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Zaragoza is a city and a municipality in Spain, capital of the homonymous province and the autonomous community of Aragón. Belonging to the Central Region - of which it is not capital, but neighboring Utebo -, it has a special regime as the capital of Aragon (Law 10/2017, of November 30, special regime of the municipality of Zaragoza as the capital of Aragon) .
With a population of 666,880 inhabitants (INE, 2018) it is the fifth most populous city in Spain, after Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Seville.
The city has a nominal GDP of USD 135,987 million and a nominal GDP per capita of USD 26,119, which represents a PPP GDP per capita of USD 26,120, being the 4th Spanish city in economic activity; and the 16th of Europe behind: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Brussels, Moscow, Munich, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona and Valencia
It is located on the banks of the rivers Ebro, Huerva and Gállego and the Imperial Canal of Aragon, in the center of a wide valley. Its privileged geographical situation makes it an important logistics and communications hub; It is located about 300 km from Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Bilbao and Toulouse. Part of its municipal term is occupied by the natural reserve directed by the Sotos and Galachos del Ebro.
Its current name comes from the ancient Roman place name, Caesaraugusta, which he received in honor of Emperor César Augusto in the 14th. C. The origin of the city dates back to Salduie, which was the name of the Iberian sedetana city located on the site of current Zaragoza since the second half of the third century BC. C. It is documented in Iberian currencies and with the name "Salduvia" in a text by Pliny the Elder. With the foundation of Caesar Augusta, the Iberian city-state became an immune colony of Roman citizens. Its Roman denomination was evolving through the Arabic Saraqusta.
The city holds the titles of Very Noble, Very Loyal, Very Heroic, Very Beneficial, Always Heroic and Immortal, granted mostly after its resistance against the Napoleonic army in the Sites of Zaragoza during the War of Independence. All these titles are reflected on your shield, by the initials of each of them. Celebrates its main festival in honor of the Virgen del Pilar on October 12. The patron of the city is San Valero (January 29). Between June 14 and September 14, 2008, the year of the bicentenary of the Zaragoza Sites and the centenary of the 1908 Spanish-French Exhibition, Zaragoza hosted the Expo Zaragoza 2008 international exhibition dedicated to water and sustainable development. In 2010, Zaragoza was the fifth Spanish city with the most tourism. In addition, the city of Zaragoza hosted the United Nations Secretariat for the Water Decade 2005-2015.

The Casco Antiguo or Casco Viejo de Zaragoza, capital of the Autonomous Community of Aragon (Spain), is a district formed by different neighborhoods, among which are those of San Pablo (popularly known as El Gancho), that of San Miguel, that of the Tenerías and that of La Magdalena (also known as El Gallo).

The minor basilica of Santa Engracia in the city of Zaragoza, better known as the basilica of Santa Engracia, is a Catholic temple in the city of Zaragoza (Spain).
Its origin is in a Christian chapel of the III-IV century where the remains of Santa Engracia and other martyrs from Zaragoza were worshiped. From this period two paleochristian sarcophagi carried out by Roman workshops of the first half of the fourth century are preserved in the crypt of the church: that of the Receptio animae (restored in 1998) and that of the Petrine Trilogy (restored in 1991).
This place of Christian worship remained as a church during the Visigothic period. In her Eugenio de Toledo studied under the teaching of San Braulio. During the Islamic domination, it was the center of a neighborhood of Mozarabic population.
In the second half of the fifteenth century, Juan II de Aragón wanted to promote a monastery in gratitude to Santa Engracia after his cure for a disease of cataracts, but the construction of the same was not undertaken until the reign of Fernando the Catholic. The Plateresque monastery was in a state of ruin and was completely demolished after the Zaragoza Sites, although the Renaissance cover of the church was saved from destruction, a work conceived and carried out until 1514 by Gil Morlanes the Elder, and finished off by his son Gil Morlanes the Younger.
Also in the Santa Engracia basilica church is the Santa Engracia Scout Group 649.

The Paseo de la Independencia, also known as Paseo Independencia, is one of the main communication routes in the city of Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain). It begins in the Plaza de España and ends in the Plaza de Paraíso, passing through the Plaza de Aragón. Its name refers to the War of Independence during which the city suffered several sites against the French invasion and was completely destroyed, the civilian population being deeply involved in the defense, which caused a great memory.

