Walk around Sopeira

Sopeira is a beautiful town nestled on the eastern fringe of the Ribagorza Lleida bordering the banks of the Noguera-Ribagorzana.
In this municipality includes the villages of Aulet, and Pallerol Santoréns. The beauty of the surrounding environment, with the gorges of scale and prey of the same name a few yards makes it a must-see destination.

In the pier area is a recreational sports center.

Check its streets as their homes are tailored to the characteristics of this area of ​​the Pyrenees, emphasizing above all the parish church building known as the Monastery of Alaón. Impressive XI century Romanesque work though Visigothic origins. Currently only kept the parish building of the village is the masterpiece of Romanesque Ribagorzana being declared a National Monument in 1931. The church has influenced your style check on Lombard Romanesque structure. To this we owe the checkerboard frieze that preserves in its walls. It has a basilica with three naves topped with apses, with the wider central and high barrel-vaulted cruciform columns and divide it into six sections. The whole structure of the building stands on a solid floor built with river stones in the form of hexagonal rose. Under the altar is a crypt that probably belonged to the old Visigoth basilica.

From the Monastery of Alao part a path beside the river that leads over a bridge to the foot of the dam. It also borders the swamp walk allowing admire the scenery from their viewpoints.

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