8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Ochagavía
Stone-and-slate Pyrenean village at the meeting of the Zatoya and Anduña rivers, crossed by a medieval cobbled bridge and lined with coats-of-arms on whitewashed houses. The classic base for the Irati Forest via the NA-2012.
26 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Monasterio de Leyre
A serene Romanesque monastery clinging to the Sierra slopes above the turquoise Yesa reservoir, famed for its crypt and Gregorian chant.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Monasterio de San Juan de la Pena
A medieval monastery dramatically tucked beneath a vast overhanging rock cliff, the legendary one-time home of the Holy Grail.
30 km · about 35 min drive
mountain pass
Puerto de Somport
A 1,632 m Pyrenean border pass used since Roman times and by Camino de Santiago pilgrims, descending past the monumental Canfranc railway station on the Spanish side.
30 km · about 35 min drive
national park
Selva de Irati
One of Europe's largest beech-fir forests, ablaze with colour in autumn around the Irabia reservoir deep in the Pyrenees.
32 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Foz de Lumbier
A short dramatic gorge where griffon vultures wheel above the Irati river, walked via an old railway tunnel into a sheer limestone canyon.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Sos del Rey Católico
Walled medieval hilltop village in the Cinco Villas where Ferdinand II of Aragon was born in 1452, its cobbled lanes and Romanesque church of San Esteban almost untouched since. Orson Welles filmed Chimes at Midnight here.
38 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Mallos de Riglos
Sheer 300m conglomerate rock towers glow red above a tiny village, a world-renowned climbing wall and griffon-vulture haven.
45 km · about 50 min drive