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Huesca
Front: Old Monastery’s cloister, San Juan de la Peña
San Pedro el Viejo's capital, Huesca
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Miguel Servet's house, Sigena
The Virgin Nuestra Sra de las Nieves, San Pedro el Viejo, Huesca
Loarre’s cemetery
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INFORMACIÓN GENERAL
ELCOME to Aragon. Do you know where you are? You are
in the Iberian Peninsula’s northeast. Its territory covers an
area of more than 47,500 square kilometers and is made
up of the provinces of Huesca, Saragossa and Teruel. More than
1,200,000 inhabitants live here. They are friendly, noble and close.
The best thing you can do is to get lost in this natural land, full of life
and flavor. It has a border of 136 km with France, so you are in the
central door to Europe from France and Portugal.
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It will take your breath away, but Aragon is a land that breathes
history. If you follow the thousand-year-old marks, you will realize
that, in this community of contrasts, Christians, Jewish and Muslims
have lived together. Get ready because your adventure starts.
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Autumn in the River Arazas, Ordesa
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CULTURe
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UESCA is the province where you will be closer to
touching the stars with your hand. The Aneto,
3,404 m above sea level, is the highest peak of
the Pyrenees. However, it also hobnobs with others such as
the Posets, Maladeta, Perdiguero or Monte Perdido, which is
the biggest limestone mountain in Europe. Does the Ordesa
National Park ring a bell with you? Do not miss it. High up
you will find the snow flower, the edelweiss. Lakes and small
lakes with clean waters, where you will see yourself reflected,
are waiting for you. However, the gems of what was the
Kingdom are the Pyrenean Glacier’s Natural Monuments, ice
masses that remain in spite of the heat’s threat. Live proof of
this province’s beauty.
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With the Romanesque, some buildings like the Jaca’s
Cathedral flourished, which had many followers. Very close,
San Juan de la Peña and San Pedro el Viejo Monasteries, both
pantheons of the Aragon Royal Couple. In addition, in the
Serrablo, churches of Mozarabic influence. Between
Sabiñánigo and Biescas, many art in Larrede, San Bartolomé
de Gavín, Otal, Sarué, Oliván and, right there, the one of San
Juan de Busa. The wonderful Loarre castle, the Alquézar
collegiate church, San Pedro de Siresa or Sigena. Ask about
Roda de Isábena, about Santa Cruz de la Serós church and
about La Virgen de Chalamera chapel. Do not leave without
going for a walk along the streets of Aínsa and Alquézar.
The one that deserves a good walk on foot, riding a bike or a
horse is the Road to Santiago. The Catalan language crosses
part of this province. You have this one of the traditional one,
the French, which crosses the Pyrenees, the better preserved.
You can have a rest in any of the Pilgrim’s Hospitals, get to
know many interesting people and savor landscapes that you
will always keep in your retina.
A flood of clouds in the Pyrenees
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Loarre Castle
Traditional trade, Huesca
The Oza Forest
A long time before becoming a kingdom in the XI century, the
prehistoric men had already left their paintings and buildings.
In Santa Elena, we find a dolmen, a megalithic tomb similar
to other ones in Benasque and Tella, where you will have the
chance to follow the trace of the Cave Bear. The dinosaurs’
trace, in Arén. The Celtiberians dropped by here and the
Romans lived in Villa Fortunatus, in Fraga, or in Labitolosa, in
La Puebla de Castro. Highlanders, who fled from the Arab
conquest, sheltered in the Pyrenean valleys.
Huesca, a history and beauty lesson up to date. From west to east, the
valleys are waiting for you; each one is a different world: Ansó, Hecho,
Aragüés, Aragón, Canfranc, Tena, Broto, Bielsa, Gistaín, Benasque and
Barrabés. All of them are full of histories and legends, of beautiful
proposals that are waiting for you in pairs inside them. In the PrePyrenees, make a note of the Guara Mountain Range and Mallos de
Riglos, reddish giants that make art of the verticality. However, if art
is what you want, the five downhill skiing resorts, ten areas to do
cross-country skiing and all the presents that the nature of Huesca
offers. Lammergeyers, vultures, deer, chamois... All of them are waiting
for you in Lacuniacha, the Fauna Park of the Pyrenees, next to
Piedrafita de Jaca.
