# Alquézar and the River Vero

What to do in Alquézar: the Vero walkways, the collegiate church and its painted cloister, canyons in Guara and rock art, 50 minutes from Huesca.

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/aragon/alquezar · Revisado: 2026-11-12

Alquézar is a stone village on top of a spur above the canyon of the River Vero, with a collegiate church set in a castle at the tip. It is the southern gateway to the Sierra de Guara and the place in the Somontano that people come to for three things: the route of walkways hung above the river, the canyons and the rock art of the Vero, a World Heritage site. It is about 50 minutes from Huesca and can be done in a day, although a night lets you add a canyon or the paintings without rushing.

## How do I get to Alquézar from Huesca, Zaragoza or Lleida?

By car. From Huesca, Turismo de Alquézar indicates the A-22 towards Barbastro and, about 15 km later, the exit for the A-1229 towards Abiego and Alquézar; from there it is about 20 km. Allow about 50 minutes. From Zaragoza you go up to Huesca on the A-23 and continue the same way, or go via Barbastro: about an hour and three quarters. From Lleida, the A-22 to Barbastro and then the Aínsa road, with the turn-off to Alquézar by the A-1232: a little under an hour and a half.

By public transport it is complicated: you have to reach Barbastro by bus and from there there is no practical connection for a day trip. This is a trip by car.

## Where do I park?

The streets of the old town are narrow and steep. Leave the car in the public car parks at the entrance and in the Arrabal and walk up. The Hotel Villa de Alquézar is one of the few places to stay with its own covered parking.

## What is there to do in Alquézar?

First are the Vero river walkways: 3 km circular in one direction, about two hours and 175 m of ascent, with seven sections of walkway anchored to the rock. It starts opposite the town hall and has access control: €5 from age 12, with an online ticket put on sale month by month. Under-11s don't pay, but need their own ticket.

At the top is the collegiate church of Santa María, with an entirely painted Romanesque cloister, from the 14th to the 18th centuries, and a museum of altarpieces. To understand the village, the guided visit to the medieval village from the tourist office lasts an hour and a half and ends at the Casa Fabián ethnological museum; it costs €8.

The River Vero flows below the village and its lower stretch is the area's beginner canyon, from €56 with a guide. About 10 km away, the Colungo centre organises visits to the rock art of the Vero, in shelters such as Arpán or Mallata. And half an hour away, towards Barbastro, the wineries of the DO Somontano begin, such as Enate, with its art collection.

## How much time do I need?

A day covers the walkways in the morning, lunch and the collegiate church or the guided visit in the afternoon. With a night you add a canyon, the rock art or a winery, and you see the village at night, when the visitors leave. Two nights, if you want to combine canyons and wine.

## When should I go?

In spring and autumn: the temperature is good for walking and the Vero carries water. In summer the final climb of the walkways is in the sun and it is best to go in first thing; it is the high season for canyons and the village fills up at weekends. In winter there is less going on, the tourist office runs guided visits only at weekends and many restaurants cut their days.

## Where do I eat on Sunday?

Casa Pardina is open on Sunday at midday all year: a €49 menu with oil tasting and Somontano wines, and the house's low-temperature ternasco lamb. The Mesón del Vero, in the Arrabal, is open every day except Wednesday, with charcoal-grilled ternasco, a terrace and a children's menu. La Cocineta has a set menu of the day and a terrace; call first, because it doesn't publish its hours.

## Where do I sleep?

With a car and family, the Hotel Villa de Alquézar, with a pool, spa and parking. As a couple, the Hotel Vinoteca, adults only. On a small budget, the Albergue Rural de Guara. And for canyons, motorhomes or winter, the Camping Alquézar, open all year.

