Gavín ( Aragonese: Gabín) is a Spanish

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situated in the municipality of

Biescas Biescas () is a municipality of northeastern Spain close to the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca. The name seems to provide from the term ''bizka'', which means "hill" in a Proto-Indo-European language. T ...

. (

Alto Gállego Alto Gállego ( Aragonese: ''Alto Galligo'') is a comarca located in the north of the autonomous community of Aragón, Spain. It occupies practically the entirety of the upper basin of the Río Gállego. Historically the comarca was a part of ...

Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...

, Aragon). The locality is at 974 Metres in altitude and is located in the

Tena Valley The Tena Valley is a valley located at the southern side of the Pyrenees, in the Alto Gállego comarca, province of Huesca, and is crossed by the Gállego river from north to south. Its main town is Sallent de Gállego. The valley is surrounded ...

. Its name seems to come from the Latin

anthroponym Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'', 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'', 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and coll ...

''Gapius.''

Demography

In 2019, the population of Gavín was 95, 5 less than the year before. From 2000 to 2019 the population had an increase of 21 people. The peak population of 103 was reached in 2017.

Historic Buildings

Church of Saint Bartholomew

The Church of Saint Bartholomew forms part of the

Serrablo churches The Serrablo Churches (Spanish language, Spanish: Iglesias del Serrablo) (Aragonese language, Aragonese: Ilesias de Sarrablo) are a group of Romanesque architecture, early-romanesque and Mozarabic art and architecture, mozarabic churches located i ...

, it uses early-Romanesque and

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design. The church was thought to have been built in the 10th or 11th century. The building has a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

finished off by an

apse In architecture, an apse (: apses; from Latin , 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek , , 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; : apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical Vault (architecture), vault or semi-dome, also known as an ' ...

, a

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

with

Horseshoe arch The horseshoe arch (; ), also called the Moorish arch and the keyhole arch, is a type of arch in which the circular curve is continued below the horizontal line of its diameter, so that the opening at the bottom of the arch is narrower than the ar ...

ed windows. The church is located north-east of Gavín near the

confluence In geography, a confluence (also ''conflux'') occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel (geography), channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main ...

of Saint Bartholomew and several ravines.

Monastery of Saint Pelagius

The Monastery of Saint Pelagius also forms part of the

, it uses early-Romanesque and

design. The monastery was excavated in 1997 and is hypothesised to have been built in the 10th or 11th century. The excavations conducted found that the monastery had two adjacent churches, a tower, a dormitory and other monastic buildings. The monastery is located on the left bank of the

River Sia A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it run ...

a few kilometres away from Gavín.

Celebrations

* 11 February: Saint William * 26 June: The pilgrimage to the monastery of Saint Pelay * 24, 25, 26 August: Saint Bartholomew * 24 August: The celebration of the religious pilgrimage made by Saint Bartholomew

References

{{reflist Populated places in the Province of Huesca