The Pablo Gargallo Museum is a museum dedicated monographically to the work of the Aragonese sculptor Pablo Gargallo (1881-1934) that is located at number 3 of the San Felipe de Zaragoza square (Aragon, Spain), in the Argillo palace, Francisco Sanz de Cortés's house.

The Goya Museum - Ibercaja Collection - Camón Aznar Museum is a museum of fine arts located in Espoz y Mina street, 23 in Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain).
The museum houses more than a thousand works. Among them, there are more than five hundred which, being the most significant, are exhibited in their permanent rooms. Most of his funds come from the legacy made by the illustrious professor, academic, critic and collector from Zaragoza, José Camón Aznar. In addition, as of 2015, new incorporations from Ibercaja and the Royal Aragonese Economic Society of Friends of the Country are exhibited.
The museum was inaugurated in 1979 by the widow of the Aragonese scholar, María Luisa Álvarez Pinillos and is located in the Renaissance Palace of the Pardo within the historic center of Zaragoza. It consists of several rooms distributed over three floors.
The Social Work of Ibercaja is responsible for managing the institution. When this financial entity was called “Caja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja”, it had signed an agreement with José Camón Aznar for the acquisition of this collection on July 2, 1976. Previously, on February 27, 1976, the entity Financial had acquired the building where the museum exhibits its works.
Since its inauguration in 1979, it was called the Camón Aznar Museum but since its reopening on February 26, 2015, it is called the Goya Museum-Ibercaja Collection-Camón Aznar Museum. The museum has put the name of Sala Camón Aznar to the spaces for temporary exhibitions of the museum, as well as a tribute on the third floor. Even so, there has been some controversy with the change of name of the museum.

The Cesaraugusta Theater Museum is a space that shows the ruins of the ancient Roman theater in Zaragoza (Spain) as well as various archaeological remains and models of that period. It is located on Calle San Jorge, nº 12. A part of its facilities occupies lots corresponding to important houses of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque times; The monumental and exhibition complex is, on the other hand, nestled in the grounds of the former Jewish quarter of Zaragoza: for these reasons, the Museum also takes advantage of the integration, in a joint vision, of interesting remains and samples of Zaragoza's history through the times mentioned above.

The Roman theater of Caesaraugusta dates from the 1st century AD. C. and with its 7,000 square meters and 6,000 spectators, it is considered one of the largest in Roman Hispania. Its ruins were discovered in 1972 thanks to a neighbor who warned the local newspaper of the existence of archeological remains among the works of a construction.
After several years of restoration and 12 million euros of investment, the opening of the museum took place in 2003. Currently, through some walkways visitors can see the remains of the stands and the stage that have been protected by a large translucent polycarbonate cover. Along with the archaeological remains, a building has been rehabilitated, to house the Interpretation Center in which the visitor is introduced to the history of the theater and the dramatic genres, social and political life of the time.

The house of the Morlanes in the square of San Carlos de Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain) is a 16th-century building whose author and its first owner are unknown. Both M. de la Sala Valdés and J. Camón Aznar have pointed out the possibility that he belonged to the Morlanes, a family of distinguished jurists and artists who owned several houses in this area, although this data has not yet been documented. It could be built by one of them, Gil Morlanes the Elder-
The only confirmed fact is that the plaster decoration of its main façade was completed in 1555. This facade, made of brick on a ashlar plinth, is the only thing left of the original construction, since the interior of the building has been totally renovated.
The facade is divided into three floors. The ground floor has an open entrance in a semicircular arch, which preserves the stone jambs, and four spaced and trellised openings. The noble floor has bays adintelados and flanked by stipe that support semicircular and triangular pediments. Finally, the upper floor presents a classic gallery of folded half-point arches, with oculos on the sills and sills, which is topped by a flying eave.
The decoration is centered around the openings of the noble floor, where various vegetal and figurative motifs are observed (grutescos, garlands, angels, etc.), which according to some authors, such as Santiago Sebastián, would enclose a thoughtful humanistic iconographic program , which would qualify the palace as royal abode.

La Casa del Canal or de los Tarín, located in the street of Santa Cruz numbers 17 and 19 of Zaragoza (Spain) is a building that was originally a 16th-century Renaissance palace and that served as housing for the Justicias de Aragón, Juan and Esteban Gil Tarín, and of which only the wooden eave that tops the main facade is preserved.

The Montemuzo Palace in Zaragoza (Spain) is a complex formed by the old Montemuzo Palace and the so-called Artiach house, which today houses the headquarters of the Municipal Archive. The palace is a construction from the end of the 16th century, currently linked by a passage on its ground floor to the Artiach house, a residential building from the beginning of the 20th century in an eclectic style with modernist decorative elements.

