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Cultural patrimony

Treasures within ones reach are not that frequent, but the art in the Val d'Aran stands forth as some of the best in the Pyrenees.

Churches

In Val d'Aran, you can enjoy an important monumental artistic ensemble, composed primarily of a large number of Romanesque churches. A rich sculptural...

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Museums

The museums share the culture of the Val d’Aran, a strategic border territory throughout its history. Within its rooms the visitor will find singular...

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Industrial patrimony

From a farming and forest based economic structure, the Val d’Aran knew how to develop new productive cycles that were interesting both in the mineral...

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Many of the Aranese houses and villages were destroyed in different battle and war eras.

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Walking along the towns and enclaves of Val d’Arán will delight the visitor not only because of the beauty of its landscapes but also because of the wonderful and still alive legends. Some of them surrounded by fiction and others completely real turn the experience into something magical.

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Aranese is a variation of the Gasconne dialect spoken by 5000 people.

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