## Dónde está
- Zonas: Pyrenees
- Cerca: Aínsa and the Sobrarbe (a 28.9 km), Ordesa Valley (a 53.5 km), Cirque de Gavarnie (a 58.2 km · France), Benasque Valley (a 63.3 km)

## Qué hacer
- **Río Vero Walkways** (2 h · 3 km · Walking from about age 8 · Desde 5 € per person): The walkways route goes down from the town to the bottom of the Vero canyon and returns on the other side: seven stretches of metal walkway anchored to the rock, the Picamartillo cave, an old weir and Alquézar's former hydroelectric plant, beside a pool. It is 3 km, circular and one-way, with 175 m of accumulated ascent and about two hours.
Tickets and hours
There is access control. Entry costs €5 from age 12 and €2 for members of the Aragonese Mountaineering Federation; under-11s do not pay, but each needs a ticket. It is bought online at pasarelasdealquezar.com, which opens sales month by month, at the start of the previous month. Entry is from 8:30 to 17:00, last entry. Sometimes it closes for a day for maintenance: check the website's notices before going.
The route
It starts on Calle Iglesia, opposite the Town Hall. From the Plaza Mayor you go down a stone ramp to the river following the "Pasarelas de Vero" signs. You follow the river by walkways and steps, pass the Picamartillo cave and the weir, reach the plant, and from there climb among olive trees towards the town, with the option of returning via the O Bicón viewpoint. There are steps and a steep slope on the final climb.
With children
Babies up to four years or 15 kg must go in a baby carrier: no pushchairs. Anyone carrying a child on their back must have their hands free the whole time. With children who walk, from about age eight the route is fine. The tourist office runs, on autumn weekends and public holidays, a three-hour interpretive visit at 10:00: €18 for adults, €12 for ages 8 to 15.
- **Collegiate Church of Santa María and Its Painted Cloister** (45 min · Everyone): At the very top of Alquézar, inside the castle precinct, stands the collegiate church of Santa María. It is the town's emblem and the reason for its name: there was a Muslim fortress here, and Alquézar comes from the Arabic al-qasr, the same word from which alcázar derives.
History
According to Turismo de Alquézar, the fortress was founded in the 9th century by the chieftain Jalaf ibn Rasid ibn Asad to halt the Christian advance from the north; towers and walls remain from it. In the 11th century King Sancho Ramírez conquered the castle and built a Romanesque church, part of whose cloister survives. The present church is 16th century. The office also tells the legend of the taking of the castle, with a maiden from Buera as its protagonist.
What to see
What makes the visit unique is the cloister: historiated capitals with scenes from the Old Testament and walls covered in fresco paintings from the 14th to the 18th century with scenes from the New. Turismo de Alquézar presents it as the only cloister in Aragon that survives entirely painted.
In the church the highlights are the polychrome altarpiece, a transition between Renaissance and Baroque, the chapels, the organ and the Christ of Lecina, the most prized piece: a pine-wood carving transitional between Romanesque and Gothic, with four nails, one in each hand and each foot. Turismo de Aragón dates it to the 13th century.
On the upper floor of the cloister, in a room that was the canons' bedroom, is the Museum of Sacred Art, with 15th-century altarpieces, painting and metalwork. Outside, look up at the central tower, the tallest on the wall, known as the esconjuradero: in the early 18th century the collegiate church had exorcists who rang the bells and invoked Saint Barbara to ward off storms.
How to visit
You walk up from the Plaza Mayor through the old town's streets. Tickets and the day's hours can be checked at turismoalquezar.es or at the tourist office (974 352 916), and they change with the season. The Río Vero Cultural Park gives the phone numbers 974 318 940, 974 318 267 and 669 681 044 for the museum.
To understand the town before climbing up, do the guided visit to the medieval town; afterwards, go down to the Vero walkways, which go round the town.
- **Guided Visit to the Medieval Town and the Casa Fabián Museum** (1 h 30 · Everyone · Desde 8 € per person): The tourist office runs a guided visit of an hour and a half through the historic centre, with accredited official Aragon guides, ending at the Casa Fabián ethnological museum. They tell the history of the town, its curiosities, anecdotes and legends, and the visit includes radio guides so you can hear the guide with more freedom while you take in the views.
Times and prices
In autumn and winter it only runs at weekends: Saturday at 11:00 and 16:30, and Sunday at 11:00. It is in Spanish; in English and French, on request. It costs €8; €5 for children, pensioners, Carné Joven holders and large families, and free up to age 6. Schoolchildren pay €4 up to age 16 and €6 from that age; groups from agencies, associations and adults, €6; accompanying guides and teachers do not pay.
Tickets are bought online at turismoalquezar.es or at the office, at Calle Pedro Arnal Cavero, 16. Private groups are not booked on the website: they are requested with the office's form, on 974 352 916 or at otalquezar@somontano.org.
The Casa Fabián museum
