Sesa, Spain
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Sesa is a municipality located in the
Hoya de Huesca Hoya de Huesca/Plana de Uesca is a comarca (administrative subdivision) in the province of Huesca (Spain). * Capital city: Huesca, also the biggest of the 40 municipalities of the comarca. * Surface: 2,525.60 km². * Population: 60,525 (2002 ...
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- ...
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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 A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
the municipality has a population of 225 inhabitants. Its postal code is 22110. There is a church in Sesa, the church of San Juan Bautista, and the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Jarea is also found in the village. Both date back to the 12th century. There is an
ancient Iberian The Iberians (, from , ''Iberes'') were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BC. They are described in Greek and Roman sources (among others, by Hecataeus of Miletu ...
archaeological site at a place known as "El Portillo", located within Sesa's
municipal territory Municipal territory (in Spanish: ''término municipal''), ''ejido'' or municipal radius is the territory over which the administrative action of a local government (city council or municipality) extends. Spain A municipal territory (in Spanis ...
. In the Middle Ages there was an important castle in Sesa.Ubieto Arteta, Antonio (1985). ''Historia de Aragón''. Los pueblos y los despoblados II. Zaragoza: Anúbar


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List of municipalities in Huesca This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. F ...


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External links


Sesa official Site
* auto Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub