Ansó

Stone houses and mountain views mark this village in the Veral valley, in the far north-western corner of Aragon along the French border. Livestock has always been its mainstay: since 1375 herders from Béarn have paid the Tribute of the Three Cows, and older villagers still speak Ansotano, a form of Aragonese. Upstream, the valley reaches Zuriza and glacial lakes such as the Ibón de Estanés.

Highlights

• The Gothic church of San Pedro, housing ethnographic and sacred art museums
• The Ibón de Estanés, a glacial lake in the Pyrenees
• The Tribute of the Three Cows, a pasture pact still honoured since 1375
• Forests and peaks of the Valles Occidentales natural park (ES)
• Zuriza, upriver, where a 19th-century border guards' barracks is now a campsite

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Ansó (ES), Ansó (EN), Ansó (IT)), Wikivoyage (Ansó (ES), Ansó (EN)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.