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The Pyrenees

The Pyrenees Travel Guide

The snowcapped Pyrenees that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of the European continent have always been a special realm, a source of legend and superstition. Along with the magic comes a surprising number of ancient cultures and languages, all Pyrenean and yet each profoundly different from the next. To explore the Pyrenees fully—appreciating the flora and fauna, the local gastronomy, the remote glacial lakes and streams, the Romanesque art in a thousand hermitages—could take a lifetime. More »

Top Reasons to Go
Getting Oriented
When to Go

Getting Here
Getting Around
Hiking the Pyrenees

Places to Explore

Aínsa
Alta Ribagorça Oriental
Aragüés Valley
Baztán Valley
Beget
Bellver de Cerdanya
Benasque
Bielsa
Burguete
Camprodón
Espot
Hecho and Ansó Valleys
Huesca
Jaca
La Seu d'Urgell
Lesaka
Llessuí
Llívia

Martinet
Molló
Panticosa and the Tena Valley
Puigcerdà
Ripoll
Roncal Valley
Roncesvalles
Salardú
San Juan de Plan and the Gistaín Valley
Sant Joan de les Abadesses
Setcases
Sort
Taüll
Vall d'Aran and Environs
Vallferrera and Cardós Valleys
Vielha
Zaragoza

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