With this outlook, who is the one that is not going to embark on this
adventure? Climb a grey wall that whitens in winter, fly through the
bluest sky, and keep afloat in foaming and rough waters, slip in a cold
and dark cave, and wind along the snowed slopes or ride along the
grassland with different shades of green. Huesca has all the colors. If
you close your eyes, the image will turn black. Let yourself be loved in
the spas of Panticosa, Baños de Benasque or Vilas del Turbón When
you regain consciousness, try to go for a walk along its captivating
surroundings or just enjoy the good cooking.
Huesca will know how to win your stomach. To whet your appetite, the
good garden: endive, borage, cardoon and boliches from Embún and
Biescas. For main course, buried rabbit from Monegros, chicken in
tomato and pepper sauce, spicy pork sausage from Binéfar or Graus,
game, trout from the high-mountain rivers or cod cooked with eggs
and garlic. Truffles, fungi and mushrooms. Make room for the desserts:
Strawberries, raspberries, sopetas (peach with wine) and confectionery
straight away: crespillos, Almudévar plait, coc from Fraga, Barbastro
sponge cake, farinosos, Russian cake or marzipan chestnuts from
Huesca, counts, jaqueses and little kisses from Jaca, fig bread from
Bajo Cinca… And all this with the basil aroma, typical from Huesca,
and watered with wines from Somontano.
If you come, you will take delight of the exhibitions and events during
every season. The short movies triumph in Huesca’s Movie Festival,
which also receives the Theatre Fair, music near the water on the
floating scenario of Lanuza “Pirineos Sur”, and the Castle Festival of
Aínsa is much recommended. The one of Mountain Sports is held in
Benasque. The oldest one but very well preserved is the Folk Festival
of Jaca’s Pyrenees, held during the odd years. Fiestas, hubbub in every
spot. If you want some eye-catching ones, the Exaltation of the
Costume of Huesca, the Morisma de Aínsa or the wonderful Carnival
of Bielsa.
You can sleep in a campsite or in a hostel, go for country holidays, stay
in a guesthouse or in the most expensive hotel, or just not to sleep.
Huesca is freedom. It is nature, art and modest people. Live the
adventure of your life. Make up your mind.
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UESCA is as green as basil. It is a modern city but
without forgetting tradition. It is a city where you
can live, without traffic jams, familiar, welcoming,
with students and good professionals.
Cathedral’s altarpiece, Huesca
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San Pedro el Viejo, Huesca
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If you are thinking about paying a visit to it, the legend of the
Bell of Huesca must ring a bell with you. It is mentioned in the
Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña, from the XIV century, and
Casado de Alisal painted it in a canvas, which you can look for in
the city hall. As it seems, Ramiro II el Monje (the Monk),
following a piece of advice that an old master gave him, called
the Court of Huesca with the excuse of designing a bell as big
that it could be heard all over the kingdom. As the disobedient
noblemen arrived, the monarch’s men arrested and beheaded
them.
You will have time to hang around the streets, sit in the
terraces or try its famous confectionery (marzipan chestnuts
and Russian cake) but, before, pay a visit to its Gothic
cathedral, which was built on the previous Arab mosque. Take
a good look at the Main Altarpiece that Damián Forment
sculpted in alabaster, a very Aragonese material. Nearly in
front of it, we find the City Hall, a delightful Renaissance
palace and, very close, in Plaza de la Universidad (University
Sq), the Provincial Museum. You do not have to walk a lot to
get to know San Pedro el Viejo, a Romanesque church that
has the sepulchers of Ramiro II el Monje (the Monk) and
Alfonso I el Batallador (the Battler).
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Do you feel like looking back? Slightly changed, the Ilergetes
already lived there. During the Roman period, the praetor
Sertorio established a Senate and the Sertorian University in
Osca. Strategic city in the Al-Aldalus Marca Superior, it was
besieged by the Christian troops of Sancho Ramírez. Pedro I
defeated the Muslims from Huesca in the battle of Alcoraz in
1096. In 1354, another Pedro, IV, established the most
important university of Aragon.
