Aragon
Aragon is a region in the north of Spain. Despite seeing limited tourist traffic compared to other regions, it holds a wealth of unique sights, with villages and towns rich in architectural history picturesquely extending on the hillsides and in the valleys in the midst of the barren, mountainous countryside…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Zaragoza and Huesca.
Zaragoza
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Zaragoza is the capital and largest city of Aragon in Spain, and one of Spain's five largest cities, but it is one of the least known outside of Spain.
Huesca
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Huesca is the capital city of 52,000 people. It is the gateway to the Pyrenees an area rich in Romanesque architecture, ski resorts and stunning landscapes.
Teruel
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Teruel is the capital city of Teruel province in Aragon. It is noted for its harsh climate, its jamón serrano, its pottery, its surrounding archaeological sites, rock outcrops containing some of the oldest dinosaur remains of the Iberian Peninsula, and its famous events.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Calatayud and Jaca.
Calatayud
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Calatayud is a city in Aragon, Spain. It is located 85 km from Zaragoza and approximately 230km from Madrid. It is the fourth largest city of Aragon, after the provinincial capitals, Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca.
Jaca
Barbastro
Albarracín
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Albarracín is a town of about 1,000 people in the province of Teruel in Aragon. Albarracín is surrounded by stony hills and the town was declared a Monumento Nacional in 1961.
Alquezar
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Alquezar is a small town of about 300 people standing on the rocks in Aragon, north of Spain. It is in the Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park, and there are various campsites in the local area to cater to outdoor enthusiasts.
Echo
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Echo or Hecho is a village in Aragon. The town has pretty stone houses, is surrounded by formidable mountains, and hiking trails abound.
Villanueva de Sigena
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Villanueva de Sigena is a village of about 400 people in Aragon. The Monastery of Santa María de Sigena is about 5 km south of the village.
Murillo de Gallego
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Murillo de Gállego is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census, the municipality has a population of 182 inhabitants.
Graus
Ansó
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Ansó is a village in Aragon in the Valles de Echo and Ansó in the Spanish Pyrenees. The village is tiny but very pretty with its stone houses and views of the mountains around. It is also a great base for exploring the mountains and villages in the valley.
Torla
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Torla, or Torla-Ordesa, is a municipality in the Aragon region of Spain. Torla is a gateway to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park in the valley of Ordesa, and to Valle de Broto. It is home to about 300 people.
Canfranc
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Canfranc is in Aragon, Spain. It consists of two villages, the original village, which has fewer than 100 residents, and Canfranc Estación, which developed with the establishment of Canfranc international railway station to serve railway traffic across the Pyrenees.
Monegros
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Monegros is a county of about 20,000 people in the Huesca Province of Aragon. The Desert of Monegros is a charming area that captivates all those who visit.
Somport
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Somport is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain. It lies on the French Way of the Way of St. James. The pass is the end of the Via Tolosana and the starting point of the Aragonese Way. The elevation is 1,632 m.
Aragon
- Type: State with 1,350,000 residents
- Description: autonomous community in Spain
- Also known as: “ES24”
- Neighbors: Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Catalonia, La Rioja, Navarre, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, and Valencian Community
- Categories: autonomous community of Spain and locality
- Location: Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude of center
41.3787° or 41° 22′ 43″ northLongitude of center
-0.7639° or 0° 45′ 50″ westPopulation
