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Pedrola is a municipality of Spain, in the province of Zaragoza, Autonomous Community of Aragon. Next to the Ebro river on its right bank and the Jalón influx on its left, it is located in the so-called Ebro Valley Depression.
Its economy is based on industrial activities, especially since the Opel España factory was established in nearby Figueruelas. However, the traditional source of income, agriculture, although its weight has diminished, has remained in force.
Heritage
In Pedrola there are two architectural treasures, such as the Church of Our Lady of the Angels and the Palace of the Dukes of Villahermosa. Both united thanks to Dª Luisa de Borja y Aragón, who in the 16th century ordered a passage from the Palace to the parish church to be made in order to access the church directly from her house.
Her parochial church and the Ducal Palace of Villahermosa were declared a historical-artistic complex by decree in January 1976.
Ducal Palace of Villahermosa
Mponent Aragonese Mudejar style building from the early 16th century, built in brick, from which the large balcony on the main floor and the main door stand out. It belongs to the Duchy of Villahermosa.
In it you can highlight its library and its dance room, as well as the paintings by Roland de Mois (who came to Zaragoza in 1559 in the retinue of the Duke of Villahermosa as his private painter), bronze works by Carderera (copies of the paintings by Roland de Mois in the 19th century), and many more paintings by José Antolínez, Giambattista Tiepolo, Goya (especially his portrait of Ramón Pignatelli, in the palace library), Francisco Bayeu and Sorolla. In addition to period furniture, Sèvres porcelain, Gobelin tapestries and Renaissance coffered ceilings.
Parish of Our Lady of the Angels
The current building is the result of two extensions, in the 16th and 18th centuries, on a building from the 14th century.
The last section of the nave that corresponds to the foot of the building remains from the first building, and part of the door located next to the current one.
Alfonso Felipe de Gurrea y Aragón, began the expansion of the building and was completed by his son Martín de Gurrea y Aragón, fourth Duke of Villahermosa, in the 16th century. At this time, her first wife, Luisa de Borja y Aragón, ordered a passage from the Palace to the parish church to be made in order to access the church directly from her house.
The second extension takes place in the last third of the 18th century, sponsored by Juan Pablo de Aragón-Azlor, 11th Duke of Villahermosa, and his wife Mª Manuela Pignatelli y Gonzaga, and carried out by the architect Juan de Villanueva. In this extension, the transept and head are straight in the direction of the nave, forming a Latin cross with the previous construction. The chapels of the Sacred Heart and the altarpiece of the main altar are painted by Francisco Bayeu, and that of San José, José Beratón, a disciple of the same.
At the foot of the building, on its right side is the square tower, built on a semicircular arch. It has three bodies and at the end of the 19th century, due to the deterioration produced by an electric spark, the old spire was replaced by an octagonal wrought iron body, culminating in a cross and weather vane on an iron sphere.
Cervantes landmark
Miguel de Cervantes reflected in the second part of his Universal Don Quixote de la Mancha his memories, in pen, of his stay in this palace, in this Villa, and that have remained for history, such as the Barataria Island (in the nearby Alcalá), or "Bonavía a stone's throw from the Ducal Palace".
Cervantes met Pedrola around December 30, 1568. He was accompanying the nuncio Giulio Acquaviva, who, commissioned by Pope Pius V, had left Italy on September 19, and who had been in Madrid since October 13.
The nuncio, with his 21 years, was coming to bring condolences to Felipe II, for the death of his son, Prince Carlos, who had died on 07/24/1568, a 23-year-old young man. But, on the dates of his trip from Rome, the third and young wife of Felipe II, Isabel de Valois, will also pass away. It is precisely at the funeral of Isabel de Valois, 22, on October 3, 1568, that Acquaviva will meet and listen to the young 21-year-old poet Miguel de Cervantes. It is 1568.
1568 is a decisive year for the life of Miguel de Cervantes.
He has had a sword duel, near the Palacio de Oriente, with the court painter Antonio de Sigura, for defending the honor of his sister Andrea. He will abandon his studies with López de Hoyos. He prepares the verses in honor of the queen. Possibly he receives a condemnatory sentence for the sword duel, and knowing that the nuncio has a passport and a license to leave Spain and return to Italy (Documentation granted by the king and dated in Aranjuez December 20, 1568), he manages to be part of the entourage of the nuncio to leave Madrid, and passing through Pedrola, go to Rome. According to the royal passport, they have 60 days to leave the territory of the Kingdom of Aragon.
Cervantes met Pedrola in the last days of 1568, accompanying the nuncio and staying in the Palace that Martín de Aragón, IV Duke of Villahermosa, had just embellished. He then met the Duchess, D. Martin's second wife, from 1566, María Pérez de Pomar, (since the first wife Luisa de Borja y Aragón, the holy Duchess, had died in 1560.
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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Death  |
Person ID | Tree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  de Aragón, Jolanda | 19 Jul 1353 | I828209 | savenije |
| 2 | de Aragón, Violante | Aft 19 Jul 1353 | I843944 | savenije |
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