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What to see and do in Aguilón

What to see and do in Aguilón (Campo de Cariñena, Zaragoza): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Aguilón

Church of Aguilón 50 m
Hermitage of Aguilón 50 m

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What to see and do in Aguilón

Aguilón
Village
Aguilón is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, in the region of the Campo de Cariñena, situated 55 kilometres from the capital and at 683 metres of altitude. On 20 September 1921 a flash flood in the ravine caused seventeen deaths and the collapse of forty houses, one of the gravest episodes in its history. The area has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic, as shown by the site of the caves of the Cerro del Pezón, with traces of the last Neanderthals of the Sistema Ibérico, and it also has Bronze Age remains at the Peña Foradada. After the Roman conquest, the first villas or fundi were formed in the area, which would give rise to the settlement of Aguilón, linked since 1280 to the archpriesthood of Belchite, within the diocese of Zaragoza. It has 265 inhabitants.
Church of Aguilón
Monument
Church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Aguilón, in the village where a flash flood in the ravine caused seventeen deaths on 20 September 1921.
Festivities of Aguilón
Activity
Patron saint festivities of Aguilón from 11 to 15 August, in honour of San Pedro de Arbués and Santa Cristina; on Easter Monday San Cristóbal is celebrated and on 15 May San Isidro Labrador.
Festivities of invierno de Aguilón
Activity
Aguilón's winter festival is held in a village where a sudden flash flood from the ravine devastated the town centre on 20 September 1921, killing seventeen residents and destroying forty houses.
Hermitage of Aguilón
Monument
Hermitage in the municipal district of Aguilón, a village where a sudden flash flood from the ravine devastated the town centre on 20 September 1921, killing seventeen residents and destroying forty houses.
Flood of the Aguilón ravine
Historical milestone
A sudden flash flood of the barranco del Fresno, on whose slope the village sits, devastated Aguilón on 20 September 1921, after days of rain that made that month the wettest in nearly a century in the Zaragoza area. Seventeen residents died, forty houses were destroyed and more than two hundred people lost their homes; the village was left cut off, without electricity and with its two halves separated by the waters. The flood, which took the name of Aguilón as the worst-affected locality, also damaged Azuara and Herrera de los Navarros and, further downstream, reached in Zaragoza the highest flow ever recorded on the Huerva, with flooding as far as the Basílica del Pilar. In 2021 the town council commemorated the centenary with a monument to the victims.