Pyrenees Guide

Hotel Goya, Zaragoza City, Aragon - The 4 star Hotel Goya enjoys a superb location right in the nerve-centre of the city, within easy reach of the best shopping, leisure and cultural facilities. The hotel is a mere five minute walk from the famous Plaza del Pilar making it ideal for tourist groups. The Hotel Goya has 148 rooms: ...

Aljaferia Castle, Zaragoza City - The most important monument of the Moslem time is, undoubtedly, the palace of La Aljaferia, the headquarters of the Government of Aragon today. This palace was built in a period of urbanistic and cultural splendour of the city, at the same time as the prestige of philosophers and doctors, Arab and ...

Aparthotel Habitat Center Los Girasoles, Zaragoza, Aragon - Located in the center of Zaragoza, Hotel Habitat Center Los Girasoles in Zaragoza, offers a different kind of accommodation and meet the needs of the most demanding costumers. A warm atmosphere that will make you feel at home. The apartments have been designed with the aim of providing a ...

Arch of the Dean, Zaragoza City - This is one of the most emblematic corners of our city. It originates in the 13th century, when a construction was planned, which would connect the cathedral to the new house of the dean, head of the chapter after the prelate. The current arch, well restored, responds to the reform carried out in ...

Basilica del Pilar, Zaragoza City - Rising from the banks of the river Ebro as it passes through Zaragoza is the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pilar, a jewel of Aragonese Baroque art. The Cathedral, visited dialy by thousands of the faithful and pilgrims, houses the image of our lady of the Pilar. According to tradition, the Virgin ...

Caesar Augustus statue, Zaragoza City - This statue was given by Mussolini's Italian government to Zaragoza in 1940 and is a bronze copy, forged in Naples of the original Augustus Prima Porta which is in the Vatican. It shows the emperor dressed as a general and haranguing his troops, and on his breastplate you can see symbols of some of ...

Camon Aznar Museum, Zaragoza City - Lovers of fine arts must visit the Camon Aznar Museum. It occupies the Renaissance palace of Pardos and includes an extensive artistic sample, the majority of which comes from the legacy of the illustrious academician from Zaragoza, Jose Camon Aznar. Address: c/ Espoz y Mina 23 (Tues-Fri ...

Cartuja de Aula Dei, Zaragoza City - On the walls of the church of the Carthusian monastery of the Aula Dei (12km north of Zaragoza City), Goya painted a cycle of scenes in oils of the Life of the Virgin Mary. It is the most extensive of his works, although of the eleven passages, only seven remain and some of those with partial ...

Casa Molins, Zaragoza City - This work by Fernando de Yarzo is one of the best examples of modernist aesthetics in our city and of the integration of the new style within the historical quarter. The two-street facade is solved with the typical cant, decorated with wavy, rhythmic shapes inspired by Nature. It has a ground ...

Casa Retuerta, Zaragoza City - The Casa Retuerta was built in 1904 in one of the best planned sectors within the urban expansion area of the city. The situation of the house, in the angle of two important streets allowed the architect Juan Francisco Gomez Pulido to concentrate his attentiont in the corner, which was solved ...

Casino Mercantil, Zaragoza City - The Casino Mercantil was built in the plot of land, which the palace of Don Juan de Coloma, secretary of Fernando el Catolico, the Catholic King, previously occupied. The facade was made in 1912 by Francisco Albiñana, and is one of the most impressive modernism buildings in Zaragoza. It is ...

Church of San Pablo, Zaragoza City - The church of San Pablo was raised to replace the old Romanesque hermitage of San Blas, which had become too small due to the growth of the district. The current temple is the result of a series of additions, which gradually increased the original 14th century nucleus, the most valuable testimony ...

Church of the Magdalena, Zaragoza City - It was erected at the start of the 14th century to replace a previous Romanesque temple. Its typology corresponds to the model of a single-nave church, with chapels between the buttresses and polygonal sanctuary. The temple changes its orientation during the 18th century reform, the new access door ...

Destinations in Aragon - The Aragones Pyrenees The Aragonese Pyrenees form the central region of Spanish Pyrenees in Huesca, in the northern Aragon province. Being so close to the mountains, it is ideal for Pyrenees summer Trekking and winter Skiing. The natural area formed by the Pyrenees is one of the most ...

Don Pedro de Luna Palace, Zaragoza City - Zaragoza blossomed in the 16th century. This striking palace is an example of the power of the nobility. It is also called Condes de Morata Palace and was built on the Roman wall. The front entrance, with its rounded arch and beautiful decorations is of especial interest, flanked by two figures of ...

