The 20 Most Amazing Peaks around Sabiñánigo

All of Guara is spectacular. The sanctuary has beautiful views of the Tozal de Guara.

The village of Canfranc is a street with houses on either side, there is no room for much else, the mountain slopes grow from the banks of the Aragón River and do not stop until they exceed two thousand metres in altitude, the valley is a perfect mountain architecture. In the square there is a bar and there is the church of the Assumption, from the 12th century, rustic and rural, a traditional landmark of asylum and protection for the pilgrims from Santiago de Compostela who passed through the Somport pass on their way to Jaca. In another building there is the mountain hostel and little else, there are several tourist accommodations but Canfranc is still a quiet mountain village, isolated from the bustle generated by the alpine ski resorts in the upper part of the valley, it is stuck in time. A good place to start the track is the church square, you have to cross the French road that goes up towards Canfranc-Estación and look for the GR-11.1 post at the beginning of the path of the Gabardito sheepfold. The path is fabulous, it doesn't seem like there could be a path with a pleasant layout in a forest wall of inhospitable and inaccessible appearance. The path climbs between walls of moss-covered stones and mountain huts along the Arones ravine, crosses the stream by a dam regulating the stream and marks several switchbacks on the slope of boxwood and fir trees until the Villanúa track. At the crossroads there are signs for the local trails and the GR-11.1 towards Gabardito and Lizara. The route in winter is ideal for walking on snowshoes.

From this point of the GR11 you can enjoy idyllic views of the high mountains. On one side, the peaks of Anayet, vertex (2,540) and peak (2,574 meters) and on the other, the Anayet lakes. In addition, in the background, to the north, the silhouette of the summit of the Midi d'Ossau also rises, so unmistakable. It is a spectacular place to stop to rest but, beware, it is better not to swim. On the one hand because there may be leeches and, on the other, because the Aragonese lakes are protected and our sun creams and deodorants can damage the water and its ecosystems.

This 2,545m high peak is actually a volcano with only the chimney remaining, like its famous neighbor the Midi d'Ossau. This whole area is the remains of a large and old volcanic caldera.

The Anayet peak is the remains of a primitive volcanic python created during the Hercynian orogeny, when successive magma explosions and eruptive convulsions originating in the interior of the earth created the unique colored reliefs that form the Anayet cirque, a large depression created by glacial modeling between two large Pyrenean basins. The northern ibón of Anayet pours the water towards Canal Roya and reaches the Aragón River, in the Canfranc Valley. And the water from the southern ibón is a tributary of the Gállego River, in the neighboring Tena Valley.

"La" Peña de Jaca, one of those pre-Pyrenean mountains that make you turn your back on the Pyrenees and that protects the city from its omnipresence. Sooner or later you will walk or run up it.

It is difficult to find a person from Jaca who has never climbed the Oroel rock. The silhouette of this mountain presides over the Aragón valley and stars in all the postcards of the city. At its top, at 1769 meters high, there is a large iron cross of 10.4 meters. It was built in 1901 with the aim of being visible from Jaca and was paid for with donations from the residents themselves.

A beautiful abandoned monastery with incredible views and a very interesting story: The monastery must have been founded at the beginning of the 8th century, before the Muslim invasion. In the seventeenth century it was renovated and expanded transforming the previous Romanesque church. The current sanctuary is formed by the church with a Latin cross plan with three naves. The central and lateral nave are covered by vaults of lunettes. The tower, low in height, stands next to the access. In front of the sanctuary stands the main door, of Renaissance style, carried out in 1701. It is made up of a huge atrium with open access on three sides by means of semicircular arches. On one side there is a small square where the most picturesque façade stands, in front of a viewpoint with an unbeatable view of the Tozal de Guara. The life of San Úrbez was agitated. He was born in Bordeaux around the year 702 and moved to settle as a hermit and shepherd in Alto Aragón. He took the habits in San Martín de la Val de Onsera, in whose humble monastery he intended to retire. But after a long stay there, the bishop of Huesca ordained him a priest and sent him to Nocito as a priest. He was fulfilling his mission but living on the outskirts, in a cave near the monastery. He died in 802, when he was 100 years old. The relic of San Úrbez deposited in this sanctuary was the most complete since it had the mummified body of the saint in which his beard and hair could be appreciated. Here the relics were deposited until in 1936 they were thrown into a bonfire during the civil war. More information: https://www.joreate.com/tag/santuario-san-urbez/ Architectural information: http://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-006-163-011/Santuario/de/San/%C3%9Arbez.html#.YDThMJNKjUI