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Stage 2 by Somport

Phase from Jaca to Arrés

km 25,0

Time 06H 30’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 2

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Information about the stage 2 by Somport: Phase from Jaca to Arrés

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Points of interest in the stage 2 by Somport: Phase from Jaca to Arrés

15 Gothic fortress
14 Path. Ascent to Arrés
13 Puente la Reina de Jaca
12 Casa Palacio
11 Church of El Salvador
10 Cloister
9 San Juan de la Peña
8 Church of Santa Maria
7 Church of San Caprasio
6 Old Sale of Sculpabolsas
5 Viewpoint of the Berdun Canal
4 Ford of the Atarés Canyon
3 Ermita de la Victoria
2 Ciudadela
1 Catedral de Jaca

The route

Km 0. Jaca (All Services)

Thanks to the bronze shells strategically placed on the pavement, we managed to advance along the road network of downtown Jaca. The tour allows you to see the gothic Clock tower and the church of Santiago. Next to it we can turn right by Calle del Coso and then left by Bajada de Baños. We reached the roundabout where the gas station is to take the N-240 towards Pamplona. In short, next to the military headquarters, we left the national one on our left and continued through an urbanization and a small polygon just outside Jaca. We arrived at the foot of the Victoria hermitage, a symbol of victory over the Muslims to which the Jaqueses come in pilgrimage on the first Friday of May (Km 2,8).

At this point we cross the N-240 and take in a short time a goose (canned of cattle) that emerges next to the right wing and that passes over the riverside forest of the Aragon River. After twenty minutes he departs again to the national at the height of the Botiguera to cross the river Gas (Km 5.2) and reach by the caseta del Municionero. A wooden pole of GR 65.3.2 indicates the diversion to Atarés and San Juan de la Peña (see section observations), but we continue in the direction of Santa Cilia by GR 65.3. Then, before kilometric point 288 of the N-240, the road is crossed and left on the right. He then re-crosses to take a path that reaches the Ataris Canyon, which we saved through a walkway conditioned in the Holy Year of 2010 (Km 7,7).

Once you get over, you go off to the road that goes up to Atarés and, listen, take it right. It leads us to a path that we started by plains to derive in a section with a more marked profile that reaches the viewpoint of the Berdun Canal, a small atalaya on this vast orographic depression covered with cereal and surmounted by the river Aragón and the grey strip of the N-240 (Km 11,3).

We descend abruptly and pass behind the Aragon hotel and the historic sale of Esculabolsas , old inn of walkers and merchants. After saving a water regate we walk a few meters field through and cross the road A-1603 that goes up to Santa Cruz de la Serós and San Juan de la Peña. Then we continued straight through a cabanera that leads us to Santa Cilia, a town we entered after crossing the road. The urban route leads us to the same historical center.

Km 15.3. Santa Cilia (Hostel. Bar. Bakery. Pharmacy)

We left Santa Cilia for a cabanera and some rounds stuck to the national after which we managed to subtract two and a half kilometers more from the total of the stage. Reaching the kilometric point 300, we crossed the N-240 and left the campsite Pyrenees on the right hand (Km 18,7). Glued to the left wing we travel two kilometers, up to kilometric point 302, and we cross the national one to enter through a grim path that goes down to the river margin, where hundreds of pilgrims have taken advantage of the roaded songs to form with them vertical structures similar to chimneys. All of them form an amazing landscape. In three hundred meters we reach the stone bridge over the Aragon de Puente la Reina de Jaca.

Km 21.4. Puente la Reina de Jaca (Bars. Shops. Pharmacy)

Without crossing, we left this locality of services on the right hand and continued straight on a local road towards Arrés, leaving to the left the A-132 road heading to Huesca. Later, a wooden pole marked with the indication 'PR-HU 23. Arrés 3 Km' invites us to take a path that ascends the skirt of Mount Samitier. The first kilometer exceeds a strong gap but it is passing the hardness until finally reaching 700 meters of altitude in Arrés, end of stage.

Km 25. Arrés (Hostel. Bar)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

SANTA CRUZ DE
LA SERÓS:On the N-240, at the height of the Aragon hotel, there is a cross on the left hand that goes up the road A-1603 to Santa Cruz de la Serós. It's four kilometers.
- Traditional architecture:
  Popular architecture built by the people for the people. The dwellings, erected in carved stone, are characterized by V-clad roofs covered with overlapping slabs and equipped with truncated chimneys, which are rounded down figures known as 'scarves'.
- Church of Santa Maria:Romanesque,
  from the 11th or 12th centuries, was part of a monastic complex inhabited until 1555 by Benedictine nuns. It has a single nave divided into three sections, two covers, three apses - two of them rectangular - and a formidable tower with twin windows.
- Hermitage of San Caprasio:Small
  construction dated in the first half of the 11th century and which responds to the construction scheme of the Lombard Romanesque, style from northern Italy and which is also represented in the famous churches of the Vall de Boí Catalan. It was restored in the middle of the 20th century under the direction of the architect Chueca Goitia in order to delete later additions to the original.
SAN JUAN DE LA PEÑA:
- Royal Monastery: Nestled in the same Sierra de la Peña, under a gigantic rock on Mount Pano, it originates in an x-century monastic center that was refounded by King Sancho Garcés III, nicknamed the Mayor, in the 11th century. The Roman rite was introduced in San Juan de la Peña in 1071. After the grave fire of 1675, it was decided to build a new monastery in a prairie known as Llano de San Indalecio, located just above. In the old monastery you can see the hall of the Councils, the Mozarabic church, the Romanesque church - consecrated in 1094 -, the chapel of San Victorian from the florid gothic, and the cloister, unique for its location and the expressive capitals of the arquique carved by the master of San Juan de la Peña, who narrate the Genesis and life of Jesus.
SANTA CILIA:Officially,
first and only intermediate transit village of the second day of the Aragonese Road. At 650 meters altitude, the urban area of Santa Cilia is located in the Canal de Berdún, next to the Vega del Río Aragón. The distribution of the village was planned at the end of the 12th century or in the 14th century, giving rise to the rectilinear and perpendicular streets that we can observe today. The construction of second residences, the closest to the N-240, expand the limits of this historic town of the Camino de Santiago. It is worth going into a bakery in Santa Cilia, they make a compact loaf bread that barely makes crumbs when cut.
- Church of the Savior:
  Single nave. He took over from an ancient medieval church and rose up in the 18th century, keeping some elements from previous times such as the bell tower and the gothic cover.
ARRÉS:On a
hill and 700 meters high, Arrés is an incomparable viewpoint of the Berdun Canal. From its privileged position one can see, in defined strata, the cereal fields, the riverside forest of the Aragon River, the lower mountain and the Pyrenean barrier at the bottom.
- Church of Santa Águeda:From the
  16th century, it presents a single nave, a porticado atrium and polygonal apse. There is also a fortified 15th century tower in Arrés.