Plan is a municipality located in the
Sobrarbe
Sobrarbe is a comarca of Aragon, Spain. It is located in the north of Huesca province, making up part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Many of its people speak the Aragonese language locally known as ''fabla''.
Sobrarbe is a mountainous ...
comarca,
province of Huesca
Huesca (; ), officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca.
Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French departments of Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées- ...
,
Aragon
Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ; ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces of Spain, ...
, Spain. According to the 2010
census
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the municipality has a population of 336 inhabitants, and is the main populated center in the Gistau Valley. Its postal code is 22367.
The
Ibón de Plan or ''Basa de la Mora'' lake is located within its municipal term and is said to be enchanted according to locals.
The village is one of the last places where Chistabino, the local dialect of
Aragonese can be heard.
The "caravan of women"
In 1985, Plan made Spanish news
[Los hijos de la caravana, sin plan](_blank)
'' El Mundo'', 16 January 2005. since local bachelors organized a "
caravan of women" after watching the American 1951 Western ''
Westward the Women''.
At the time, there were over forty single men and just one single woman.
Most of the local women
had emigrated.
An advertisement in the press calling for "women between 20 and 40 with marriage intentions for Pyrenees village" resulted in 33 marriages, revitalizing Plan.
Since then, other villages have organized similar "caravans"
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See also
* Peña Montañesa
* Real Monasterio de San Victorián
* List of municipalities in Huesca
This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain
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References
External links
Bassa de la Mora - Ibon de PlanIbon Basa de la Mora - Ibon de PlanCentre Excursionista de Catalunya Bulletin
Municipalities in the Province of Huesca
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