"LOS MOLINOS"
( Municipality of The "Pueyo de Araguás")
• Inhabitants: 21 inhabitants in the census of 2001.
• Altitude: 822 m. On the level of the sea.
• Distance to Huesca: 120 km
• local Holidays: the major party for the Virgin and the small one for San Paul's conversion.

 

ITINERARIES - SENDERISMO

The viewing-point of greedy(lad) (Recommended)

Point of beginning: Torrelisa's meadow

Point of arrival: Torrelisa's meadow

Duration of the itinerary: half a day

Length: 7,5 km recommended Epoch: the whole year

Aspects of interest: paths of “ Under Rocks ” and Oncins's bench-covers, both proved from the work of the villagers during generations, panoramic of the Sobrarbe , hermitage of Santa Maria Sponge-cake, big rocky coffees with a dash of milk (of more than 500 m) habitat of birds rupícolas and carrascales .

 

Hermitage of the Espelunga (Recommended)

Point of beginning: San Victorián's monastery

Point of arrival: the hermitage of the Espelunga

Duration of the itinerary: half a day

Difference: 300 m

Recommended season: the whole year.

Aspects of interest: San Victorián's monastery (centuries XVII and XVIII), carrascal (forest of a variety of oak more resistant to the cold that the typical one) and cave hermitage of the Espelunga. tinerarios N S And Or Highland Rock The Picón Feixa Bull Coarse Fields Lacruz Torrelisa Oncins The Major Castle The Espluga of the Swallows The Stony ground of Nose The Major Tuca Canal, The Costiellos

 

Ascension to the Highland Rock (Recommended)

Point of beginning: Oncins's highway to San Victorián, the indicative cartel

Point of arrival: summit of the Highland Rock (2291 m)

Duration of the itinerary: a day (from 3,30 to 5 hours of ascension) Difference: 1230 m

Recommended season: of October to May, both included.

Yours Aspects of interest: seen panoramic with a sea of mountains to our feet: Major Castle, Monte Perdido's clump, Guara's saw... Importantly: During the ascension it passes for places where the cattle grazes its broad ones without shepherd who monitors it from June to September. In these months it is not advisable to rise for the extreme heat that is reached in the south face of this calcareous mass, but if we decide to ascend in spite of everything we must carry to extremes the precautions and not bother to the easily scared cattle that easily it might hurl down (you do not take free dogs).

MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING :from the most technical and hard ascensions, since they can be the faces north winter, to the most accessible and less demanding, the catalogue of ascensions is as extensive as varied. Some of them are real classic of the Pyrenees, like the North face of "Monte Perdido" or the Cresteo of Sierra Morena.


CLIMBING: In Sobrarbe there is a good number of schools of sports climbing, perfectly equipped, with routes that go from the fourth to the eighth degree, for all the tastes. Zones of granite, limy, conglomerate.. the offer is wide and varied.

If the winter accompanies, and the temperatures allow it (thing that happens almost every year), they are countless the waterfalls turn into blocks of ice, the delights of the fans to the climbing into ice, which concen well zones Like "Barrosa" or "the Mouth of the Tunnel "

ESPELEOLOGIA: "Monte Perdido's clump" is the Europa's highest limy mountain. It is not of surprise that in its interior are infinity of caves(grottos) and simas(chasms), some of them are of the deepest of the world, as Arañonera's system (35 km of length and 1179 m. Of depth)

SKI : In our region there are two tracks of cross-country skiing, in Fanlo and Pineta , who allow to practise this sport in privileged environments. At less than half an hour we have some of the best resorts of Alpine ski(skiing) of the Pyrenees, and the possibilities for the ski mountaineering are nearly unlimited


AQUATIC SPORTS
Rafting
The rivers Cinca and Ara are suitable to begin in the practice of this sport during the months of thaw.
Kayak
These rivers of crystalline waters, which get off the mountains saving strong differences they are suitable for the practice of the kayak. Some of them are well-known for the fans of this sport, as the most top section of the Cinqueta , or the Torla - I Appear.
Ravines
The most numerous medical instructors(student teachers) of this sport, every day, will find in these lands an offer as wide as varied. Vertical and mighty ravines in the valleys of the north of the region, dark and spectacular those of Guara's saw, on the south.

HUNT AND FISHING
Sobrarbe is a stage favoured for the development of the hunt so much major as minor. You find here the National Reservation(Reserve) of Hunt of " The Circos" in the zone of the High place Cinca , inside Bielsa's area.

Equally in the rivers and pyrenees lakes , as well as in the reserv, it is possible to to develop the fishing of different species, principally trout and barbel

WALKING
The net of paths signposted of our region grows year after year. To classic " Routes of Great Tour " (GR) are joining new " Routes of Small Tour " (PR) , which are increasing the quantity and especially the variety of the possibilities of election.

This wide and interesting net of paths allows to cross of sure form practically all the corners of our land, for recondite that are.

The correct signposting of the paths, together with the informative published guides, they allow the walker to dedicate all his attention to enjoying the landscape and the environment.

 

In the Municipality
San Victorián's monastery , national monument. Considered the most ancient of Spain. In its bosom there blew up the union that would give place to the formation of the Wreath of Aragon
Peña Montañesa, "Highland rock" (2.291 meters). Paths of great and small tour
Visits to the village: Araguás, San Lorién (iglesia románica del S.XI), Torrelisa, Oncins, La Muera, Soto y La Pardina. El Plano y Los Molinos (with restaurants).
In the zone

Ordesa's national park and Monte Perdido :

It four valleys of origin shape glacier: Ordesa, Añisclo , Escuaín and Pineta ; near Monte Perdido's clump, the highest calcareous mountain of Europe. To accede to Pineta's valley , in Bielsa's surroundings, there must be crossed 14 kilometres full of landscape of a singular beauty. In Añisclo , near of Escalona, we will find a river boxed with big vertical walls surrounded with a spectacular vegetation. In Ordesa , near Torla , we will discover its wonderful waterfalls. In Escuaín we will observe the colossal gorge.

Nature reserve of the Sierra de Guara's cannons . Ideal place for the sports of adventure.
Nature reserve Posets Maladeta .
Nuclei of interest: Alquézar, Abizanda , Boltaña, Labuerda , Bielsa , Plan, Gistaín or San Juan of Plan.
Churches in the tour: Abizanda (defensive tower of the S.XI ), Olsón (church of the Aragonese Gothic) .Muro of Roda (enclosure walled of the Romanesque only style in Europe), San Juan of Toledo (Romanesque church with interesting paintings
In Ainsa
The Square and the Castle. They date back of the centuries XI and XII. Of medieval character. The square was a stage of numerous fairs. The Castle was ordered to construct for Philip II inside his politics of fortification of the squares of the Altoaragón as prevention to possible assaults. Iit was finished in 1600.

Eco Museum: to discover the fauna pirenaica . It is possible to to observe the work of recovery realized(fulfilled) by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Osprey, a threatened species that has managed to survive in the area , paints ) . Arts and traditional offices museum:dedicated to the ancient offices that were practised in the whole Sobrarbe's region.