Bárcabo, one of the most important villages in this area, at a height of 713 m. it is located in the middle of the upper valley of the Vero, a region of good agricultural land use.
“El Barranco de la Fuente” (Spring Ravine) divides the village in two areas: Santa Barbara Quarter in the left bank, and The Church Quarter in the right bank. The second one is the most populated and there we find the most interesting buildings: the Church of San Miguel, devoted to Santa Cecilia, was in origin Romanesque; next to the cemetery, there are remains of the ancient castle; the” Casa del Lugar” (Local House) preserves one of the best traditional hearths of Viello Sobrarbe, and the paved dining room, with its date engraved (S.XVII). The “Casa Lueza” is a very remarkable house; attract the attention too the archaeological sites of Huerto Raso and some traditional houses.
Both quarters are connected by a footpath that crosses the ravine by the church and that allows an easy access through the hillsides of the ravine.
From the ravine head flows the spring that supplies the village; it is well preserved too the trough for the animals.
It is known that in 1142, Bárcabo belonged to don García and that between 1285 and 1291, King Alfonso III de Aragon sold the village to Alfonso de Castronovo.
The village heraldry arms consist of a gules field and a castellated wall on the shield.
Lueza House
Although it has been altered, the building conserves part of the traditional houses structure in this area: barrel vaulted wine cellar, main room with bedrooms, boulders paving with geometric motifs (XVIIth century) and ancient campaign hearth.
Santa Cecilia Church
Although of Romanesque origin, it has suffered deep transformations, especially during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
The current entry is in the ancient head of the church through an atrium to the feet of the tower.
The original access to this church, in the south wall, is blocked up today and in the present head (on the west) we can see a small Chi-Rho, out of position and reused. The church is of rectangular plan with only one nave, opened chapels and a high choir to the feet, on a segmental arch.
The church and chapels are made of stone masonry.
The tower, a work of the XVIIIth century, is built in brick on a stone masonry base; it is of octagonal plan and it rises in the area that previously was occupied by the Romanesque apse.
“Huerto Raso” Archaeological site
So it is named the cave located in Lecina, in the river bed of Vero, roughly four kilometres downstream towards Alquézar.Huerto Raso is in a Vero canyon, very close to some rock shelters and caves (Fajana de Pera, Escaleretas, Gallinero, etc.) with schematic rock paintings.
The “Covacho de Huerto Raso”, is made up of only one room level with hearths, traditional of the Neolithic Age (its materials are preserved in the Museo Provincial de Huesca).
There were found diverse Neolithic remains: sílex made triangle of concave base, fragments of printed ceramics and a sandstone plaque decorated with rectilinear engravings.
Archaeological evidences have been found in other rock shelters of the region, from the late Neolithic Age or from the early stages of Metals Ages.
Virgen de la Sierra Chapel
2 km to the north of the village, on a hill, it is located this chapel of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century.
It consists of rectangular room with a voussoir door to the feet in the west side.
From the chapel we can contemplate unique views and panoramas.
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