If you want to see Huesca and the people from Huesca
transforming, you have a meeting in August, the feasts of San
Lorenzo, their patron saint, who died burned at the grate. The
typical, typical, the dance of Los Danzantes the tenth (during
the day) and the presenting of flowers and fruits to the saint
as Offering the fifteenth. During the night, the music and the
happiness seize everyone who comes here. On April 23, San
Jorge, Aragon’s Day, people go on pilgrimage to a chapel. The
Holy Week is lived in the streets with fervor. Do not hesitate.
Let yourself be captivated by Huesca.
San Pedro el Viejo’s cloister
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ET ready to go deep into La Hoya de Huesca, the
central part of the Somontano of Huelva, at the
foot of the exterior Pyrenean mountain ranges.
You will be marveled at all the things it offers you within a
radius of thirty minutes by car. You can also go all over it in
a charming bus registered in 1913 that travels at 40 kp/h and
which leaves at nine in the morning from Plaza de Navarra
(Navarra Sq) in Huesca. All by itself offers routes bubbling
over with culture, good food and natural landscapes such as
the Roldán Falls or cultural like the church of Santiago, in
Agüero, which is wider than it is long as they run out of
money during its construction.
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You can travel, for instance, to the Middle Ages, heading for
the Loarre castle. Heading towards Eyerbe, where you should
try the flan cakes, and taking the turning to Esquedas, you
will arrive at this incredible fortress, just after crossing Bolea.
In this village, buy cherries if they are in season and visit its
collegiate church.
Bolea collegiate church
Do you fancy the mountain? Follow the north on the compass
and you will arrive at Arguis, where you will be able to relax
to the beat of the waters of its reservoir or come closer to the
Águila peak. Continue up to Belsué, go past two inhabited
hamlets and you will arrive at Nocito. Enjoy its unforgettable
panoramic views.
Loarre Castle
Casbas Monastery
When you are on your way toward the Somontano, land of
good wines, stop at Siétamo, where some remains of the
Conde Aranda castle and the washhouse fountain still survive.
Look for the charms, breads and sweets from Angüés and
Casbas, the cheese of Sieso and the art of Ibieca and Liesa.
Now follow the Romans steps along the Lata road, toward
Somport. You will be met by birds and cereal fields. Gaze at
the Romanesque of Gurrea de Gállego and gorge yourself on
Almudévar plait. Alcalá de Gurrea or the Sotonera reservoirs
are just around the corner.
In Ayerbe, you will breathe the same air that Ramón y Cajal
breathed. Go to his house, to the streets along which he
walked, to the church and to the palace. Follow the route
until you be in the shade of the impressive Mallos de Riglos,
surrounded by the River Gállego, with a large number of birds
of prey as witnesses. Do not get tired of looking at.
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OU will feel like a jeweler surrounded by so many
jewels. Go deep into a precipitous mountain
range where the natural and cultural landscapes
go hand in hand. In the Guara Mountain Range and Canyon
Park, the rivers Vero, Alcanadre, Flumen and Guatizalema, in
order to come out to the Ebro valley, have dug some fanciful
gullies where our ancestors sheltered from the cold with art.
For them it would just be a way to pass the time or to
experiment with but thanks to that, nowadays, there remain
sixty shelters, which have cave paintings given the status of
World Heritage Sites that make up the River Vero Cultural
Park. Nowadays, the canyons are real museums and a paradise
for those risk lovers.
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Stop off at Alquézar. A beautiful story-like place with a
collegiate church, a walled building and the remains of an old
Muslim castle. Interpretation centers, adventure offers and
pleasant walks along its impeccable and even streets, thanks
to the good savoir-faire of its kind inhabitants.
If you want to discover all the charms of the Somontano, you
have to immerse yourself in the enological tourism, yes, yes,
the one of the wines. You can visit the wineries of this
guarantee of origin. They are so close to each other that, if
you dare to, you can do it walking while you enjoy a journey
riddled with vines and groves. If their proposals intoxicate
you, then you do not need to take the car.
