Villanúa

Villanúa (in Aragonese: Bellanuga[1][2]) is a Pyrenean municipality in Spain in the north of Huesca province, in la Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century. Villanúa's altitude is 953 m and it covers 58.2 km2. The village is at the bottom of mount Collarada (2886 m) and in 2018 had 447 inhabitants.

View of Villanúa

It is a tourist locality located between Jaca and the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún and near the French border (12 km. by the Tunnel of Somport).

Population between 1900 and 2014
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2011 2018
959 1.114 847 682 585 551 446 323 265 283 340 512 447

Visiting

The old centre, the church of San Esteban (with a wooden 11th-century Romanesque image of the Virgin, "Our Lady of the Angels"), the cave of Las Güixas, the railway viaduct, dolmens, the Chapel of San Juan and the abandoned villages of Cenarbe and Aruej, with its little Romanesque church of San Vicente (12th century), all in a beautiful environment crossed by the Aragon river. It lies on the old Aragonese pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela, the Way of St James.

The main festivities are September 8 (Virgin's Nativity) and December 26 (San Esteban).

References
  1. Consello Asesor de l'Aragonés, toponyms on the comarca of l'Alto Galligo
  2. Topónimos: Toponyms: towns with local name in Aragonese Great Aragonese Encyclopedia

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