The end of the visit is what sets it apart. Casa Fabián is a 17th-century Aragonese house, at Calle Baja, 16, with about 350 pieces on the life, customs and folk arts of Alquézar and the Somontano. You tour the farm-tools room, the weights and measures room, the kitchen, the bedroom, the cellar and the water well. Many of the names of the tools are written in Aragonese dialect, which the older people of the place still use.
In the foundations there is a medieval olive-oil mill cut into the rock. For many years it was the town's press: families brought their olives, turned them into oil and, before taking it away, paid the tax that was called the décima here. The museum can only be seen on the guided visits organised by the tourist office.
Other visits from the office
The sunset visit with a glass of DOP Somontano wine is suspended for now. The office also runs an interpretive visit to the walkways, of about three hours: in autumn, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, for €18 for adults and €12 for ages 8 to 15. It is a mountain route with steep climbs and is not recommended for under-8s.
To combine with
The visit helps you understand the town; then go up on your own to the collegiate church of Santa María and its painted cloister, or go down to the Vero walkways.
- **Beginner Canyoning in the Lower Vero** (4 h 45 · Beginners, families with children used to water · Desde 55 € per person): The Vero canyon runs beneath Alquézar: its walls are the first thing you see on reaching the town and they continue about eight kilometres upriver, full of small caves and shelters, some with rock paintings. The lower stretch is the one companies choose for people who have never descended a canyon, because almost all of it can be done without technique and what frightens can be bypassed.
What the morning is like, from the office to the water
With Alquezar Aventura the outing is in the morning. You meet at their office, at the entrance to the town, next to the campsite; there you collect the equipment and meet the guide. You go up to Alquézar and from the town you walk down, in swimwear, to the river: about an hour of approach. On the bank you put on the wetsuit and the descent begins, about three hours in the water, with jumps, siphons, passages between boulders, dark stretches, down-climbs, natural slides, rapids and bits of walking in the river. The return takes another 45 minutes. In all, about five hours.
Guías Boira, whose office is on the Paseo San Hipólito in Alquézar, does the Vero as a circular on foot from the office: it is the only canyon in Guara where, according to the company, you do not need to take the car.
The Vero carries water all year, so in theory it can be descended in any season; in practice, the main season runs from spring to autumn. Both companies change the route or the date if the weather or flow requires it, and the guide decides.
With whom and how much
Alquezar Aventura publishes the lower Vero at €59 per person in groups of two or three and €56 from four, with wetsuit, booties, helmet, backpack and waterproof barrel. Minimum age, 7. The full Vero, advanced level, costs €79 and €74.
Guías Boira charges €55 per person for level I canyons and €60 for level II ones, with €55 for under-13s at that level, and includes wetsuit, helmet and neoprene socks. Guide in Spanish, French or English. On its website it lists the Vero among the canyons for children aged 5 or 6 in summer; confirm when you book according to your children's age and ease in the water.
If jumping scares you
You do not need to know anything about canyoning, but you do need to be comfortable in the water and able to put up with a morning of walking. The jumps and almost all the difficult passages can be avoided; tell the guide at the start. If anyone in the group has an injury, an illness or a phobia, Alquezar Aventura asks that you say so at the office before setting out.
What to bring
Swimwear on, trainers that can get wet, food and water for the morning, a towel and dry clothes for the car. Anything that should not get wet, leave in the car. If you need it, Alquezar Aventura rents equipment piece by piece at the campsite reception.
Afterwards, the Vero walkways show the same canyon from above and dry, and the Alquezar Aventura listing explains how it books and cancels. The canyon opens the canyons and Somontano weekend.
- **Rock Art of the Vero River, from the Colungo Centre** (3 h · Families and the curious): The Vero canyon holds shelters with prehistoric paintings declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Colungo Rock Art Centre, about 10 km from Alquézar, explains the whole group and is the contact point for the guided visits to the shelters, run by the guides of the Río Vero Cultural Park.
The Colungo centre
It offers a journey through 22,000 years of Vero prehistory in three spaces: the Casa Museo, with general information on rock art, the cultures that lived along the river and its surroundings; the Archaeological Park, with reproductions of Neolithic huts, a dolmen and a tumulus; and the Fuente del Trucho Cave Space, on the only cave in Aragon with Palaeolithic paintings. There are recreations, models, audiovisuals and audioguides in several languages, and prehistory workshops for all audiences.
In autumn 2026 it opens at weekends and long weekends until 8 December, from 10:00 to 14:30, with no booking. It is at Calle Las Braules, 2, in Colungo.
The shelters with a guided visit
The Park has prepared five visitable sites, with a starting panel and signs. The three that appear most in the calendar:

