Alberg Pic de l’Àliga

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Fancy a cheap sleep 2122m above sea level? This youth hostel in a spacious lodge is perched at the top of the telecabina (cable car) whizzing up from Núria. Dorms sleep three to 18 people and it has a cafe, board games and a common room for mingling with other travellers.

The hostel has serious green credentials thanks to new solar panels and a geothermal heating system completed in 2019.

The cable car (return €6) runs from 9am to 5pm daily (9.15am to 6pm mid-July to mid-September), or you can walk up from Núria in 30 minutes.

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll.

    Monestir de Santa Maria

    13.26 MILES

    Consecrated in CE 888, Ripoll's monastery was Catalonia’s spiritual and cultural heart from the mid-10th to mid-11th century. The five-naved basilica was…

  • Monestir de Sant Joan de les Abadesses

    Monestir de Sant Joan de les Abadesses

    12.76 MILES

    Who gallops through the hills around Sant Joan de les Abadesses on stormy nights, on a horse engulfed in flames and accompanied by ravenous black dogs? If…

  • Chateau Puilaurens, one of the cathar castles in south France.

    Château de Puilaurens

    29.3 MILES

    In a lofty location 63km northwest of Perpignan via the D117, turreted Puilaurens is perhaps the most dramatic of the Cathar fortresses. It has the full…

  • Sant Joan les Fonts

    Sant Joan les Fonts

    21.77 MILES

    Some 6km northeast of Olot, Sant Joan les Fonts has some lovely forest just beyond the village centre. From the Oficina de Turisme, you can pick up…

  • Santuari de la Mare de Déu

    Santuari de la Mare de Déu

    0.48 MILES

    The region's high point (literally and figuratively) is Núria's strangely austere 1911 sanctuary. A gold-and-pastel-painted passageway leads to its upper…

  • Fort Liberia

    Fort Liberia

    17.2 MILES

    Villefranche’s mighty fort dominates the skyline above town. Built by Vauban in 1681, it was heavily refortified by Napoléon III between 1850 and 1856…

  • Monestir de Sant Joan les Fonts

    Monestir de Sant Joan les Fonts

    21.81 MILES

    Dating to the 12th century, this broad Romanesque riverside monastery is squirrelled away at the northern end of Sant Joan les Fonts, 6km northeast of…

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Nearby The Catalan Pyrenees attractions

1. Santuari de la Mare de Déu

0.48 MILES

The region's high point (literally and figuratively) is Núria's strangely austere 1911 sanctuary. A gold-and-pastel-painted passageway leads to its upper…

2. Castell de Llívia

10.3 MILES

Though little more than walls remain of Llívia's ruined hilltop castle, it's worth the hefty 15-minute climb for the fabulously beautiful wraparound views…

3. Museu Municipal

10.39 MILES

Proudly occupying what's alleged to be Europe's oldest pharmacy (dating to 1415, it operated until 1926), this multi-language, multimedia museum explores…

5. Museu Cerdà

12.1 MILES

Within a much-modernised 19th-century Carmelite monastery are two floors of exhibitions with flavours of Cerdanya's agrarian past. The permanent…

6. Església de Sant Domènec

12.15 MILES

This 13th-century Gothic church was wrecked multiple times over the course of its history, including a 15th-century earthquake and immense damage during…

7. Església de Santa Maria

12.27 MILES

Though only the tower of the 17th-century Església de Santa Maria still stands, this stocky Romanesque structure dominates bustling Plaça Santa Maria…

8. Estany de Puigcerdà

12.28 MILES

The lake at the north end of town was created during the 13th century for irrigation purposes. It's a pretty spot for a stroll: birds bob across its…