Camping in Zaragoza
Zaragoza. His site goes back to an ancient way through the Pyrenees and the dried green highlands of peninsular interior, along the Ebro Four centuries of Muslim occupation Christians did not erase the vestiges of Roman occupation. Epics protagonist (as in the Napoleonic wars), the capital of Aragon worth a leisurely visit.
can begin by Coso street, on the right bank of the Ebro and around the Old City, where some bridges remain vestiges of Roman enclosure. From the south, two parallel arteries leading to the old quarter, perched between the Ebro and the squares of the Pillar and La Seo. This well-known Cathedral of S. Salvador (ss. xii-xvi) - is a must, as the most representative monument of the city: the Basilica del Pilar ("the second cathedral" of Zaragoza), which was not completed until s. xix. Crossing the Ebro by the stone bridge provides a beautiful view of the city. Upstream, the Puente de Santiago leads the tower of the Zuda (s. xiv), Moorish style, the church of S. Juan de los Panet (s. xviii), with its leaning tower and the remains of Roman walls. To the west, the Gothic church of S. Paul and leaving the city, the palace of the Aljafería, testimony of Mudejar art in Aragon in the s. xi.
Other points of interest: Calatayud, along the Jalón, inescapable retains many monuments of visit as the collegiate church of Santa Maria Maggiore (s. xvi), the church of S. Andrew and the Holy Sepulchre (s. xii, restored in the seventeenth). Further west, Ateca, Alhama de Aragón, Cetina and Ariza, with interesting traces of the Mudejar.
3 km from Calatayud, vestiges of the city of Bílbilis Celtiberian. A 25 km, in Nuévalos, the Monasterio de Piedra, a magnificent manifestation of nature. To the south, along the road to Teruel, Daroca, of Iberian origin, of interest, their fortified doors (Upper and Lower) in the wall open, collegiate church of St. Mary (ss. xiii-xvi) and parish museum.
Proposed routes. From north to south and from east to west, Aragon preserved in the valleys and villages monumental enough tourist attractions whose description would claim an encyclopedia. Are summarized below, some routes of unquestionable interest.
- Camino de Santiago. The French Way is called, in its passage through Aragon, indelible mark: Somport Canfranc and Villanueva, Jaca, Santa Cruz de la Serós, S. Juan de la Peña ... - Caminos del Arte. Prehistoric: Mazaleón Albarracin, Valdeargorfa, Santolea, Castiliscar, Borja, Belchite, Calaceite, Caspe, Fabara ... Roman Calatayud, Huesca, Tarazona ... Obarra monasteries, Alaón, Villanueva, Sahún ... Mudéjar: Espierre, S. Gavin Bartholomew, S. Pedro de Lárrede, Oliver, STUE, Susín ... Gothic: Veruela, Stone, Wheel, cathedrals of Huesca, Barbastro ...; castles Valderrobres, Alcaniz, Monsoon ... - Roads Mudéjar: Ateca, Morata de Jiloca, Calatayud, Ricla, Paniza, Daroca, Tarazona, Tauste ... In Teruel (exponent): Olalla, Montalban, S. Jiloca Martin, Albalate, Alcorisa ...
- Roads Nature: Anso Valleys, Fago, Echo, Aragüés-Jasa. Locations: Jaca, Biescas, Torla, Pineca, Benasque, Cerler, Vera Moncayo, Sos del Rey Catolico ... Snow: Astún, Candanchú, Jaca, Formigal, Panticosa, Sierra de Gúdar ...