The Fuenclara Palace in Zaragoza (Spain) was built in the second half of the 16th century on behalf of Don Antonio Agustín, father of the archbishop of Tarragona and eminent canonist, transformed in the 17th century by his new tenants, the Counts of Fuenclara.
It is an exempt building that originally consisted of three floors, although it currently has one more floor.
In any case, and despite the profound modifications made in the interior space, it continues to articulate around a central courtyard with a monumental staircase to access the rest of the floors. The patio has four Tuscan columns on base and plinth, which support shoes for the wooden floor that closes the bays. The lower part of the patio is decorated with a Muel ceramic trench.
The main facade, which faces Fuenclara Street, has also undergone some transformations. The ground floor today presents commercial premises that hide the primitive access in a semicircular arch, the noble floor is currently divided in two and opened by gutted openings and the last one shows a series of gilded windows that replaces the original Aragonese gallery of semicircular arches. It is made entirely of brick and ends with a powerful eave.

The Argensola Palace, also called Casa Mercadal, is a stately building located near the cathedral of San Salvador de Zaragoza (Spain), built in the 16th century as a residence of the Albión family. In the mid-nineteenth century, it passed to the Mercadal family, with roots in the old historical community of Daroca, in the southwest of the province of Zaragoza, undergoing major subsequent reforms.
The architect and urban planner Fernando García Mercadal was born on April 5, 1896. A plaque discovered by the City of Zaragoza on its facade recalls the event. There is the circumstance that the integral rehabilitation of the house-palace directed by the architect Fernando Aguerri Martínez deserved in 1990 the prestigious "Fernando García Mercadal" Architecture Prize, awarded annually by the Association of Architects of Aragon.
The house-palace consists of basement and three floors, plus double attic. On the ground floor, the access opens, in a semicircular arch, which leads to a small and beautiful courtyard articulated by four Ionic columns, from which the staircase that leads to a walker that communicates with the different spaces of the noble floor and with the service yard. On this main floor there is a large living room, originally intended for dances and social gatherings offered by their owners, covered with a magnificent decorated wooden roof.
The original exterior structure, which had been quite masked by subsequent reforms, has been carefully recovered in restoration and rehabilitation works. It is made in brick face to face. The lower floor has an entrance in a semicircular arch and windowed windows, the second a series of balconies and the third the usual gallery of semicircular arches bent under an eave, which evokes Renaissance shapes through a metal profiles.

Huarte Palace, also known as Provincial Historical Archive, located on Dormer Street number 6-8, in Zaragoza (Spain) is a house-palace from the early 16th century, built for a well-off family from Zaragoza. It is also known as Casa Frías, for being Don Mariano Frías-Salazar, Marquis de Huarte, its owner at the beginning of the 20th century.

Alfonso I street in Zaragoza is a main street of the historical center of the city. Communicate El Coso with the Plaza del Pilar. The street stands out for its beautiful buildings and the panoramic view of the Basilica del Pilar, from which its central dome is observed.

The Museum of the Lanterns and Crystal Rosary is located inside the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Plaza de San Pedro Nolasco in Zaragoza. It shows the handicraft pieces that make up the Crystal Rosary.
The Crystal Rosary is celebrated every October 13 in the Aragonese capital and consists of a night procession of lanterns and glass floats that correspond to each of the parts that are prayed in the prayer of the rosary.

The church of San Gil is a religious temple under the invocation of San Gil Abad. Located on the street of Jaime I, No. 15 of Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain) is a Catholic parish temple built in the fourteenth century in the Mudejar style with subsequent baroque reforms carried out in the eighteenth century.
It is one of the Monuments of the Historical Patrimony of Spain, declared B.I.C. in 1967. But it is one of the Mudejar towers of Zaragoza that is not a World Heritage Site declared by Unesco.

The Roman theater of Caesaraugusta is a theater from the Roman era built in the first half of the 1st century AD. C. (governments of Tiberio and Claudio) in Caesar Augusta, now Zaragoza, Spain. It had capacity for about six thousand spectators and followed the model of the Marcelo theater in Rome. It was in use until the third century when its materials were reused to build walls and other buildings. In 1973, archaeological surveys were brought to light and can now be visited within the framework of the Cesaraugusta Theater Museum. On October 8, 2001, it was declared of Cultural Interest in the category of monument.