Must-see attractions in Aragón

  • Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar

    Zaragoza

    This great baroque cavern of Catholicism stands on the site where, the faithful believe, the Virgin Mary appeared to Santiago (St James the Apostle) atop…

  • Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña

    Aragón

    The road from Santa Cruz winds 7km up to the 10th-century Monasterio Viejo, tucked protectively under an overhanging lip of rock. A fire in 1675 led the…

  • Aljafería

    Zaragoza

    The Aljafería is Spain's finest Islamic-era edifice outside Andalucía. Built as a fortified palace for Zaragoza's Islamic rulers in the 11th century, it…

  • The bell tower and entrance of the church San Pedro in center historic of Huesca, Spain.

    Iglesia de San Pedro El Viejo

    Aragón

    San Pedro is one of the oldest and most important Romanesque churches in Spain, dating from the early 12th century. Its open cloister is adorned with 38…

  • Fundación Amantes

    Aragón

    Teruel's most popular attraction pulls out the stops on the city's famous legend of the tragic 13th-century lovers (amantes) Isabel and Juan Diego. The…

  • Museo del Teatro de Caesaraugusta

    Zaragoza

    The finest in Zaragoza's quartet of Roman museums was discovered during excavation of a building site in 1972. Great efforts, including an entertaining 15…

  • Museo Goya

    Zaragoza

    Apart from Madrid’s Museo del Prado, this exceedingly well-laid-out museum contains arguably the best exposé of the work of one of Spain’s greatest…

  • Catedral de Santa María

    Aragón

    This Gothic cathedral is one of Aragón's great surprises. The richly carved main portal dates from 1300, and the attached Museo Diocesano contains the…

  • Torre de El Salvador

    Aragón

    The most impressive of Teruel's Mudéjar towers, 40m-tall El Salvador is an early-14th-century extravaganza of brick and ceramics built on the model of an…

  • Spain, Zaragoza, La Seo, Mixture Of Architectural Styles. (Photo by Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)

    La Seo

    Zaragoza

    Dominating the eastern end of Plaza del Pilar, La Seo is Zaragoza's finest work of Christian architecture, built between the 12th and 17th centuries and…

  • Catedral de Santa María de Mediavilla

    Aragón

    The exterior of Teruel's cathedral is a rich example of the Mudéjar imagination at work with its kaleidoscopic brickwork and colourful ceramic tiles,…

  • Catedral del Salvador

    Albarracín

    After two decades of painstaking restoration, Albarracín's 16th-century cathedral has been returned to its splendour of the 18th century, by which time…

  • Catedral Santa María de la Huerta

    Aragón

    Tarazona's magnificent, multi-styled cathedral dates back to the 13th century. Its French-Gothic origins are evident in the vaulting and arches of the…

  • Museo Diocesano

    Aragón

    The star turn of the excellent Diocesan Museum (accessed from inside the Catedral de San Pedro) is a collection of Romanesque and Gothic art rescued from…

  • Muralla

    Albarracín

    Albarracín's highest point, the Torre del Andador (Andador Tower) was built in the 10th century as a defensive outpost for the Muslim town huddled around…

  • Plaza Mayor

    Aínsa

    Old Aínsa's broad, cobbled main plaza, lined by handsome stone arcades and houses, is one of Spain's loveliest. It was created as a market place and…

  • Estación Internacional de Canfranc

    Aragón

    The magnificent, 250m-long, Modernista structure of Canfranc station stands as a monument to a trans-Pyrenean railway that has lain idle for half a…

  • Pueblo Viejo de Belchite

    Aragón

    The shattered buildings of Belchite village, 45km southeast of Zaragoza, stand today as a haunting reminder of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. The…

  • Castillo de Loarre

    Aragón

    This large, multi-towered, 11th-century fortress, raised in Christian/Muslim frontier territory by Sancho III of Navarra and then expanded by Sancho…

  • Museo del Grabado de Goya

    Aragón

    This museum contains an important collection of Goya’s engravings, and acts as the ticket office for the Casa Natal de Goya, 100m along the street. There…

  • Monasterio de Veruela

    Aragón

    The beautiful 12th-century Cistercian monastery of Veruela stands in a bucolic corner of the countryside 14km south of Tarazona, with the Sierra del…

  • Museo de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza

    Exceptional Roman mosaics and 19 paintings by Goya are the highlights of the city museum, devoted to archaeology and fine arts. There's plenty more 18th…

  • Casa Palacio de Sada

    Aragón

    Fernando II of Aragón was born in this building in 1452. It's an impressive mansion – more so now than back then, following a major expansion around 1600…

  • Casa Natal de Goya

    Aragón

    Goya's humble birthplace was owned by his family until the early 20th century. The great man himself spent just his first month here, his mother having…

  • Castle

    Albarracín

    Albarracín's crag-top castle was founded in the 9th century. Apart from its perimeter wall and towers, everything you see, including the remains of the…

  • Museo de Huesca

    Aragón

    The city museum, partly housed in a 12th-century Aragonese royal palace, contains well-displayed archaeology and early modern art collections, including…

  • Museo del Foro de Caesaraugusta

    Zaragoza

    The rhomboid building on Plaza de la Seo is the entrance to the excavated remains of the substructures of Roman Caesaraugusta's forum, below ground level…

  • Iglesia de San Pedro

    Aragón

    This imposing, thick-walled church was founded in the 9th century as part of a monastery that formed the hub of the nascent County of Aragón (a small…

  • Iglesia de San Pedro

    Aragón

    Adjoining the Los Amantes mausoleum and usually visited in combination with it, the 14th-century Mudéjar Iglesia de San Pedro has colourful murals and a…

  • Catedral de San Pedro

    Aragón

    Jaca’s 11th-century cathedral is a formidable building, typical of the sturdy stone architecture of northern Aragón. It was once more gracefully French…

  • Museo Origami

    Zaragoza

    Zaragoza's museum devoted to the art of folding paper has six galleries of exhibits of a staggeringly high standard. Even if you're not very familiar with…

  • Castillo

    Aínsa

    The castle precinct off Plaza Mayor mostly dates from the 16th and 17th centuries; there are good views from the walls. The two surviving towers house…

  • Alma Mater Museum

    Zaragoza

    Slick multimedia exhibits set an arty tone as you follow a skilfully laid-out trajectory through the older elements of the building (a former royal and…

  • Colegiata de Santa María

    Aragón

    The Moorish alcázar (fortress) crowning Alquézar's highest point was replaced in 1099, after Christian conquest, by a fortified monastery. Some of the…

  • Museo de Miniaturas Militares

    Aragón

    The thought of a model soldier museum might not sound particularly enticing to anyone over the age of 10, but think again. The detailed battle scenes…

  • Iglesia de San Martín

    Aragón

    This Romanesque-cum-Gothic church contains a museum of colourful religious art from area churches, the highlight being San Martín's own gilded-wood mid…

  • Ayuntamiento

    Aragón

    The town hall’s 16th-century facade is an astonishing storybook of sculpture. The larger carvings depict mythical beings (you’ll spot Hercules on the left…

  • Museo de Albarracín

    Albarracín

    This well-designed museum explains Albarracín's fascinating history in absorbing detail in Spanish. Displays include archaeological finds from the castle,…

  • Castillo Mayor

    Aragón

    The hilltop castle on the north side of Daroca is not visible from the town below, but the hike up to it is well worthwhile for the evocatively ruined…

  • Iglesia de Santa María

    Aínsa

    Aínsa’s main church bears all the hallmarks of unadulterated Romanesque. Few embellishments mark its thick, bare walls, which date from the 11th century…

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