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What to see and do in Bárcabo

What to see and do in Bárcabo (Sobrarbe, Huesca): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Bárcabo

Church of Bárcabo 50 m
Sierra and Canyons of Guara 15 km

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What to see and do in Bárcabo

Bárcabo
Village
Bárcabo is a municipality in the south of the comarca of Sobrarbe, in the province of Huesca, beside the cañón del río Vero. Part of its territory, which also includes the villages of Almazorre, Betorz, Eripol, Hospitaled, Lecina, Santa María de la Nuez and Suelves, lies within the parque natural de la Sierra y los Cañones de Guara. It has an area of 87.92 km² and a population of 116 inhabitants (INE 2025). Its main festival is that of Santa Cecilia, on 22 November, with two days of celebrations and a round of musicians.
Church of Bárcabo
Monument
Church of San Juan Bautista, originating in the 16th century over an earlier Romanesque church of which the south wall, the chrismon and the atrium window are preserved; it was transformed in the 17th century along Baroque lines.
Sierra and Canyons of Guara
Nature
The Parque Natural de la Sierra y los Cañones de Guara, in the province of Huesca, extends across the districts of Alto Gállego, Hoya de Huesca, Sobrarbe and Somontano de Barbastro, with Bárcabo among the municipalities it covers and its northern boundary in Sobrarbe. With 47,453 hectares and a peripheral protection zone of a further 33,286 hectares, it is the largest natural area in Aragon, with altitudes ranging from 430 metres at the Alcanadre river to 2,077 metres at the peak of Guara. Its geology, well suited to canyoning and climbing, makes it a world reference for these sports, with canyons such as that of the Balcés river, more than 20 kilometres long. It was declared a natural park in 1990.
Festivities of Bárcabo
Activity
The main festival of Bárcabo, in Sobrarbe (Huesca), was that of Santa Cecilia, the patroness celebrated on 22 November over two days, with a ronda of musicians who went through the streets of the village and enlivened the celebration throughout the festive day.
The rock art of Barfaluy, World Heritage
Historical milestone
UNESCO included in 1998 the rock shelters of the Choca ravine, above Lecina, in the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin; their almost sixty schematic paintings were made between the Neolithic and the Metal Ages.