Huesca Province, Spain

Huesca Province, Spain

Huesca Province Spain

Huesca is a province in northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. Its capital is the city of Huesca. Located just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées. Within Spain, its neighboring provinces are Navarre, Zaragoza, and Lleida. The Romans colonized the province of Huesca, which formed the northern part of Hispania Tarraconensis, and they remained there well into the 5th century, until the arrival of the Visigoths. As a mountainous frontier region, it was difficult to dominate. The northern counties had at one time belonged to the Kingdom of Navarre but later split off and managed to stem early Moorish invasions in the Middle Ages by forming alliances among themselves and with the Franks, becoming Frankish feudal marches. The drive for sovereignty, or independence, among these northern border counts gave rise to the Kingdom of Aragon, which later became the basis for the Crown of Aragon and, ultimately, the Kingdom of Spain.
Recommended airport
Lleida-Alguaire Airport (ILD)
Nearby destinations
  • Huesca a 20.25 km
  • Broto a 49.21 km
  • Barbastro a 28.35 km