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Barbastro Cathedral
Barbastro is the natural access door to the Guara Mountain
Range. With its cathedral, the Baselga house, the palace of
Argensola and the Episcopal. On your way to Graus, famous
for its spicy pork sausage, you will find two medieval bridges.
Close, the Torreciudad sanctuary, a must-see stop of the
Marian Route.
Alquezar collegiate church
Cave paintings in el Vero
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EADY to go deep into the Aragonese desert? Far from finding
sand and few more, with a bit of imagination, your visit to
Monegros will become an unforgettable experience. In order
to arrive here, you have to drive along the Huesca divided highway until
Almudévar, where you will take the turning to the A-1210 road. You will
arrive at Tardienta, which is a synonymous with true adventure.
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La Cartuja de Monegros Monastery
In Tardienta Monegros, you only need to choose. A pleasant ride in a
camel or a daring ride in a combine harvester, flights in an ultralite,
play paintball, rides in old motorbikes… And this is only the beginning.
You can sleep in a jaima (a tent that the nomads of northern Africa
used) or in a hotel dug out of the rock. Not far from there, La Gabarda
Park is a dream came true, especially for the kids and the youngest.
Emulating Tarzan, you can go all over that greener and rockier area
with the tress at your foot. It is not necessary that you fly; you can use
the flying foxes, mazes and rope bridges.
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Become imbued with the landscape, follow the trace of the birds and,
in Sigena, birthplace of Miguel Servet, pay a visit to its RomanesqueGothic monastery. Monegrizate yourself!
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OU are going to enter the end of the Cinca meadow, in the
boundaries of the Huesca province to Lérida. You will find
many family houses, rustic and authentic villages such as
Albate de Cinca or Chalamera, birthplace of the writer Ramón J.
Sender, in an area where there is no shortage of towers and medieval
castles. The Roman memory survives in Fraga, where Villa Fortunatus
opens its doors loaded with important remains and mosaics. In Fraga,
also pay a visit to the Romanesque church, which was restored during
the Renaissance.
rock and in the Sosa siphon, in La Almunia de San Juan. You can fly in
an ultralite in Alcolea or in a quad, if you leave Fonz. Riding a horse, a
bicycle or walking, you are going to love this land of gardens, fruit
tress, hills and ripas such as the one of Alcolea, with attractive
chimneys full of birds of prey.
In the Cinca Medio region, Monzón calls the tune, birthplace of the
illustrious Aragonese Joaquín Costa and of the tennis player Conchita
Martínez. Passing place, it keeps the trail of many people and cultures
that have left their trace.
The castle was the see of the Templars and hospitable and, nowadays,
it continues lifted up in the hill where it was established between the
X and XIII centuries. It shares the prominence with the cathedral and
the city hall. The fight for water is shown in the wells dug out of the
Sigena Monastery
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La Litera is a border and fight-for-water land, as the wells of the areas
of Albelda, San Esteban and Tamarite show. Ice wells are still preserved
in Zurita, Calasanz, Camporrells and Peralta. Here, there is also a saladwater spring and a saltmine. For this reason, this town is called Peralta
de la Sal. There are prehistoric, Roman and Iberian remains and also
medieval sowed everywhere, but there is also room for olive tress,
almonds, cereal, maize, alfalfa and vegetable garden. A land that has a
deeply rooted language and traditions, such as the dance of
Camporrels, the flower carpets of Tamarite or la Festa del Tossino de
Albelda. Moreover, of course, a land of open-air action around the
Santa Ana reservoir, on foot or in the air going paragliding. And, for the
stomach, try the Recao de Binéfar. That do is a pleasant adventure.
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O not make them wait. Look for them. From Huesca, along
the Monrepós Mountain Pass, just before arriving at Jaca,
take the turning to Puente La Reina in order to go deep
into the westerner valleys of the Aragonese Pyrenees, the greener and
fresher ones. In Embún, get your strength back eating boliches, as you
have to go along Hecho, Ansó, Siresa, Jasa, Aísa and Aragüés del
Puerto. Paved villages with a sturdy architecture and noble people.
