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Video. Pyrénées: but Who Sliced the Miller and Stole the Famous Cross From the Peak of Aneo?

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The cross of Anato was installed in 1951 on the roof of the Pyrenees by the Alpine Catalan Club. Recently, it had taken a helicopter to resettle it in the summer of 2025 The cross of Anato,

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The cross of Anato was installed in 1951 on the roof of the Pyrenees by the Alpine Catalan Club. Recently, it had taken a helicopter to resettle it in the summer of 2025 The cross of Anato,

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The Cruz del Aneto, the historic emblem located at 3,404 meters of altitude at the highest summit of the Pyrenees, has disappeared from its location, according to sources from the Civil Guard to La Vanguardia. The Commandance of the Benemerita de Huesca, through its Special Mountain Intervention Rescue Group (GREIM), has initiated an investigation to clarify the facts after receiving notification from the City of Benasque last Thursday afternoon…

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The 'roof' that symbolically crowns the Aragonese Pyrenees is in search and capture. It was denounced by a group of mountaineers who made a summit and, as they ascended, found that there was no trace of the cross of the Aneto. The Civil Guard is chasing its trail, but right now the symbol of the Pico Aneto (3,404 meters of altitude) is missing. It had been repositioned after its restoration last August 2025 and has been at the highest summit in …

·Spain
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The City of Benasque (Huesca) has reported this Friday through its social networks the disappearance of the Cruz del Aneto, an emblematic symbol that has crowned the top of the Aneto (3,404 meters), for more than 75 years. Read more]]>

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The cross of Aneto, located at the top of the highest peak of the Pyrenees, may have disappeared once again. Several mountain guides reported it to the town hall of Benasque (Spain), which filed a complaint with the Group for Relief and Intervention in the Mountains (GREIM) of the Civil Guard.

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The cross of the top of the Aneto would have been severed at its base with the help of a grinding machine... Symbol of the "roof of the Pyrenees", the cross installed at more than 3,400 meters above sea level.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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