Adventure in Aragon!
Nature and life
Castles, Monasteries, Cathedrals....
Climbing
Mallos de Riglos, Huesca
Loarre Castle, Huesca
The Stone Monastery of Zaragoza
Canyoning
Biking
(Monasterio de Piedra, Zaragoza)
Aneto's summit
Film
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
(Ridley Scott)
3.404 m
Orlando Bloom, actor
Hiking
Natural Parks
Rafting
Pasarelas del montsec
(Aragon-Cataluna)
THE PYRENEES
Popular Feasts
"Sima de San Pedro", Teruel
"Muralla de Finestras"
(Chinese wall of Aragona)
Lake depth, 25 m
Oliete / Andorra - Sierra de Arcos / Teruel
Tower of San Martin, Teruel
Montsec de Aragón
The Feast of El Pilar, Saragossa
(Fiestas de El Pilar, Zaragoza)
(12 October)
Holy week (Semana Santa)
(March or April)
JOTA, Traditional dance of Aragon
San Lorenzo, Huesca
(August)
Danzantes
Fiestas del Angel, Teruel
El torico
POPULAR FEASTS
FEEL ARAGONA
Gastronomy
Wine
Peach of Calanda
(Melocotón de Calanda)
Ham of Teruel
Longaniza de Graus
("Pork sausage" of Graus)
"Crespillos" of Barbastro
Pink tomato of Barbastro
(Tomate rosa de Barbastro)
RECORD GUINESS from 1997.
GASTRONOMY
"Torrijas"
, dessert for Easter
47.000.000 inhabitants
Capital: Madrid ( 3.207.247)
Barcelona: 1.611.822
Main religion: Catholic
Oficial languages:
Español, Valenciano, Catalán, Gallego y Euskera
People: On the whole, tenacious people, as a kind as warm, with a sarcastic humor and noble intentions.
1,349,467 inhabitants
Capital: Zaragoza
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, artist and painter (1746-1828)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, scientist (1852 -1934)
(Winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine)
- Luis Buñuel, film director (1900-1983)
(Winner of an Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in 1973)
Community of contrasts, Christians, Jewish and Muslims have lived together.
Monarchy
Barbastro
Canary Islands, NASA's most spectacular image of 2013
SITUATION