From the abandoned village of Pardina de Albás, we had to make our way back to a tar road today. First we drove down the mountains, crossed the deep mud a second time and then drove up the mountain on the other side. There were many washed out sections with deep trenches where you don’t …
We left Huesca in the afternoon to explore the impressive castle we had seen from the highway: Castillo Montearagón. It was closed, but the light was perfect and after walking around it, we spent the night not far from the castle, with great views of the sunset and the lights of Huesca. The next day, …
North from Huesca, from the Loarre Castle, which we had visited before, we started a gravel route, taking us to the remains of Castillo Marcuello, a vulture colony and over an interesting track down the mountains to La Pena in the next valley. From the medieval castle, only one wall stands like a finger into …
We had spent the night and half a rainy day in Graus, where we could park next to the river and walk into town. In the afternoon the sun was shining again, and we decided to drive another gravel track to an abandoned village and further over the mountains. Once a prosperous town, but without …
2 abandoned villages, a dam in the middle of nowhere and the most amazing rock formations made us drive on gravel roads through a nice landscape to get to all this places. We were surprised to see how low the water level in this dam was, for sure 20 metres lower than it could be. …
We had spent the night at Arén, where we walked to some dinosaur prints, not far from our parking spot next to the cemetery. The sight is well-marked and has information boards and a walkway, that you can admire the prints from close without destroying them. That day we went on a gravel track going …
In Zaragoza, we had crossed the Ebro and after our visit to Belitche we had returned to the river and decided to follow it to its delta at the Mediterranean coast. The Ebro rises in Cantabria and flows 930 kilometres to the East. In the Iberian Peninsula, it ranks second in length after the Tagus (Tajo), and second in discharge volume …
A town completely destroyed during the Spanish civil war, any reconstruction prohibited by the dictator, the ruins left to remind us of the cruelties of warfare, that is Belchite el viejo. A new town was built next to it by captured Republican soldiers who were interned in the nearby concentration camp. Belitche is a place …
Exploring Zaragoza, we started at the Aljafería Palace, before we strolled into the centre where around the Plaza de Pilar the Basilica and Lonja together with the Fountain of Hispanicity and many other buildings impress with its grandeur. The Aljafería Palace was built as a fortified medieval palace during the 11th century in the Taifa of Zaragoza, an independent …
After spending a cloudy day working and getting all our washing done at a self service laundry in Fuentes del Ebro, we reached the village of Rodén in the evening. During the Civil War (1936-39) the village was destroyed and abandoned. The new village lies now below, with the ruins on the hill preserved to …
