San Juan de Plan

San Juan de Plan (Spanish)
San Chuan de Plan (Chistabin Aragonese)
Country Spain
Autonomous community Aragon
Province Huesca
Municipality San Juan de Plan
Area
  Total 55 km2 (21 sq mi)
Population (2004)
  Total 147
  Density 2.7/km2 (7/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
San Juan de Plan

San Juan de Plan (in Chistabin: San Chuan de Plan[1][2]) is a municipality located northeast of Plan in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 147 inhabitants.

The Romanesque church of the former abbey of San Juan Bautista, for which the community is named, was enlarged in the sixteenth century. The sixteenth-century abbot's house now houses the ethnographic museum.

References

  1. As shown in the Legislative Decree 2/2006, of 27 December, of the Government of Aragon, by the revised text of the Law on Comarcal Demarcation of Aragon is approved.
  2. Toponyms: towns with local name in Aragonese in Great Aragonese Encyclopedia

Coordinates: 42°35′N 0°21′E / 42.583°N 0.350°E / 42.583; 0.350

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