Sierra de Guara

Travel Notes

Sierra de Guara has become a playground for the summer. What was once an escape away weekend for us became a yearly event either to jumpstart the summer or to wrap up the summer. Just three hours from Barcelona, we were able to find a place that suits our liking and be together with friends to catch up with what’s going with our lives.

Getting together makes this group plan for outdoors for the year.

A Landscape of Silence and Adventure

Tucked away in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees, Sierra de Guara is a captivating region where raw nature, geological drama, and ancient heritage converge. Known for its spectacular canyons, limestone cliffs, and hidden ravines, it has become a mecca for adventure seekers, especially those drawn to canyoning, hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

But Sierra de Guara is more than a playground for the adventurous. It is also a place of stillness and solitude, dotted with abandoned medieval villages, hermitages carved into rock, and vultures circling the sky. The natural park, officially named Parque Natural de la Sierra y los Cañones de Guara, stretches across the province of Huesca in Aragón, and offers a richly textured landscape where the elements have carved stories into stone over millennia.

Whether you're wandering the narrow paths of Alquézar, plunging into turquoise pools in Rodellar, or simply listening to the wind ripple through the juniper trees, Sierra de Guara invites you to slow down, explore deeply, and reconnect—with nature, with time, and with yourself.