Arpán: the most complete display, with Levantine and schematic art in red; a naturalistic deer and an archer with his bow drawn. You leave the A-2205, 9 km from Colungo towards Arcusa, and walk about 35 minutes.
Mallata: shelters hanging above the canyon, from the Vero viewpoint, 11 km from Colungo, with about 20 minutes' walk and metal stairs. Schematic art with human figures leading tethered deer.
Barfaluy: from the square in Lecina, nearly an hour through the holm-oak scrub to the cliffs of the Barranco de la Choca. Schematic art in red and black, with a group of eleven goats.

Regacens, Quizans and Chimiachas have signposted routes for going on your own.
How to organise it
The guided visits need booking at parqueculturalriovero.com and leave from meeting points, each date to a different shelter. The autumn 2026 poster shows departures on the Constitution Day long weekend and between Christmas and Epiphany. Information at cicolungo@somontano.org, on 974 318 185 (weekends, 10:00 to 14:00) or on 974 306 006 (weekdays, 9:00 to 14:00), where visits outside the calendar can also be arranged. Wear hiking footwear, and bring water and sun protection.
To combine with
In the afternoon, the guided visit to the medieval town of Alquézar or the collegiate church.
- **Visit to the Enate Winery, Vineyard and Art in Salas Bajas** (1 h 30 · Adults): Enate is a DO Somontano winery at Avenida de las Artes, 1, in Salas Bajas, half an hour from Alquézar towards Barbastro. It presents itself as both a winery and a museum: the visit goes through the vineyard and the barrel room, ends with the wines and passes through its collection of contemporary art.
The visit
The basic experience, which the Spanish Association of Wine Cities (ACEVIN) lists as "The Art of Wine", is a guided tour of an hour and a half around the facilities, in Spanish. It includes a visit to and explanation of the contemporary art gallery, with works by Tàpies, Chillida, Saura and Pepe Cerdá, and a tasting of three wines. At the end you can order separately an appetiser of Iberian ham or Manchego cheese. ACEVIN lists it at €18 per person, does not recommend it for under-10s and asks you to arrive at the winery ten minutes before the time.
Experiences and events
As well as the visit, the winery programmes:

Pairing Saturdays, on the first Saturday of each month: visit, gallery and a tasting of five of the house's wines with gourmet products that change each month. ACEVIN lists it at €29.90 and warns that it does not run with fewer than 8 sign-ups.
The Wine of Art: gallery, wines and a small appetiser.
Tardeo and wine bar, Tuesday to Friday.
Barbecue among the vineyards, with a visit to the gallery and a tasting.

The ACEVIN prices may not be up to date: the current ones appear when you book.
Booking
Visits and experiences are booked at visitas.enate.es, where the free dates and the price of each appear, or on 974 30 25 80; also by email at bodega.enate@grupoenate.es. According to its terms of sale, tickets are non-refundable in the 24 hours before the visit. Whoever is driving should taste without swallowing. There is a shop for buying wine afterwards.
Getting there
From Alquézar it is about 30 minutes by car towards Barbastro, to Salas Bajas. The address for the satnav is Avenida de las Artes, 1, 22314 Salas Bajas (Huesca).
To combine with
It is a good afternoon plan after a morning on the Vero walkways or the visit to the collegiate church. If you want to carry on with local wine without driving, the Hotel Vinoteca Alquézar is in the town itself.

