Canfranc is in, Aragon, Spain.
This rather small village would be a perfectly un-notable community in the Pyrenees mountains if it hadn't been chosen in the 1920s as the the site of a Spanish-French border station. Among other things, it served as a point where Nazi gold was delivered from Vichy-France to Franco-Spain. It was also the main transshipment point for war-critical tungsten from officially neutral Spain to Nazi controlled Europe. However, an accident in the 1970s left the line without cross-border traffic and while traffic from the Spanish side to Canfranc has resumed and there are some ideas on the French side of reopening traffic, the station - and all the infrastructure built to support it - seems weirdly out of place and way overbuilt.
- Castillo de los Arañones. A 19th century defensive fort.
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar. A local church dating to the 20th century. The architecture is humble but impressive in its own way.
Castillo de los Arañones. A 19th century defensive fort.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar. A local church dating to the 20th century. The architecture is humble but impressive in its own way.