The highest resort in the Spanish Pyrenees, above the mountaineering town of Benasque, in a valley ringed by three thousand metre peaks including Aneto, the highest in the range.

Benasque is where you want to sleep. It is a stone town with an old quarter and a proper Saturday life, and hotels and apartments there sit a short drive below the lifts. The base station itself has far less to offer.

The skiing is sunny, quiet and mostly intermediate, with trees lower down and open terrain above, which suits families and improvers well. Strong skiers should look at the ski touring, which is what this valley is really known for. The Aragonese cooking is worth the trip on its own and worth reserving for rather than assuming. A snowshoe walk into the Posets Maladeta park fills a spare day.