Acín

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Acín is a now uninhabited village in northern Spain, in the municipality of Jaca (Huesca province, Aragon). It sits in the Garcipollera valley near the Ijuez river. In the 1960s it was expropriated to help build the Yesa Reservoir, and pine trees were planted to slow sediment from rains. Today the village is a ruin, mostly overgrown, with the remains of the Romanesque church of San Juan Bautista as its main feature. The Garcipollera valley gets its name from Latin vallis Cepollaria, meaning onion valley. There is a small communal recreational area by the river. Acín was mentioned as Açin de la Rosa in 1374 and became part of Jaca in 1961. The church of San Juan Bautista was the town’s parish church, once owned by the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña until the 16th century, then the Diocese of Jaca. It is a simple building with a rectangular nave and semicircular apse; a 17th‑century addition added a new nave, and a square bell tower remains, with the original 13th‑century apse still visible.