## Dónde comer
- **Casa Pardina** (Restaurant, Alquézar, €€€). Qué pedir: the low-temperature Aragon ternasco, and the Casa Pardina menu, which includes the oil tasting and the wines
- **Brasería Mesón del Vero** (Restaurant, Alquézar, €€). Qué pedir: the charcoal-grilled Aragon ternasco, awarded in 2024 as the best traditional roast ternasco in Huesca
- **La Cocineta** (Restaurant, Alquézar, €€). Qué pedir: the menu of the day at midday, and a home-made dessert

## By car: The Car, in the Upper Car Park
You reach Alquézar by car: from Huesca along the A-22 and the A-1229 via Abiego, about 50 minutes; from Lleida or Zaragoza, via Barbastro. The old town's streets are narrow: leave the car in the public car parks and do the rest on foot. You will need it for Colungo, the canyons and the wineries.
Presupuesto orientativo: 60–120 € por persona y día.
### Dónde dormir if you're driving
- **Hotel Villa de Alquézar** (Hotel, desde 95 € / night): The Villa de Alquézar is a family hotel in a restored old manor house on Calle Pedro Arnal Cavero, the street that enters the old town, a few steps from the tourist office. In a town of narrow streets where the car is left outside, what you appreciate most is its own covered car park: spaces are limited and assigned in order of arrival.
Ten room types, from €95 to €206
The hotel arranges its rooms by size, with and without a terrace, in standard and superior versions. "From" prices published in November 2026, per night and with breakfast:

Standard single without terrace, €95; with terrace, €118; superior with terrace, €139.
Standard double without terrace, €102; with terrace, €128; superior with terrace, €144.
Standard triple with terrace, €155; superior, €180.
Standard quadruple with terrace, €175; superior, €206.

The standard double with terrace is 30 m², with a double bed or two beds, private bathroom, television, wifi, air conditioning and heating, and a furnished terrace that, depending on the room, looks onto the town and its castle, the Vero canyon or the fields of the Somontano. It admits an extra bed for €31 a night with breakfast, and the cot is free.
Breakfast and the lounges
Breakfast is included in all rates, and more can be ordered for companions. For the evenings there is a lounge with a fireplace and a small library, and a garden where an old restored cistern is preserved.
Pool from May to September, spa from November to March
The outdoor pool opens from May to September, from 9:00 to 20:00 if the weather allows, with drinks service on the next-door terrace. The spa works the other way round: closed in summer, it opens from November to March Friday to Sunday, from 11:00 to 21:00, in one-hour sessions by reservation. It has a jacuzzi, neck waterfall, bubble beds, bithermal shower and a relaxation area, and costs €32 per person for guests and €38 for those not sleeping at the hotel; it is not included in any room. Bring swimwear and flip-flops; the hotel provides a bathrobe or towel. For children there are rules and hours of their own: ask at reception.
What to know before booking
Check-in is from 14:00 and check-out until 11:00. It does not admit pets and smoking is not allowed inside. Phone 974 31 84 16 and email info@villadealquezar.com.
From the door, the Vero walkways start a few minutes' walk away and the collegiate church of Santa María is at the top of the town. For dinner without a car, Casa Pardina is on Calle Medio.
- **Hotel Vinoteca Alquézar** (Small hotel): Sergio and Marta run this small, adults-only country hotel in the highest part of Alquézar. They love wine, and it shows: the seven double rooms are named after varieties grown in the Somontano, and for anyone interested they recommend wineries to visit on the Wine Route.
Seven grapes, seven rooms
All are doubles, from 18 to 28 m², with a shower, television, safe, desk and free wifi. They differ in the bed and, above all, in what you see from the window:

Riesling, the largest, 28 m² and a 160 bed, with a terrace looking onto the collegiate church.
Parraleta, 21 m², on the corner, a 150 bed and a terrace onto the collegiate church.
Chardonnay, 18 m², a 180 bed that can be split into two if requested beforehand, and a balcony onto the collegiate church.
Alcañón, 19 m², a 160 bed and views of the collegiate church.
Moristel, 20 m², a 150 bed, views of the collegiate church and adapted for people with reduced mobility.
Tempranillo, 20 m², a 150 bed, facing north and with views of the hillside.
Garnacha, 19 m², a 160 bed and a balcony onto a pedestrian street, with no views.

