A forty-five minute drive to the east from Huesca brought us to the medieval town of Alquézar through which the Rio Vero runs in a deep canyon above the hilltop village.
It is often on the list of prettiest towns in Spain, whoever makes those lists. We lack contravening evidence.
We stopped for lunch to see pigs fly. (Look closely and you’ll see a pile of mushrooms. Russell ate them all.)
After returning to the car to get better footwear, we headed down to the Pasarelas. The hike starts by going down steeply on a series of staircases. You then follow the river on elavated metal walkways that are stuck into the rockface, sometimes having to lean and squeeze to get by the rocks. It was only about three kilometers (about two miles) but there was about 600 feet of elevation drop. The hike back up was steep!
The canyon was breathtaking. This is a huge tourist site (and you can tell from the warnings and signs that more than one Instagrammer has tried to walk it in inappropriate footwear), but on a weekday visit in the offseason we had it mostly to ourselves.
Here are some more views from the end of the hike. The town is right on the edge of the cliff. The people who called it one of the prettiest weren’t wrong, but after walking up through the canyon and then the vertical streets to get to our car, it didn’t feel so pretty!
A spectacular day.
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