Many devote themselves to traditional works, heirs to a history and
customs of places where the nature rules and the man obeys. And this
has been this way since the prehistoric men left their megalithic
monuments, as well as more that two hundred stone circles that take
up the Corona de los Muertos (The Death’s Crown), in the Oza Forest.
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Find the Hidden Valley (Valle Escondido), the one of Aragüés del Puerto
and the one of Jasa, full of ad-like forests such as the wallcreeper, the
ptarmigan, the stoat or birds of prey like the goshawk or the
sparrowhawk. Make a note of the cross-country skiing slopes from
Lizara, where you can also climb on ice, Linza and Gabardito, or enroll
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San Pedro de Siresa Monastery
Typical Costumes of Huelva
for ski mountaineering along the Bisaurín, the Bozo or the Foratón.
Climb in Peña Forca. The paradise is waiting for you in the small lakes
of Acherito and Estanés, Boca del Infierno, the Oza Forest or Aguas
Tuertas. Fishing, hunting, mycology or walks along the nature,
everything with its own personality.
In Hecho, the inhabitants still speak cheso and take care of their music,
their dances and their costume of yesteryear. The same happens in
Ansó, where, until some years ago, some inhabitants used it as the
usual clothing. Today, they celebrate the Exaltation of the Costume of
Huesca Take a good look at the red roofs crowned by the chamineras,
chimneys that can reach four meters high in a shameless challenge
against the law of gravity.
Do not get worked out and have a look out the Romanesque of the
Siresa Monastery and the smooth valley of Zuriza, from which you can
arrive at the lands of the Roncal from Navarre. Look for them and find
them.
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OU can touch the sky going up the Tobazo in
Candanchú in a chair lift or to the lakes in Astún,
climbing peaks of more than three thousand
meters high like the Aspe, Balaitus or Vignemale or taking off
from Santa Cilia aerodrome. You can also come closer to it
covering part of the Road to Santiago, from Somport to Jaca,
where a cathedral pioneer in sculpting the Jaca’s checker
pattern is waiting for you.
Fisrt Friday of May, Jaca
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Known as the Pearl of the Pyrenees, Jaca, in the shade of the
Oroel Mountain, is a city opened to the world as the Folk
Festival of the Pyrenees shows, full of proposals like the
Summer Courses of the University, with tapas and cakes that
invite you to go to rack and ruin. A place where you will feel
comfortable and integrated since the first minute.
Do not leave without skating in its bright ice rink. In the road
from Somport, you will pass past Canfranc with its impressive
International Train Station, an ad-like building that was
inaugurated in 1928, live history. Also, ask about the Torreta
de Fusilería (The Rifle Fire Turret) Soon afterwards, you will
arrive at Villanúa, where you should pay a visit to Las Guisas
caves. It is said that the witches got together in this place to
hold the witches’ Sabbath. By the way, one of the most
considerable bat colonies of Alto Aragon inhabits them.
Leaving these charming little animals aside, Castiello de Jaca
is an entrance door to the Nature Reserve and Preserve of La
Garcipollera. Visit the monastery of San Juan de la Peña and
Santa Cruz de la Serós. All the villages and people that come
toward you have something special by nature. Make a good
use of every minute.
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Formigal
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RICK up your ears in order not to miss a single detail of the
Tena Valley. If you do not do it, you will regret it. If you
leave Huesca, some sixty kilometers away is located
Sabiñánigo. At this point, you can digress in order to visit the
Pirenarium, the Pyrenees’ Theme Park. Aragon in a bird’s eye view, a
world to meet your requirements where all the areas and places of our
geography are recreated in detail. When you leave, you will be at the
entrance of the Tena Valley. Romanesque churches with Mozarabic
atoms will splash your route when you pass by beauties like Larrede,
Oliván or Gavín. Gorgeous villages where life is not easy, which are
reluctant to die uninhabited like other villages in the surrounding area.
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From Biescas, pay a visit to the white chapel of Santa Elena or to the
Búbal holiday center. What else can you ask for if you like delighting
your eyes or doing water sports!
