Pedrola - Itinerary Aragón -

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles

City linked to the figure of Luisa de Borja y Aragón, sister of Saint Francisco de Borja.

Pedrola, whose first Roman settlements called it Petraola , due to its stone appearance, was conquered from the Muslims by Alfonso I the Battler in 1119.

After successive owners, the town fell into the hands of Doña María López de Gürrea, one of the women who enriched the Spanish Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Doña María was an important figure for her liaison with the Duke of Villahermosa Juan de Aragón, through which Pedrola became part of the Duchy of Villahermosa under a lordship regime until the 18th century, and under an honorary regime to this day.

In the 16th century, this hereditary lineage transformed the old fortress house into the current palace: its main building, its gardens and orchards, which extend to the current Imperial Canal of Aragon.

Pedrola is linked to the figure of Luisa de Borja y Aragón, sister of Saint Francisco de Borja, known for her religiosity, who received the nickname of the Holy Duchess.

Around 1540 she married Martín de Gurrea y Aragón, future Count of Ribagorza and Duke of Villahermosa, settling in the current palace of the Dukes of Villahermosa and leaving her mark on the works undertaken in the parish church and in the passageway that her husband made build for her between the palace and the church.

Luisa de Borja y Aragón died in Zaragoza on October 4, 1560 and is buried in the parish church of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Pedrola.