Ascaso

Ascaso is a village in the municipality of Boltaña, in theprovince of Huesca. It belongs to the Sobrarbe region, in theautonomous community of Aragon.

Ascaso is located in a small mound to 1000 m. high on the Ara Rivervalley. Today is a quiet place, surrounded by nature, traversed by thePrime Meridian. There is, prominent on the white chalk, a beautifulsundial with a strange and unusual inscription: "Cuando me relumbre elsol acercate paso a paso, y sabras la hora que es en esto rel&oacutede Ascaso" (more or less in English: "When the sun glare, I get closerstep by step, and you'll know what time it is in this Ascaso clock").

Accessed by a forest track of 4 kilometers, of which only 1 ispaved...It's hard the life for its residents in this beautiful villagein the Pyrenees of Huesca in the XXI century.

 

 

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