Former Capitania General, Zaragoza City - Built by order of the Army Engineers in 1893 in Neo-classic style, the former Capitania General has an irregular ground plan due to the elliptic shape of the old Glorieta de Pignatelli present-day Plaza de Aragon. Inside, the great staircase presided over by the bronze statue of General Palafox ...

Former Faculty of Medicine & Sciences, Zaragoza City - This is one of the most successful works by the architect Ricardo Magdalena; a building which responds to the historical tendency of the time, where the models of the Aragonese Renaissance Palaces are reintroduced. Following this tradition, it is made of brick, with application of polychrome tiles ...

Fortea Tower, Zaragoza City - Built to a square plan, the lower part is of stone and the rest is of brich. It is the most important example in the city of mudejar civil architecture of the 15th Century. Acquired by the Town Council, it has been restored and is presently occupied by the Department responsible for the Areas of ...

Forum of Caesaraugusta Museum, Zaragoza City - This archaeological area of the Forum of Caesaraugusta Museum offers us a vision of the daily life in the city during the period of its foundation by the Romans (between 19 and 14 B.C). These archaeological remains pertain to a market of the period of Emperor Augustus and the town forum, built in ...

Hotel AC Los Enlaces, Zaragoza City - A modern and functional 4 star Hotel with 4 convention halls, making it an ideal venue for company meetings. Strategically located, with easy access to Madrid and Barcelona via the N-II, the hotel is only 5 minutes from the Train Station and very near to the Trade Fair grounds and airport. The ...

Hotel Boston, Zaragoza City - This 4 star Hotel is in a privileged location of Zaragoza center. It has easy access from wide avenues. It is only 5 minutes from Paseo Independencia, financial and commercial center of the city. The Hotel Boston was developed as one of the first intelligent hotels in Spain, combining modern ...

Hotel Catalonia Zaragoza Plaza, Zaragoza City - The 4 star Hotel Catalonia Zaragoza Plaza is located just 50 metres from Zaragoza Plaza square and Basilica of Pilar, in the heart of Zaragoza’s historic centre. The hotel building is from the Modernist period and was built at the turn of the 20th century. Designed by the architect Julio ...

Hotel El Principe, Zaragoza City, Aragon - The Best Western Hotel El Principe is a modern hotel located in the historical and financial center of Zaragoza. Located within walking distance from Pilar's Basilica, Camón Aznar Museum, Central Theater, Seo's Cathedral, art gallery 'La Lonja' and the Tapas area . There is a nice ...

Hotel Hesperia Zaragoza, Zaragoza City - The 3 star Hotel Hesperia Zaragoza is strategically located in the heart of the historic centre, five minutes from the Basilica del Pilar. Well connected to all the city´s principals access points, and just 10 minutes from the Ave Statation. 86 rooms, car park, cafe-bar and Al Punto ...

Hotel Husa Via Romana, Zaragoza City - The 3 star Hotel Husa Via Romana was opened in 1988. With very easy access to the main communication routes, Hotel is located right in Zaragoza's commercial, cultural and leisure centre. Next to the "Basilica del Pilar", Seo Cathedral (San Salvador), "Lonja Palace" and the City ...

Hotel Inca, Zaragoza City - The Inca is comfortable 3 star hotel located in the heart of Zaragoza, just 50 metres from the Basílica del Pilar, and in the centre of the historic and shopping area of the city. Hotel Inca facilities and services include a la carte Restaurant, Bar, 24 hour Front Desk, Elevator, Security ...

Hotel Melia Zaragoza, Zaragoza City - The 5 star Hotel Melia Zaragoza is centrally-located, very close to the commercial area and the monuments of Zaragoza, 900 m from the Basilica of the Virgin of the Pillar and La Seo, the Cathedral of the Savior, 1.8 km from the Auditorium and Convention Center, 5 minutes from the train station and ...

Hotel NH Ciudad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza City - This newly built Hotel NH Ciudad de Zaragoza is located a few meters from the 'Basilica del Pilar', Seo Cathedral (San Salvador) and the Roman Walls. This hotel is designed for business and, also due to its location, for tourists aswell. Easy access from the A2 motorway, airport and Fair of ...

Hotel NH Orus, Zaragoza City, Aragon - The 3 star NH Orus is a refurbished three-floor hotel with a modernist façade. Located beside the old “El Portillo” train station and the Parque Roma, in a central commercial and residential area. All rooms are well equipped with direct-dial phones, minibars, satellite television ...

