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Stage 3 by Somport

Arrés to Ruesta Stage

km 28,7

Time 07H 15’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 2

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Information about the stage 3 by Somport: Arrés to Ruesta Stage

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Points of interest in the stage 3 by Somport: Arrés to Ruesta Stage

11 Church of Santa Maria
10 San Juan Hermitage
9 Calle de Artieda
8 Church of St. Martin
7 Towards Artieda
6 Transfer to Mianos
5 Barranco de Excelechos
4 Road crossing to Tuesday
3 Badlands landscape
2 La Pardina del Solano Farm
1 Gothic fortress

The route

Km 0. Arrés (Hostel. Bar)

With the first lights of the day we say goodbye to Arrés on a stony path surrounded by boj that descends to a runway. It surrounds cereal plantations and ends up turning ninety degrees to the left to regain the western direction. About 20 minutes later we are on a piste walk with an agricultural and rural tourism complex known by the Pardina del Solano (Km 3,7). We went ahead and, a kilometer and a half later, left a detour that leads to the town of Tuesday . We continue along the runway and look at the curious geological structures, known as badlands, that come up at the margins of the road. We leave the concentration trail when crossing the road to Tuesday (Km 7).

We turn left to win a small hill and we take a right-hand detour that plants us back on another concentration track. Beyond the boundary between the provinces of Huesca and the incoming Zaragoza, we access the Barranco de Excelechos. Its flow is no longer a problem thanks to the walkway built in 2010 (km 10.3). After the ravine we soon find another course of water that goes down the Calcones ravine. Once overcome by another similar walkway we face a short climb and already by favorable terrain we link to a paved runway. It leads to Mianos, the first people to see. Later we end up leaving the brea and, without going on to Mianos, we take a right road towards Artieda (km 13,4).

An uncomfortable stretch of climb and down reaches the road leading to the feet of Artieda. Whoever decides to end the stage here must go up to the center of the village, where the hostel is located. To continue towards Ruesta it is not necessary to climb to Artieda, although it is worth the effort to take a breath and replenish forces. We will no longer find localities in the eleven kilometers remaining of stage.

Km 17.6. Artieda (Hostel. Bar)

Having gone up or not, next to the Artieda diversion we take a right-hand track. After three hundred meters it turns left and leads us to the A-1601 (Km 20,4), a road that we follow to the left and that will accompany us for four kilometers. A few hundred meters after kilometric point number 6 we left the road to take a path that goes up to a cereal field (Km 24,4).

We line the ground and cross the road to go through a stand that finally gives us a little shade. At some points, between the green scrubland you can distinguish the incredible color of the Yesa reservoir . Without references, the end seems never to come. As we leave to a clearing, we left the Romanesque chapel of San Juan, in ruins and covered by a metal structure. One more effort and we went up to the road to enter Ruesta after p.k 10.

Km 28.7. Ruesta (Hostel. Bar)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

ARTIEDA:Already
in the province of Zaragoza, Artieda is 650 meters above a dominant hill. A look at the village with a satellite map shows a planned Artieda in the form of a snail shell, equipped with a clear defensive character. This site was sought in the 12th or 13th century to rebuild the new Artieda, since the primitive nucleus, located below the bank of Aragon, was destroyed by an invasion. It also lost the old church of Santa Maria, whose properties had been donated to the monastery of San Salvador de Leyre and later to the hospital of Santa Cristina de Somport.
- Church of St. Martin:
  The body and the semicircular apse are Romanesque. The portico, the front cover and the tower correspond to other constructive stages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary is the 16th century, as is the image of the Christ he keeps. In addition to the church, two civil buildings stand out in the urban area: the Palacio de los Pagos and the Hospital house.
RUESTA:
The waters of the Aragon River, the Esca River and the Regal River were definitely replaced in 1959 when the Yesa reservoir was opened. This hydraulic works aneged 2,400 hectares, most of them of agricultural exploitation. The inhabitants of three localities in Zaragozanas, including those in Ruesta, had to leave their village because of the loss of their lands and ultimately the only possible livelihood offered by their homeland. Visiting Ruesta is comparable to a history class. The landscape of dwellings abandoned and conquered by ivy evoke the past times of a Ruesta integrated in the Kingdom of Aragon, of a border Ruesta populated by Jews and Christians and dedicated to trade and tax collection for the traffic of goods entering and leaving the Kingdom. In 1988 Ruesta began to resurface. The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation ceded the use of the people to the General Working Confederation of Aragon in order to take care of the recovery of this nucleus, another milestone in the history of pilgrimages.