Excellent choice for a Easter holiday, the Val d’Aran offers a unique environment that allows you to enjoy moments for everything: from disconnection and silence in places of great beauty and charming like Romanesque churches that invite you to the contemplation and meditation, to the most extreme adventure in mountains, canyons and rivers.
The destination is ideal for a family visit, with multiple sports activities for children in touch with nature, and other cultural and recreational proposals in the museums and villages of the valley. And all this without forgetting that the Val d’Aran has an excellent commercial and gastronomic offer for all tastes.
Children activities
Children will not have time to get bored with the many distractions especially addressed to them. Fun in the playgrounds of Baqueira or learn in the ski schools, meet our bears Ben and Luna and the lovely animals of the wildlife park Aran Park, the exciting adventures in Naturaran or to spend a pleasant afternoon skating on the Palai de Gèu. In addition, under the festival Pyrenades
there are organized various workshops for children and an introductory course in mountaineering.
Snow activities
You are still in time to take advantage of the last days of the hibernal season on the slopes of Baqueira Beret, practicing skiing, snowboarding or any other of the many snow activities performed in the station. Leisure sports centers of the valley have also prepared you nice outings with snowshoes or free ski to discover the remotest places.
Nature
The best way to discover the natural environment of the Val d’Aran are the excursions, whether hiking and cycling, as well as moturismo, routes by car or even by horse. The Tourist offices of the valley have updated information on the tracks and open access in every season information, they propose a. ppropriate options to the preferences and needs of visitors and advise on companies of specialized guides that help to know the territory to go out in a safer way.
Adventure
With the arrival of the first school groups, before the start of the Easter holidays began in the Val d’Aran a a new season of adventure sports: rafting, hydrospeed or Naturaran adventure park are some of the options, although Deportur and Camins, companies that are responsible for implementing them, will propose you many more.
The most intrepid ask for strong emotions as Vias ferratas. In the Val d’Aran there are three routes of different levels of difficulty: Via Ferrata de Les, Via Ferrata Poi d’Unha and Via ferrata Cledes (Les), the latter newly opened this season.
Culture
You will love the visits to the villages in the valley, each with its church, some real treasures, both for its architectural quality as paintings or sculptural that we found inside, an artistic legacy of great variety and exceptional richness. We encourage you to discover them through Cultural thematic routes of the Val d’Aran.
We also advise to profit the last days of the temporary exhibition Umans e Natura in Santa Maria de Arties and visit the Museum of the Val d’Aran and the Musèu dera Nhèu, a thematic center unique in Europe.
Also these days is celebrated in the Val d’Aran the Pyrenades Festival, an event on Pyreneism offering a full program of walks, conferences, screenings, exhibitions and music for all audiences.
Traditions, trade and gastronomy
The followers of the Easter traditions cannot miss Bossòst processions, the only village in the valley that has genuinely preserved them. They take place on Good Friday and Easter Sunday and have become a great tourist and cultural interest of the town.
In addition, Bossòst and Arties organize this days a craft market with typical local products. We recommend you to try the elaborations of marca de garantía Val d’Aran and, of course!, the cuisine of the Aranese restaurants.
And do not forget to spend an afternoon in Vielha, walking through its lively streets with good shopping offer and to stop in its charming corners with history. And one last tip: finish the visit with a pintxos route through the town, they’re really delicious and original!