Villanúa
Villanúa is a Pyrenean village in Spain in the north of Huesca, in La Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Altitude 953m. and 58,2km2. The village is at the bottom of the Mount Collarada (2886m.) and in 2004 had 381 inhabitants.
It's a tourist locality placed between Jaca and the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún and near to the French border (12km. by the Tunnel of Somport)
To visit: The old centre, the church of San Esteban (with a wooden romanesque image of the Virgin,"Our Lady of the Angels" s.X), the cave of Las Güixas, the railway viaduct,the dolmens,the Chapel of San Juan and the abandonned villages of Cenarbe and Aruej,with its little Romanesque church s.XI, all in a beautiful environment crossed by the Aragon river and the pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela.
The main festivities are September 8 (Virgin's Nativity) and December 26 (San Esteban).
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