC|benavarri|title=Benavarri}}</ref> (Its streets maintain a medieval structure). Located 1&nbsp;km to the north is the old Dominican [[Monastery of Our Lady of Linares]].<ref>{{Cite GREC|llinars-1|title=Llinars}}</ref>
* [[Caladrones]]. It is located on a hill on the left bank of the [[Río Guart]]. From the old Castle of Caladrones only the tower remains. In 1974, the municipal term of Caladrones along with its towns: Caladrones, Ciscar and Entença, was annexed to the one of Benabarre.<ref>{{Cite GREC|calladrons|title=Calladrons}}</ref>
* [[Castilló del Pla]]. Located at the foot of the [[Corrodella range]], at 762 meters of altitude. Previously it was part of the municipality of Pilzán.<ref>{{Cite GREC|castillo-del-pla|title=Castilló del Pla}}</ref>
* [[Ciscar]]. Located at 591 meters of altitude on the right bank of the Cajigar river.<ref>{{Cite GREC|siscar|title=Siscar}}</ref>
* [[Estaña]]. It is located at 716 meters of altitude in the mountains that separate the Guart River and the waters of "La Sosa" ([[Cinca (Spain)|Cinca river]]).<ref>{{Cite GREC|estanya|title=Estanya}}</ref>
* [[Pilzán]]. At 905 meters of altitude above sea level. Until 1972 it was an independent municipality. The population entities that included the term were: Estaña, Castilló del Pla, the depopulated of Penavera i Cabestany,<ref>{{Cite GREC|cabestany|title=Cabestany}}</ref> and la quadra d'Andolfa.<ref>{{Cite GREC|pilza|title=Pilzà}}</ref>
* [[Purroy de la Solana]]. Located above the ravine "El Molí". Independent term until 1974.<ref>{{Cite GREC|purroi|title=Purroi}}</ref> The municipality included the hermitage of ''Nuestra Señora del Pla''.<ref>{{Cite GREC|el-pla-21|title=el Pla}}</ref>

==Local festivities==
* [[June 8th]], [[Medardus|Saint Medard]]: patron festivities.
** The most remarkable act is the ''pastorada'' between the master and the ''ramadá'' (shepherd), and the typical dance ''[[El ball dels palitrocs]]''. It is also held the ''Baixada de Carricotxes'', a float ornament contest.
* [[August]]
**''[[Ball dels Salvatges]]'': Recently recovered representation. It is a type of theater with a series of dances starring men of different social status, whose purpose is to conquer a lady. Since 2010 it is a biennial representation.
**The summer carnival is held on the third weekend of August.

Its Holy Week procession is also well known in the Ribagorza, unusual in this sense because the Romans who lead the procession have little to do with the Romans that we can all know, it is a Roman costume with influences of a Renaissance soldier, a complete visual delight for tourists who want to stop and watch this procession on Holy Friday at 10pm from the Our Lady of Valdeflores church square.

==Patrimony==
[[File: Iglesia de Benabarre.jpg | thumbnail|200px | Castillo de Benabarre.]]
* The [[Castle of Benabarre|Castle of the Counts of Ribagorça]], from the X-XI centuries.<ref name=rib>{{cite web|url=http://www.ribagorza.com/asp/pueblosdetalle.asp?ID=37 |title=Benabarre / Benavarri |author=ribagorza.com |access-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716161703/http://www.ribagorza.com/asp/pueblosdetalle.asp?ID=37 |archive-date=July 16, 2014 }}</ref>
* 19th century parish church.<ref name=rib />
* Medieval historical center.
* Hermitage of Saint Medard.<ref name=rib />
* Flour mill.
* Ice well.
* 1932 oil mill.
* 13th century public laundry

Also noticeable are the Hermitage of Santa Maria of Caladrones and the Hermitage of San Salvador of Entença, as well as churches of Saint Romanus of Estaña, Saint Stephen of Estaña, Saint James of Entença, Saint Anne of Caladrones, Santa María of Aler, Saint Cristopher of Ciscar and Saint Michael of Ciscar.

==Illustrious Benabarrenses==
* [[Juan de Aragón y de Jonqueras, 2nd count of Ribagorza|Juan II de Ribagorza]] (or Juan de Aragón): count of Ribagorza, lieutenant of Catalonia and viceroy of Naples (1457–1528)
* [[Pedro García de Benavarre]]: Gothic painter (15th century)
* [[Juan Bayarte Calasanz y Ávalos]]: Governor of [[Menorca]] and [[Ibiza]] in the 17th century <ref>{{Cite book|last=Espino López|first=Antonio|title=Don Juan Bayarte Calasanz y Avalos (1622-1689)|publisher=Cossetania Edicions|year=2009|isbn=9788497914734}}</ref>
* [[Jaume Santiveri i Piniés]]: businessman, founder of [[Santiveri]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-13|title=Jaume Santiveri, el pioner de l'alimentació natural|url=https://beteve.cat/va-passar-aqui/jaume-santiveri/|access-date=2020-06-24|website=betevé|language=ca}}</ref>

== Twinned towns ==

* {{Flag|France}}, [[Aurignac]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-24|url=http://www.femp.es/files/566-1113-archivo/LISTADO%20HERMANAMIENTOS%20CON%20EUROPA.pdf|access-date=2020-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424140032/http://www.femp.es/files/566-1113-archivo/LISTADO%20HERMANAMIENTOS%20CON%20EUROPA.pdf|archive-date=2014-04-24}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of municipalities in Huesca]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080328233514/http://www.dphuesca.es/index.php/mod.entidades/mem.detalle/identidad.46/relcategoria.205/idmenu./chk.d72b9443507267db75dce27f9c937270.html Benabarre on Diputación de Huesca]

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