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area in other periods. Hoz de Jaca and Tramacastilla, towns with flavor
(in every sense), look at the slender silhouette that Peña Telera traces
in the sky, surrounded by peaks, small lakes and wonderful gullies.
Toward the bottom of the valley, Escarrilla, Panticosa, Sallent de
Gállego and the downhill skiing resorts of Formigal and Panticosa (also
cross-country skiing) and the spa, a small gem buried deep in one of
the most impressive glacial circles of the Pyrenees. In spite of the cold
of the mountains, natural hot water springs flow. Take your time and
have a good bath, enjoy a comforting walk or go for a ride in the lake’s
boats. Very close, the spectacular small lakes of Azules and Bachimaña.
Moreover, if you want to put it to music, in Lanuza’s floating scenario,
a beautiful village that its former inhabitants are getting back, every
summer the “Pirineos Sur” festival is held.
In Piedrafita, in the shade of La Partacua, some nice lodgers live, in the
Fauna Park of Lacuniacha. A summary of the animals that dwelled this
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HAPE, color, life. Did you know that the park has
the highest calcareous massif of Europe? It is the
Monte Perdido, 3,355 m above sea level. At the
foot of it, the valleys of Ordesa, Añisclo, Escuaín and Pineta
stretch out, along which the rivers Arazas, Bellos, Yaga and
Cinca flow. Two glaciers still survive. It is the nature’s doing.
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The mineral and vegetable color is added to the shape, among
which the fauna is camouflaged. Grey colors on the top that
become green, ocher or white as the seasons go by. In this
paradise, a wide variety of microclimates coexist, what allow
the existence of nearly one thousand and four hundred plant
species. The lowest kermes oaks, trees strawberry and bush
forests of durillos cede space to the mountain mixed forests
of hazel, poplar, ash, lime, maple and elm trees. You will find
beech forests and wet mossy pine forests of wild pine. These
appear again from one thousand and eight hundred meters
above sea level to turn into high-mountain meadows where
the trees disappear. Just imagine how many animals live
there.
There are visits for everyone. La Cola de Caballo is a famous
and beautiful excursion suitable for everybody, as well as
arriving at La Garganta viewpoint. Another route could be the
old path that linked Torla with Ordesa, or a get away to Los
Llanos La Larri, a cirque of glacial origin, which has privileged
views.
You will find the civilization and many other proposals in the
surrounding villages: Gistaín, San Juan de Plan, Torla, Bielsa,
famous for its carnival, Aínsa, for being a lovely medieval
collection and its festival, Broto, Boltaña or Plan. This last one
is famous because some of its boys organized a women
convoy to find a partner some years ago.
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RE you looking for the highest peaks of Aragon?
They are in La Ribagorza. If you leave Zaragoza, go
toward Huesca, then toward Barbastro but, at the
end of the Olvena Narrow Mountain Pass, follow a turning
that leads to Graus and Benasque. You should realize which
wonders you are going to find at this altitudes. The roof of
this land is the Aneto (3,404 meters). It shares the power with
other massifs that also are very big, among which we should
highlight Maladeta and Llardana, both in the PosetsMaladeta Natural Park, which covers the headquarters of the
rivers Noguera-Ribagorzana, Ésera and Cinqueta. They are
granite mountains bathed by small lakes and glacial lakes
that seem to be real mirrors where the wide forests of black
pines are reflected.
Whatever the season, you can get away to the Cerles ski
resort in order to continue absorbed in a dream full of peaks.
You can do cross-country skiing in Los Llanos del Hospital.
Bicycle, riding a horse, hiking, hang gliding or a good visit to
the Villas del Turbón spa. There are many curiosities in the
valley. Just at the entrance, an old dolmen stands, where the
fist settlers of these mountains were buried. Between
Castejón de Sos and Seira, take a breath to go along the
amazing precipices of the Ventamillo narrow mountain pass.
Only there, a protected thousand-year-old plant grows. With
small and white leaves, its name is Petrocopsis pseudoviscosa.
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If you here somebody speaking Catalan or a mix of Aragonese
and Catalan, do not get frightened, you have not moved to
another Community. In Aragon, you can here people speaking
cheso, ansotano, chistabino, fobano or, in Benasque, patués.
