Heritage towns in Huesca
14 towns in this province.
A medieval fortress town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, where a castle and Romanesque collegiate church rise above the confluence of two rivers on the route to the high mountain passes of Huesca.
A hilltop village in Huesca whose very name echoes its Arabic and fortress past, sitting above a river gorge with a collegiate church consecrated in 1099 and a castle that once guarded the frontier between Muslim and Christian Aragón.
A Pyrenean stone village in Huesca, Aragón, where narrow medieval passageways thread between ancient houses and bears still roam the surrounding mountains.
A cathedral city on the Camino de Santiago in Huesca, Aragón, where the founding betrothal of the Crown of Aragón was signed and George Orwell recovered from a war wound among its riverside streets.
A mountain valley town in Huesca where the Crown of Aragon was born, the river Aragón Subordán runs past megalithic monuments and a surviving Romanesque monastery church that once housed 150 monks.
The first Romanesque cathedral in Spain, a complete Renaissance citadel, and a position astride the Camino de Santiago at the foot of the Pyrenean pass of Somport make Jaca one of Aragón's most historically layered towns.
A high Pyrenean town in Huesca, Aragón, where a Romanesque church and a Renaissance palace stand against a backdrop of Spain's tallest peaks, including the 3,404-metre Aneto.
A medieval town in Huesca with a pentagonal arcaded plaza, three surviving city gates, and a Gothic-Renaissance basilica built into the rock above the Ésera river, on the edge of the Aragonese Pyrenees.
A Templar stronghold rising from sandstone above the Aragonese plains, where James I of Aragon grew up under castle custody and medieval kings convened their courts for centuries.
A castle of Arab and Lombard origins crowns a hillside above the Ara river valley in the Aragonese Pyrenees, with one of the largest churches in the range rising below it in the old town.
A mountain town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, sitting at 891 metres where the Ara river runs through the broad Valle de Broto, with the high peaks of Sobrarbe rising to over 2,000 metres on every side.
The former capital of the County of Ribagorza, Benabarre sits in the Aragonese Pyrenean foothills of Huesca, its medieval quarter and count's castle marking a town whose history runs from Roman settlement through Arab rule to the courts of Aragón.
The capital of the Los Monegros comarca in Huesca, Aragón, where a Carthusian monastery founded in 1507, a Romanesque hermitage above the Alcanadre river, and one of Spain's largest inland lakes sit within a few kilometres of each other.
A former royal city of the Crown of Aragón, sitting on a history that runs from Iberian settlement through Muslim rule to medieval parliament, Tamarite de Litera carries more weight than its size in Huesca suggests.