Villanúa is a Pyrenean

Pyrenees

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 municipality in Spain

Spain

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 in the north of Huesca province

Huesca (province)

Huesca , officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca.Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French Departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées...

, in la Jacetania

Jacetania

Jacetania is a comarca in northern Aragon, Spain. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Huesca and Zaragoza provinces.The administrative capital is Jaca, with 13,374 inhabitants the largest town of the comarca. The area is famous for its ski resorts.Jacetania borders with France in the...

, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century. Altitude 953m. and 58.2km². The village is at the bottom of the mount Collarada

Collarada

Collarada peak is a mountain in the western Pyrenees of Huesca, situated on the northeastern Aragon near the towns of Villanúa and Canfranc...

 (2886m.) and in 2010 had 492 inhabitants.

It is a tourist locality located between Jaca

Jaca

Jaca is a city of northeastern Spain near the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca...

 and the ski stations of Candanchú

Candanchú

Candanchú is a ski resort situated near the town of Canfranc in the High Aragon of the western Pyrenees . The name of the area is a corruption of "Camp d'Anjou" as this was originally the site of a military camp of the French Angevin dynasty...

 and Astún

Astún

Astún is a ski resort situated near the town of Canfranc in the High Aragon of the western Pyrenees . The source of the Aragon River is in the resort.-The resort:...

 and near the French

France

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 border (12km. by the Tunnel of Somport

Somport

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).

Population between 1900 and 2009
1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2010
959	1.114	847	682	585	551	446	323	265	283	340	492

Visiting Villanúa

The old centre, the church of San Esteban

San Esteban

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 (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 c), all in a beautiful environment crossed by the Aragon river

Aragón River

The River Aragón is one of the left-hand tributaries of the river Ebro. It starts at Astún , passes through Jaca and Sangüesa , and joins the Ebro at Milagro , near Tudela....

. It lies on the old Aragonese pilgrim's road

The Aragonese Way

The Aragonese Way is a route of the Way of St. James beginning at the French-Spanish border at the pass of Somport and joining the French Way at Puente la Reina in Navarre...

 to Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...

, the Way of St James.

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

San Esteban

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).

External links

• http://www.villanua.net