Travel Guide Parc National D’ordesa - Monte Perdido

Declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1997, this national park was created in 1918 and today covers 15,600 hectares. Dominated by the Las Tres Sorores massif, with three peaks, Monte Perdido, Cilindro and Soum Ramond, it is an impressive set of cliffs, rocky masses, canyons (Ordesa and Anisclo), gorges (Eschain), gorges and cirques (So Caso, Cotajuero or la Carriata), not to mention the frozen lake of Marbore. A landscape that is reminiscent of the great canyons of Colorado with, here as there, vertiginous aplombs. The high mountain areas, which are devoid of vegetation except for edelweiss, alternate with more accessible and wooded areas. Here live chamois in large numbers, but also foxes and wild boars. Rarer, the ibex: these large wild goats of the Pyrenees, whose species, very recognizable by its spiral horns, is becoming rare. The main access to the park is located next to the village of Torla and allows you to discover the Ordesa valley, dating from the ice age, which extends from east to west. At the entrance to Ordesa Park, Savisé is a starting point for horseback riding, hiking through the woods or cross-country skiing. The other three routes of the national park can be reached from the road to Ainsa, in the direction of France.