Villanúa
Villanúa
Bellanuga (in Aragonese) | |
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| Website | www.villanua.net |
Villanúa (in
Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century. Villanúa's altitude is 953 m and it covers 58.2 km2. The village is at the bottom of mount Collarada
(2886 m) and in 2018 had 447 inhabitants.
It is a tourist locality located between Jaca and the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún and near the French border (12 km. by the Tunnel of Somport).
| Population between 1900 and 2014 | ||||||||||||
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| 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2018 |
| 959 | 1.114 | 847 | 682 | 585 | 551 | 446 | 323 | 265 | 283 | 340 | 512 | 447 |
Visiting
The old centre, the church of
Way of St James
.
The main festivities are September 8 (Virgin's Nativity) and December 26 (San Esteban).
References
External links
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42°41′N 0°32′W / 42.683°N 0.533°W
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