Camping Castillo De Loarre

Loarre Castle about a kilometre from the site was once a mighty important stronghold between Christian and Muslim Spain. There's still a good bit of it to see these days – and if you've seen Ridley Scott's 2013 film Kingdom of Heaven, you'll likely recognise its scenic setting on top of the Sierra de Loarre. More old piles of the must-see sort are 30 kilometres away in Huesca, including the 13th-century Huesca Cathedral and the 12th-century Monastery of San Pedro el Viejo, the oldest Romanesque building on the Iberian peninsula. About an hour north of Loarre, the old city of Jaca on the French border was once the capital of Aragon: drive up here to see its medieval walls, 11th-century cathedral and its 16th-century citadel, now home to a colony of rock sparrows. If you prefer to be active rather than historical, horse riding is within a couple of hundred metres of the site, paragliding 750 metres away, and whitewater rafting on the Gallégo river reachable in 10 kilometres. More peacefully, you could also drink your merry way around the Somontano Wine Route, one of 13 official wine routes in Spain.