1,350,000Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Aragon” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Aragon”
- Albanian: “Aragona”
- Amharic: “አራጎን”
- Arabic: “أرغون”
- Arabic: “أَرَغـُون”
- Arabic: “منطقة أرغون”
- Aragonese: “Aragón”
- Armenian: “Արագոն”
- Arpitan: “Comunôtât ôtonoma d’Aragon”
- Asturian: “Aragón”
- Azerbaijani: “Araqon muxtar birliyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Araqon”
- Balinese: “Aragon”
- Basque: “Aragoi”
- Belarusian: “Арагон”
- Bengali: “আরাগোন”
- Bosnian: “Aragon”
- Bosnian: “Aragón”
- Breton: “Aragon”
- Bulgarian: “Арагон”
- Catalan: “Aragó”
- Cebuano: “Aragon”
- Central Bikol: “Aragon”
- Chinese: “Aragón”
- Chinese: “亞拉岡”
- Chinese: “亞拉岡自治區”
- Chinese: “阿拉貢自治區”
- Chinese: “阿拉贡”
- Cornish: “Aragon”
- Crimean Tatar: “Aragon”
- Croatian: “Aragonija”
- Czech: “Aragonie”
- Dagbani: “Aragon”
- Danish: “Aragonien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Aragon”
- Dutch: “Aragón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اراجون”
- Esperanto: “Aragono”
- Estonian: “Aragón”
- Extremaduran: “Aragón”
- Finnish: “Aragonia”
- French: “Aragon”
- Galician: “Aragón”
- Georgian: “არაგონი”
- German: “Aragonien”
- Greek: “Αραγονία”
- Greek: “Αραγώνα”
- Greek: “Αραγωνία”
- Guarani: “Aragõ”
- Guarani: “Aragón”
- Haitian: “Aragon”
- Hakka Chinese: “Aragon”
- Hakka Chinese: “Aragón”
- Hebrew: “אראגון”
- Hindi: “आरागोन”
- Hungarian: “Aragónia”
- Icelandic: “Aragon”
- Ido: “Aragon”
- Inari Sami: “Aragonia jiešhaldâšemkuávlu”
- Inari Sami: “Aragonia”
- Indonesian: “Aragon”
- Interlingua: “Aragon”
- Interlingue: “Aragon”
- Irish: “An Aragóin”
- Italian: “Aragona”
- Japanese: “アラゴン”
- Japanese: “アラゴン州”
- Javanese: “Aragon”
- Kabardian: “Арагон”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Aragon”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Арагон”
- Kashubian: “Aragoniô”
- Kazakh: “Арагон”
- Kinaray-A: “Aragon”
- Kinaray-A: “Aragonanën”
- Kinaray-A: “Aragonanun”
- Kirghiz: “Арагон”
- Korean: “아라곤 지방”
- Korean: “아라곤”
- Korean: “아라곤주”
- Ladin: “Aragon”
- Ladino: “Aragon”
- Latin: “Aragonia”
- Latvian: “Aragona”
- Ligurian: “Aragónn-a”
- Limburgan: “Aragón”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Aragon”
- Literary Chinese: “阿拉貢自治區”
- Lithuanian: “Aragonas”
- Livvi: “Aragounii”
- Lombard: “Aragona”
- Luxembourgish: “Aragonien”
- Macedonian: “Арагон”
- Malay: “Aragon”
- Manx: “Aragón”
- Maori: “Aragon”
- Maori: “Arakona”
- Marathi: “आरागोन”
- Mazanderani: “آراگون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aragón”
- Mingrelian: “არაგონი”
- Mirandese: “Aragon”
- Mongolian: “Арагон орон”
- Mongolian: “Арагон”
- Mongolian: “ᠠᠷᠠᠭᠣᠨ”
- Northern Frisian: “Aragoonien”
- Northern Luri: “آراگون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aragon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aragón”
- Norwegian: “Aragón”
- Novial: “Aragón”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aragon”
- Ossetian: “Арагон”
- Pampanga: “Aragon”
- Persian: “آراگون”
- Piemontese: “Aragon-a”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Aragon”
- Polish: “Aragonia”
- Portuguese: “Aragão”
- Quechua: “Aragun”
- Quechua: “Araqun”
- Romanian: “Aragon”
- Russia Buriat: “Арагон”
- Russian: “Автономная область Арагон”
- Russian: “Арагон”
- Sardinian: “Aragona”
- Saterfriesisch: “Aragonien”
- Scots: “Aragon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aragón”
- Serbian: “Арагон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aragon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aragonija”
- Sicilian: “Araùna”
- Slovak: “Aragónsko”
- Slovenian: “Aragonija”
- South Azerbaijani: “آراقون”
- Spanish: “Aragon”
- Spanish: “Aragón”
- Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón”
- Spanish: “Reino de Aragón” (historical)
- Swahili: “Aragon”
- Swedish: “Aragonien”
- Swiss German: “Aragonien”
- Swiss German: “Die autonomi Gmäinschaft Aragonie”
- Tagalog: “Aragón”
- Tajik: “Орогун”
- Tamil: “அரகொன்”
- Tatar: “Арагон”
- Tetum: “Aragaun”
- Thai: “แคว้นอารากอน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Aragonien”
- Turkish: “Aragon”
- Ukrainian: “Арагон”
- Ukrainian: “Араґон”
- Urdu: “آراغون”
- Urdu: “اراغون”
- Uzbek: “Aragon”
- Venetian: “Aragona”
- Vietnamese: “Aragon”
- Vietnamese: “Aragón”
- Vlaams: “Aragón”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aragón”
- Welsh: “Aragón”
- Western Armenian: “Արակոն”
- Western Frisian: “Aragon”
- Western Frisian: “Arragon”
- Western Panjabi: “اراغون”
- Wu Chinese: “阿拉贡”
- Yue Chinese: “亞拉岡”
- “Aragón”
- “Aragona”
- “ma Alakon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aragon”. Photo: Joachim Quandt, CC BY-SA 2.0.