Hotel Oriente, Zaragoza City, Aragon - Built in 1916 and carefully restored in 2000, the 3 star Hotel Oriente is located in the commercial and business centre of the city, beside Plaza Espana. The Basilica del Pilar and the Seo Cathedral are nearby the hotel, which is ideal for those who wish to explore the historic sights ...

Hotel Palafox, Zaragoza City, Aragon - Prestige, tradition and design are the keys to the success of this five star hotel. Located in the social and business centre of the city, the Hotel Palafox enjoys modern design and the most up-to-date facilities. The Hotel Palafox combines traditional hospitality with the latest technology and an ...

Hotel Reino de Aragon, Zaragoza City - The 4 star Hotel Reino de Aragon has an excellent location in the central Calle Coso, next to Plaza de España. Convenient for the trade fair site and airport, it is also very close to the Basilica del Pilar, the Paseo Independencia and right opposite the Teatro Principal. Ideally located for ...

Hotel Silken Zentro, Zaragoza City - This modern, avant-garde hotel in the heart of the city centre with distinctive architecture and interior design, offers great comfort during your stay in Zaragoza. You have an ideal city location, close to many attractions and not far from the River Ebro.Take the opportunity to visit the city ...

Hotel Tryp Zaragoza, Zaragoza City - Conveniently situated, the hotel is just a short drive from the airport and opposite Las Delicias train station, bus station and the entrance to where Expo 2008 will be held. The hotel comprises modern, dynamic facilities and services together with cutting-edge technology. There are onsite halls ...

Hotel Zenit Don Yo, Zaragoza City - Set on plaza de Aragon in the historic and commercial centre of Zaragoza, the Don Yo is within a kilometre of Plaza del Pilar and roman and moorish sites. This 10-floor hotel features 147 guestrooms, all of which are decorated in warm earth tones with dark wood furniture and patterned fabrics, and ...

Hotels in Aragon - Sparsely populated, the old kingdom of Aragon is flanked by several worlds: France, Catalonia, Navarra and the northeastern reaches of Spain's Castilian heartland. If you love mountains, castles and stone villages, this place is for you. You do need a vehicle to make the best of it, though, as ...

Hotels in Aragon - The Aragonese Pyrenees form the central region of Spanish Pyrenees in Huesca, in the northern Aragon province. Being so close to the mountains, it is ideal for Pyrenees summer Trekking and winter Skiing. Aragon is an ancient land composed of three provinces: Zaragoza (Saragossa); remote ...

Imperial Channel of Aragon, Zaragoza City - At the end of the 18th Century, the Spanish king Charles III gave Ramon Pignatelli the enormous task of creating a great navegable waterway which would link Cantabria and the Mediterranean. Only 150km were built, from Bocal, near Tudela, Navarra to El Burgo de Ebro, near Zaragoza. It currently ...

La Lonja, Zaragoza City - Between the Pilar and La Seo, alongside the Ebro, the beautiful Lonja rises up; undoubtedly the most important exponent of civil architecture of Zaragoza. Used for trading transactions –especially those propitiated by the river navigation. The building was started in 1541 and was concluded, ...

La Seo Cathedral, Zaragoza City - La Seo del Salvador reflects the history and the art of Aragon. First of all, it was the High Mosque of Sarakosta (Zaragoza in Moslem ages). The construction of the Romanesque Cathedral was begun during the second half of the 12th century. The rebuilding of the Cathedral in Gothic style took place ...

La Zuda Tower, Zaragoza City - The seat of the Moslem governors, it was built on one of the turrets of the Roman wall. After the reconquest it became the residential palace of the kings of Aragon, from Alfonso I el Batallador (The Warrior) to Jaime I. Its present aspect dates and the characteristics of palatial architecture of ...

Morlanes House, Zaragoza City - This house belonged to the Morlans family which in addition to being of noble lineage and enjoying considerable wealth, were the most important sculptors of the 16th century. Of the original building only the brick façade remains. The balconies are flanked by tapering columns (estiptes) and ...

NH Gran Hotel, Zaragoza City - The NH Gran Hotel, inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1929, preserves the flavour of that era and offers you its sumptuous and luxurious installations. Located in the heart of the city in the shopping and cultural district, next to the Paseo de la Independencia and close to the Basilica del Pilar ...

