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SOMONTANO ROUTES
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In the heart of the Somontano of Barbastro exists a wide and unknown valley, covered by the ravine of The Clamor. A succession of big rounded rocks of gritty sprinkle a wavy relief, giving place to a strange landscape and loaded with mystery. The Islamic print can also be discovered through its stones and its names.
Next to the highway N-240 that unites Barbastro with Huesca, it is the town of Peraltilla, start point of a peculiar and surprising route in the one that it is travelled the ravine of The Clamor. Around Peraltilla we will begin to see the first blocks of gritty, surrounded of oaks trees and cultivation fields.

Following the highway A-1231, and to only 700 m of Peraltilla, it can be seen on the right the Santa Lucía's mysterious Stone, in which highlights a hollow in the centre of the rock and small dug stairways.

The following town to visit is Azara, where besides enjoying a pleasant walk for its streets, it is worthwhile to ascend to
Santa Margarita's Rock, where the remains of a fortification are still conserved; from her it can be admired a beautiful panorama of the town and their environment.

The route invites us to continue overcoming the ravine of The Clamor, whiles we continue admiring the strange succession of the big aligned rocks and lightly inclined. When sighting the town of Azlor it gets us the attention a great stone again, on which settles the exempt steeple of the church and in the one that the prints of their old castle last. After travelling their streets with beautiful emblazoned facades, it can take the road that, passing next to the cemetery, it drives to the surprisin
Source of Labanera; this small journey of 900 m can be carried out in car, being the start point in a crossing of streets located in the north sector of the town and that it is presided over by an image of the Pilar's Virgin.

Returning to the highway we will continue the route toward Abiego. To 1,5 km of Azlor and the right, it is the beginning of a road that drives to the small
Swamp of the Moors, in which the waters of the ravine of The Clamor are picked up. After a brief walk of 5 minutes from the metallic chain, we arrive to this unexpected and unknown place.

Again in the car, we will travel 500 meters to arrive to the intersection of the highway with the cabañera (livestock ways) that crosses the Somontano. In this point we will stray to the left, taking the earth hint that drives to the enigmatic
Monument to the XX Century, contemporary work of sculptor Ulrich Rückiem.

Abiego also possesses so much diverse elements of great interest that deserve to be visited, in its urban centre as it is its suburbs. However, a very special rock exists, only in the Somontano of Barbastro, where are conserved numerous fossilized prints of mammals that they inhabited these lands 25 million years ago. To arrive to this place, in only 5 minutes, we should take a road signalled toward the right, to the entrance of the town in address Adahuesca and next to a small area of rest with benches. From Abiego it can also be carried out a comfortable walk until a medieval bridge on the river Alcanadre.

To 3,4 km of Abiego we find the cabañera again; we will take this road toward the left, because to 200 meters we will see an accumulation of stones around an iron cross, call
Crucelós. In this place ancestral pagan rites converge with the Christian, the history with the legend... to know something more about these old beliefs we should go to Adahuesca and to visit the Center of Interpretation of Legends and Traditions. But this town, cradle of the sacred Nunila and Alodia, also highlight to conserve a rich civil and religious architectural patrimony.

Without abandoning Adahuesca, the lovers of the Romanesque art should not forget to visit the hermitage of Our Mrs. of Treviño, to which you arrives for the same road in which the well source is located. Also the town of Alberuela of Laliena, located 3 km of Adahuesca and in address Bierge, has the interesting Romanesque church of San Nicolás of Bari. For the surroundings of Adahuesca it can be carried out, on foot or in bicycle, the Magic Route, constituted by several itineraries of different longitude each one of them.

Vista de Azara desde la peña de Santa Margarita
Foto: Ignacio Pardinilla

Pantano de los Moros
Foto: Ignacio Pardinilla

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Treviño
Foto: CEDER Somontano
 
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