Visit to Canfranc Pueblo

In the eleventh century, and the same side of the road in France, was born as a perfect example of Canfranc border town. In the midst of a deep valley, with limited agricultural resources, its people are necessarily devoted to trade, basing its economy on transactions between Aragon and Aquitaine, and in the reception of travelers and pilgrims

From ancient - perhaps since Roman times - until today, transborder communications have marked the origin and historical evolution of the valley: the Somport - called in times Canfranc port - is the border crossing less abrupt and busiest of all the central Pyrenees.

The ancient village of Canfranc, despite the devastating fires of 1617 and 1944, still retains some of its ancient heritage. The remains of the castle, medieval and expanded in the sixteenth century, are preserved on a rock, the facade of the tower Aznar Palacín the fourteenth century, the parish church of the Assumption, with its four baroque altarpieces, and the monumental of the Trinity was founded in the sixteenth century by D. Blasco of them to serve poor and pilgrims.

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