Has not this land surprised you again?
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Every village you pass past has its own charm. In Benasque,
ask for the palace of the Ribagorza counts, the River Martial
house, Juste, Faure, Santa María la Mayor church…and enjoy
the whole tourist offer.
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where the illustrious Aragonese Joaquín Costa
was born and died. Get your strength back eating
the exquisite spicy pork sausage of this land. The NogueraRibagorzana valley goes to Benabarre, where you can go for a
walk to see its castle and the urban area. In Tolva and Luzás,
pay a visit to their churches. Montañana is a medieval-style
hamlet and, in Arén, they boast about its beautiful urban
collection, about the dinosaur’s tracks and about a pair of
dolmens that are close, the Cabañeta del Fornó and the
Tancat. Get your neoprene ready as you are coming closer to
the Escales dam.
ibagorzana
and of
Roda de Isábena
Obarra Monastery
i
You do not need it to see the Alaón monastery, but you will
need it when you embark on a nautical adventure in the
reservoirs and marshes of Barasona, Escales, Canelles and
Santa Ana.
From Graus, going past Capella and Lascuarre, the heart of the
Isábena valley will captivate you. Beautiful landscapes and the
incredible Romanesque church of Roda de Isábena, where you
will be able to get your strength back in its guesthouse. You
will need them to enjoy the Obarra monastery, which has the
same name that the narrow mountain pass where it is located.
If you cross it, you will arrive at Bonansa, where you will find
the San Aventín chapel, which has a primitive Romanesque
style. Are you going to miss it?
Bridge over the River Isábena
Turbón from Campo
alleys
FEAST DAYS TOURIST INTEREST
OF
AÍNSA
ALBELDA
ALMUDÉVAR
ANSÓ
BARBASTRO
La Morisma. Closest Sunday to September 14th (odd
years).
Festa del Tossino. four Sunday of January.
Feasts in honor of la Virgen de la Corona. From
September 7th to September 12th.
The Typical Costume of Huesca Day. Last Sunday of
August.
Holy Week and “El Sitio de Barbastro” (at the end of
August-biennially).
FRAGA
GRAUS
HUESCA
JACA
La Faldeta Day. April 23rd.
Feasts of Santo Cristo and San Vicente Ferrer From
September 12th to September 15th (La Mojiganga
the13th).
Holy Week and San Lorenzo (9th to August 15th).
The Folk Festival of the Pyrenees. At the end of July and
at the beginning of August (odd years) and the first
Friday of May.
T
ourist
o
ffices
(open all year round)
Aragón tourism office (OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND)
Avda. César Augusto, 25. Tel. 976 28 21 81. ZARAGOZA
www.turismodearagon.com
PROVINCE
LOCALITY
ADDRESS
Huesca
Huesca
Plaza Catedral, 1
974 29 21 70
Huesca
Abizanda
Entremuro
974 30 03 26
Huesca
Aínsa
Plaza del Castillo. Torre nordeste
974 50 05 12
Huesca
Aínsa
Avda. Pirenaica, 1
974 50 07 67
Huesca
Barbastro
Avda. La Merced, 64
974 30 83 50
Huesca
Benasque
San Sebastián, 5
974 55 12 89
Huesca
Boltaña
Avda. Ordesa, 47
974 50 20 43
Huesca
Canfranc-Estación
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 1
974 37 31 41
Huesca
Formigal
Edificio Almonsa III
974 49 01 96
Huesca
Graus
Fermín Mur y Mur, 25
974 54 61 63
Huesca
Jaca
Avda. Regimiento de Galicia Local 2
974 36 00 98
Huesca
Monzón
Plaza Mayor, 4 (Porches Ayto.)
974 41 77 74
Huesca
Monzón
Castillo de Monzón
974 41 77 91
Huesca
Panticosa
San Miguel, 37
974 48 73 18
Huesca
Sabiñánigo
Plaza de España, 2
974 48 42 00
Huesca
Torreciudad
Santuario de Torreciudad
974 30 40 25
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