Betlan () is a village located in the municipality of
Vielha e Mijaran
Vielha e Mijaran () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in central Val d'Aran, Aran, Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest municipality of the region, with a population of . It is part of the Terçon, terçons of Castièro and Mar ...
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Val d'Aran
Aran (; ; ) (often known as the Aran Valley, or Val d'Aran in Aranese Occitan; in other forms of Occitan: ''Vath d'Aran'' or ''Vau d'Aran'', in Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', in Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an autonomous administrative entity (form ...
) included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
Description
The town of Betlan, head of the old homonymous municipality of the central sector of the Val d'Aran, is 1047 meters high, in a landing on the right side of the
Garonne
The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ;
or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux †...
, surrounded by fields and meadows. It is one of the smallest nuclei in the Valley, with only 12 h in 1981. The few houses are located around a large square enclosed in the west by the parochial church of San Pedro, one of the oldest religious buildings of the valley, probably from the 11th century, very disfigured by additions and later reforms, preserves the
Romanesque 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 ' ...
.
References
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Populated places in Val d'Aran