The Pool of Albore, next to Sotonera Reservoir, is one of the points of interest in Hoya de Huesca. Thousands of cranes spend some time in this natural location each year, and the village of Montmesa has an exhibition centre about birds that you can visit. La Alberca has become the main resting area for the crane in recent years, after Gallocanta.
>> Opening: this center opens in the season of migration of cranes, between November and the end of March, weekends and holidays (apart from the arranged visits to groups during the week).
Mallos de Riglos, with its amazing views, is home to one of the most numerous griffin vulture colonies, and this exhibition centre caters for these most singular birds in the environment. The various rooms of the centre are spread over three floors, and include monitors broadcasting live images from video cameras. (video).
The building is accessible to persons with mobility disabilities.
** For reasons beyond our control, the Arcaz Center will be closed during this season, until further notice. We are sorry for the inconvenience**
arcaz@hoyadehuesca.es Tel. +34 974 233030
The Salto de Roldán Space is not only a center of interpretation of nature, it is also a trip to the past within a privileged environment in which culture and traditions coexist in a mountain landscape.
The building, known for its architecture (García Mercadal Award) houses in its interior several exhibitions that bring us closer to the knowledge of the plants, customs and old trades that were developed in the nearby villages.
The exterior area surrounding the building stimulates the visitors' senses by strolling through the botanical garden with its sensory corridors of aromatic plants and its privileged views of the Hoya de Huesca and Sierra de Guara.
Also from this Space we propose an interpretative route that brings us to the town of Sabayés, on the tour we will pass through various humanized landscapes, orchards, fountains, cobbled roads preserved as hundreds of years ago until arriving to the town, which surprises us with its cellars, walls, arches and towers, typical of a defensive nucleus of the Middle Ages.
The Salto de Roldán Space is also a tourist information point where maps are offered and different routes are explained according to levels and themes. It is also "bike point" where tools are offered to clean, repair and inflate bicycles.
There is a sale of drinks and coffees and an outdoor terrace area.
> OPENING TIMETABLE 2019:
SPRING:
April: from 13 to 23; 27 and 28). Weekends and holidays. (10 -14h. )
May: weekends. (10 - 14h)
June: weekends (1,2,8,9,15,16). School calendar from 21 to 30, Tuesday to Sunday. (10 - 14h)
SUMMER:
July and August, from Tuesday to Sunday (11 - 14h and 16 - 19h).
September: from 1 to 8, Tuesday to Sunday (10 -14h) Rest of the month, weekends (same schedule).
AUTUMN - WINTER:
October and November: weekends and holidays (10 - 14h).
December: weekends and school holidays (11 - 14h).
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* January to Easter 2020: Closed
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This museum, ‘The House of Vultures’, is located at the top of the church of Santa Cilia de Panzano where there are 4 light and sound showcases with explanations for visitors in four languages.
The large video screen shows unedited scenes of the development of a number of Egyptian, Bearded and other vultures around the nearby midden of “A Pedriza”, where these predators congregate, attracted by the food provided by the Friends of the Vulture Fund.
The video camera installed at the midden has captured some exceptional sequences and unique close-ups, which are complemented in the museum by the expressive scenes of bird of prey models, made of hemp and of a natural size and scale.
>> Visit 360º to Vultures Feeding show