Pablo Gargallo Museum, Zaragoza City - The beautiful 17th-century late Renaissance Argillo Palace in the heart of the old town houses this museum of Pablo Gargallo's sculpture. The famous Aragonese artist was one of the most important figures in the early 20th-century European avant-garde movement and he was heavily influenced by Rodin ...

Pablo Serrano Museum, Zaragoza City - The Pablo Serrano Museum is dedicated to the work of the famous Aragonese sculptor (1908-1985). The former workshops of the provincial orphanage have been restored and remodelled to house the collection belonging to the Pablo Serrano Foundation; a collection which covers an area of over 1000m2. ...

Patio de la Infanta, Zaragoza City - The Patio de la Infanta is the best Aragonese Renaissance patio and was part of a sixteenth-century palace which collapsed after three fires. In 1903 the patio was sold to a French antiquarian who took it to his shop in Paris. In 1957, local Savings Bank Ibercaja bought it and stored it until 1980, ...

Plaza de los Sitios, Zaragoza City - The Spanish-French Exhibition was held in Zaragoza in 1908, in memory of the Peninsula War and to unite both countries. For this event with more than 5,000 exhibitors, a site was prepared between Avenida Independencia and Huerva River. This is now Plaza de los Sitios, which contains striking ...

Principal Theatre, Zaragoza City - Since its inauguration in 1798, this theatre has been subjected to numerous reformations. Its present interior is the work of Ricardo Magdalena (1896) who also designed the rear façade in an eclectic neo-classical style. The front of the building was remodelled by the brothers Borobio in ...

Roman Port Museum, Zaragoza City - This museum, together with the Roman Public Baths Museum, the Roman Theatre and the Foro Museums, is one of the three sites in Zaragoza where the visitor can view the archaeological remains of the ancient Roman colony of Caesar Augusta. It is possible to actually see the remains of the harbour that ...

Roman Public Baths Museum, Zaragoza City - The Roman Public Baths Museum is, together with the Roman theatre, the river port and the Foro museums, one of the four museums in Zaragoza where you can visit the archeological remains of the ancient Roman colony of Caesaraugusta. The exhibition includes the remains of the latrine-room and the ...

Roman Theatre Museum, Zaragoza City - The Roman Theatre was discovered by chance in 1972 when the construction of a new building in Veronica street began. The theatre, built in the 1st century, within the town fabric, stood out from the rest of the buildings as a point of reference in an essentially flat landscape. As time passed, the ...

Roman Walls, Zaragoza City - Caesaraugusta was surrounded by a wall with numerous towers, perhaps as many as 120. The walls were extremely thick, up to 7 metres in places, whit alabaster and limestone block exteriors and an extraordinarily hard mortar interior (opus caementicium). Its towers were semicircular or ...

San Carlos Borromeo, Zaragoza City - The School and Church of the Inmaculada, belonging to he Company of jesus were raised on the plot of land previously occupied by the Higher Synagogue of the Jewry of Zaragoza. In the 18th century the whole interior ornamentation of the church is renewed – designed by brother Lacarre-, making ...

San Gil Church, Zaragoza City - Archetype of 14th Century Aragonese mudejar, reorientated and redecorated during the baroque period. The tower, on a square base and with a rectangular body is a singular expression of the art of brickwork as developed by the mudejar, replete with rhombi and intertwined. Address: D. Jaime I, ...

Santa Engracia Church, Zaragoza City - The extraordinarily beautiful facade, carved in 1512 by Gil Morlanes the elder, and finished by his son is the only part of the previous enormous monastery which remains; during the Peninsula War the rest of it was destroyed. The facade is Plateresque in style with figures such as the Catholic ...

Santa Isabel de Portugal, Zaragoza City - In 1678 the Council of the Kingdom of Aragon decides to erect a temple in honour of Santa Isabel de Portugal. After reaching and agreement with the Teatine fathers (of Cayetanos, thus its other name), in 1681 the work begins on the plot of land, which the latter have reserved for their convent. ...

Stone Bridge, Zaragoza City - The oldest bridge over the Ebro. 15th Century gothic style, it has been restored on numerous occasions after flooding of the Ebro. Of note are the bronze lions by Francisco Rallo. Address: Paseo Echegaray y ...

The Mercado Central (Central Market), Zaragoza City - The Central Market is erected in the same place that the city market has occupied since the 13th century. The building, inaugurated in 1903, was not designed as an isolated building, but it formed part of a town planning action aimed at transforming the surroundings of the square, this remodelling, ...