Alto Arán

"Alto Arán(Naut Aran oficialmente y en aranés; Alt Aran en catalán) es un municipio del Valle de Arán, en la provincia de Lérida, en Cataluña, España. Se formó en 1967 por la fusión de los de Arties, Salardú, Gesa, Tredós y Bagergue. Es el municipio más extenso de todo el Valle de Arán. La capital es el pueblo de Salardú y comprende nueve entidades municipales: Artiés, Bagergue, Garós, Gessa, Montgarri, Salardú, Tredós, Uña y Baqueira. El acceso al municipio desde la cara sur de los Pirineos se realiza mediante la carretera que atraviesa el Puerto de Bonaigua. En el municipio de Alto Arán se encuentra la estación de esquí de Baqueira Beret, una de las más extensas de los Pirineos."

"Naut Aran (Occitan pronunciation: [nawt aan]) is a municipality in the comarca of the Aran in Catalonia, Spain. It is the second largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of surface area (225.8 km², behind Tremp), and was created in 1967 by the merger of the municipalities of Arties, Salardú, Gessa, Tredòs and Bagergue: the former municipalities retain some privileges as "decentralised municipal entities" (entitats municipals descentralitzades, EMD). The name literally means "Upper Valley" in Aranese, and both the Garonne (Garona) and the Noguera Pallaresa have their sources on the territory of the municipality. The town hall is in Salardú. The municipality is linked to Vielha by the C-28 road, which continues to Alt Àneu over the Port de la Bonaigua (2072 m). This road, the higher stretches of which are impassable in winter, was the only route between the Aran Valley and the rest of Spain before the opening of the Vielha tunnel in 1948. The local economy is based almost entirely on tourism and winter sports. The ski resort of Vaquèira-Beret is one of the largest in the Pyrenees. A number of local churches have been classified as historic-artistic monuments: * church of Sant Andreu de Salardú, which houses a thirteenth-century sculpture of Christ (el Crist de Salardú) * church of Santa Maria, in Arties * church of Santa Eulària d'Unha (twelfth century)"