If you come for the scenery, the Riesling and the Parraleta are the ones with a terrace; the Garnacha, which faces a pedestrian street, is the quietest according to the house, but has no views. The website does not publish fixed rates: the price appears in its booking engine for each date.
You have the breakfast you order
Breakfast is à la carte: you choose what you want from the menu and pay only for what you have, with local produce whenever possible. The house explains it as a way of not throwing food away in such a small hotel. It also serves à la carte dinners, so you can dine without going back down the village's slopes.
At the very top, with the car close
Being at the highest point of Alquézar gives you the views and has another advantage: the paid public car park is next door, and you do not have to lug your suitcases through the old town. Check-in is from 16:00 and check-out until 12:00. Book on the website, on 648 959 889 or at reservas@hotelvinotecaalquezar.com.
Couples who come for Guara and the wine
For couples and adult friends who come to walk in Guara, descend a canyon or do tastings. It does not admit children. From here, the collegiate church of Santa María is a short walk; for a winery visit, Enate is in Salas Bajas, and the canyons and Somontano weekend combines the two.
- **Albergue Rural de Guara** (Hostel): Cheap and inside the town
The Albergue Rural de Guara, which also presents itself as the Albergue Refugio de Guara, is on Calle Pilaseras, in the upper part of Alquézar. It receives school groups, families, couples and people who come to do canyons and walk in the Sierra de Guara. It describes itself with facilities and services similar to those of a hotel, but without a kitchen for guests: it makes this clear, a hostel is not a country house.
Rooms and prices
All rooms have their own bathroom and heating. There is no air conditioning; the house explains that nights, because of the mountain climate, tend to be cool.

Doubles with terrace or balcony: 1.80 m bed or two 90 cm beds, with a possible extra bed. They include bed and bath linen, cleaning and breakfast. From €74.
Bunk rooms for groups and families, for six or eight, with bathroom and balcony. From €34.50 per person, with a minimum of three, and breakfast included. A mattress cover, sleeping-bag liner, pillowcase, blanket and towel are provided.
Single beds in a shared room: write beforehand so they can arrange the allocation.

The exact rates for each date appear in its online booking.
Breakfasts and dinners
Breakfast is a buffet at €8.50 (€7 for under-12s): coffee, tea, juice, chocolate, toast, pastries, cereals, fruit, cured meats and yoghurt, among other things. The room rates already include it. Anyone who does not want the full breakfast can use the café-bar.
Dinner is a menu of first course, second course and dessert with a drink for €18.50 (€14 for children under 12), and is served by reservation only. When you book you see the planned menu and, when possible, you choose; there are alternative dishes. Lunches are not served at midday, except for groups.
Common areas
A common lounge for up to 60 people with a fireplace, bar and television, a terrace with views of the town (neither the lounge nor the terrace has waiter service), storage for bicycles and sports equipment and free wifi in the common areas. The website also advertises a pool, without indicating the season: ask if that is what you are after.
Booking and getting there
Book online, by phone on 974 318 396 or by WhatsApp on 620 956 979; for groups, it is better to call. The old town's streets are narrow and steep: leave the car in the public car parks at the entrance or in the Arrabal and walk up with only what you need. From here you can walk to the collegiate church of Santa María and the Vero walkways, and it is a good base for canyoning in the Vero.
- **Camping Alquézar** (Campsite, desde 18 € / pitch): At the entrance to the town, open all year
The Camping Alquézar is on the Barbastro road, at the entrance to the town, within the Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park, and presents itself as the only campsite in the Aragonese Pre-Pyrenees open all year. The historic centre is about 1.6 km away, by a direct path you walk.
Where to sleep

Pitches averaging about 50 m² for a tent, caravan, camper or motorhome, from €18.
Kampaoh glamping tents, 12 to 24 m², from €40.
Bungalows of one and two storeys, 10 to 30 m², from €60.
New tiny houses, 12 to 19 m², for couples, friends or families, from €100.
Apartments in the historic centre, from €75, managed separately.

