Lanuza is a populated place belonging to the Spanish municipality of
Sallent de Gállego
Sallent de Gállego (in Aragonese: ''Sallent de Galligo'' or ''Sallén de Galligo'') is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.
The town is located in the central Pyrenees besides the reservoir of Lanuza on the foot o ...
, in the
province of Huesca
Huesca ( an, Uesca, ca, Osca), officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca.
Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French Departments of Haute-G ...
,
Aragon.
It is a
Pyrenean village lying on the left bank of the
Gállego river. The inhabitants were forced to leave in 1978 in order to create a water reservoir that was projected to flood the town.
Consequently, Lanuza was stripped of its municipality status and the land was incorporated as part of Sallent de Gállego.
The projections that the town would be destroyed entirely, however, proved inaccurate, as only some of the buildings ended up underwater.
Former residents that had been forced to leave campaigned to return to and rebuild Lanuza in the 1990s, and the town has since been repopulated. The town is visited by tourists year-round, particularly during the summer.
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Former municipalities in Spain
Populated places in the Province of Huesca