Prices are per night and "from": the price for your date appears in its booking. For bungalows, mobile homes, tiny houses and Kampaoh, check-in is from 16:00 and check-out before 11:00; for pitches, check-in is from 12:00 and check-out until 12:00.
Pets are admitted in most accommodation: bungalows, mobile homes, pitches, "Emperador" Kampaoh tents and some tiny house models. The Tiny Yuca, Tiny Dream and Tiny Play do not accept them yet; confirm the conditions when you book.
Services
Two pools, a large one 0.90 to 1.45 m deep and a children's one 0.35 m deep, open from mid-June to September depending on the weather; in July and August there is also a relaxation area and a pool bar. The supermarket has Somontano and Guara products and the day's bread, and opens every day from 9:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00. Opposite, with the same hours, is the petrol station, the only one in more than 20 km.
The Las Melias restaurant, opposite the campsite, serves breakfasts, lunches, dinners and picnics for activities. There is a washing machine and tumble dryer paid for in cash, shared sinks, microwave and freezer, free wifi, playground, ping-pong, pétanque and free parking. From 1 April to 15 October Aragonese law prohibits making fires with wood or charcoal; at reception they rent gas barbecues.
Canyons and what to do
Opposite is Alquezar Aventura, which organises canyons and via ferratas, and at the campsite they rent wetsuits, helmets, harnesses and waterproof barrels. The campsite recommends two to four nights for a first visit: the Vero walkways, canyoning in the Vero, the rock art of the Vero and the Enate winery on the Somontano route. Spring and autumn are good for walking; summer, for the water canyons.

## As a family: Walkways, Paintings and a First Canyon

Alquézar works with children who already walk: the walkways route is the plan for the day and under-11s do not pay. With little ones in carriers it can also be done, but without a pushchair.

### What works best
The Vero walkways: 3 km and two hours, with steps

The guided visit to the town and the Casa Fabián museum, free up to age 6

The Colungo rock art centre and its workshops

The lower Vero, the beginner canyon, with children used to water

### Sleep
Hotel Villa de Alquézar: triples, quadruples and a pool

Camping Alquézar: bungalows and a children's pool

Albergue Rural de Guara: rooms for six and eight with bathroom

### Eat
Mesón del Vero, with a children's menu and terrace

### Keep in mind
On the walkways, babies up to 4 years or 15 kg in a baby carrier

Each child needs their own walkways ticket, even if it is free

In summer, set out early: the final climb is in the sun

### Qué hacer as a family
- Río Vero Walkways
- Collegiate Church of Santa María and Its Painted Cloister
- Guided Visit to the Medieval Town and the Casa Fabián Museum
- Beginner Canyoning in the Lower Vero
- Rock Art of the Vero River, from the Colungo Centre

## With teenagers: A Canyon to Descend Getting Wet

For a teenager, Alquézar is the gateway to the Sierra de Guara: canyons, walkways over the river and paintings thousands of years old in shelters you reach on foot.

### What works best
A guided canyon: the lower Vero to start

The Vero walkways, with steps and rock

The Colungo rock art shelters, with a walk to reach them

### Sleep
Camping Alquézar, with a pool and the canyoning company on site

Albergue Rural de Guara, with group rooms

### Eat
Charcoal-grilled ternasco at the Mesón del Vero

### Keep in mind
Ask about the minimum age for each canyon when you book

The Collegiate Church and the museum bore many: keep them short

### Qué hacer with teenagers
- Río Vero Walkways
- Guided Visit to the Medieval Town and the Casa Fabián Museum
- Beginner Canyoning in the Lower Vero
- Rock Art of the Vero River, from the Colungo Centre

## Consejos

### Buy the walkways ticket in good time
Sales open a month ahead and the weekend slots run out.

### Do the walkways early
The final climb is in the sun and at midday there are more people.

### Ask about the collegiate church's opening hours
They change with the season: the tourist office will tell you.

### Mountain footwear
Even the village streets are polished rock.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### How much does the walkways route cost?
€5 from age 12 and €2 for members of the Aragonese mountaineering federation. Under-11s go in free, with their ticket.

### Do I need to book the walkways?
Yes: there is access control and the ticket is bought online at pasarelasdealquezar.com.

### Can I do it with small children?
Yes, but without a pushchair: babies up to 4 years or 15 kg go in a baby carrier.

### How long does it take from Huesca to Alquézar?
About 50 minutes by car, along the A-22 and the A-1229 via Abiego.

### What is open in Alquézar on Sunday?
The tourist office, from 9:30 to 17:00; the walkways, from 8:30 to 17:00; the 11:00 guided visit, and restaurants such as Casa Pardina and the Mesón del Vero.

### Where can I go canyoning near Alquézar?
In the lower Vero, for beginners, with companies from the village such as Alquezar Aventura or Guías Boira.