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The museum was built in commemoration to the Sitios and was established in a Renaissance building that was built in 1908, because of the Spanish- French Exhibition that took place that year.
Its rooms are dedicated to the Archaeology and are decorated with Arab capitals and arches belonging to the Aljafería. There are also Romanesque and Gothic pieces, sepulchral monuments, etc.
It has a modern installation and important collections from Prehistory, Pre-Roman culture, Roman mosaics. The museum has two more sections that are located in the Parque Primo de Ribera: The Casa de Albarracín, which houses the Ceramic section, whose walls show the stylistic and functional evolution, as well as a varied collection of popular clays from Aragon; and the Casa Ansotana, dedicated to the Ethnology (clothes, farming implements, and popular arts).
In the section dedicated to the Fine Arts, works from the XII Century to the Contemporary times are shown. There is a valuable triptych of San Martín from the XV Century, which belonged to the convent of Santo Domingo, by Daroca and a great collection of primitive works from Aragon.
In the Goya section, there are portraits of Fernando VII and the Duke San Carlos among others. There are numerous paintings of Spanish schools from the XVI to the XIX Centuries by artists such as Bayeu, Coello, López, Jordán or Huguet, as well as sculptures by Alonso Berruguete or Gil Morlanes.
Built: XX Century (1908)
Author: Ricardo Magdalena, Julio Bravo
Style: Neorenaissance
Category: Museum
Type: Museum
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It was built as a leisure residence of the Taifas Kings, under the rule of the king al-Muqtadir. It conserves part of its primitive fortified precincts.
Later, it was reformed by the Christian Kings and most of it reformation was carried out by Fernando el Católico becoming a Christian alcazar of royal ownership. The palace has a great rectangular courtyard, with reservoirs on both ends next to two side porticoes with Late Gothic and polilobed arcades.
The exterior towers are rounded except for the Troubadour Tower that should be highlighted because of its height and rectangular floor, of great dimensions and organized in several floors. In the Northern portico, there is a small oratory of octagonal floor, with the mihrab in one of its sides decorated with atauriques (Islamic decoration based on vegetal motives).
From Christian times, it conserves a staircase of honour, several rooms decorated with sober coffered ceilings, and especially the Throne Room, that could be placed among the best works of this kind.
Nowadays, this palace is the headquarters of the Regional Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Aragon.
It was founded in 1564 by Don Hernando de Aragón, Fernando III de Aragon el Católico´ s brother. It has a Latin cross plan with only one nave that is divided into three bays, with a small enlargement like most of the transept of the Aragon churches, and a total length of 43.60 meters.
The plaster façade shows the scene of the Holy Assumption, designed in Baroque style, in a very typical style in Aragon from the end of the XVII Century. This work has been attributed to Ramírez de Arellano.
It is covered by a star- shape rib vault which is richly decorated with golden wood keystones that show the coat of arms of the founder.
The altarpiece of the church was built between 1755 and 1765 and is divided into three bodies, The chapel of the Agnus Dei, located behind the chancel, covered by a barrel vault, has a decoration based on paintings that are allegoric to the celestial and Eucharistic vision.
This church would be decorated by Goya in 1774, creating a season of 11 oils on linen from which only seven of them have survived, because the church was abandoned during the Spanish War of Independence and the subsequent Ecclesiastical Confiscation.
It is the first Christian Cathedral of Zaragoza. It is dedicated to St Salvador. It was built on the ruins of the roman forum temple, the Visigothic church and the Muslim Major Mosque.
The bishop Pedro Torroja starts the Cathedral in a Romanesque style, with three naves, transept and three semicircular apses. Between the XIV and the XV Century starts the construction of the current Gothic Cathedral, so a new central nave and two side naves are added. Its Baroque tower was built by Contini in 1686. The base dome, from the end of the XV Century, is a Juan Botero´ s work of art and is a star of eight points. In the middle of the XVI Century, the pillars and the vaults are reformed.
Inside, the Major Altar has a fabulous altarpiece by Meter Johan, with several sepulchres of Martyrs, archbishops and princes. The choir is closed by railings, with an artistic set of chairs in carved oak by Navarro. We should highlight the Plateresque Chapel of Zaporta and the Baroque Chapel of St Agustín as well as St. Valero´s among the chapels.
The Chapel of St. Bernardo has a great alabaster altarpiece. In the Chapter House there are great paintings of Ribera, Zurbarán and Goya. There is an excellent museum in the Sacristy, with masterpieces and especially with a Gothic and Renaissance Flemish tapestry collection.
It is one of the most emblematic places of the town. It comes from the XIII Century, when it was planned to build a building that could connect the cathedral with the new dean´ s house, who was the president of the chapter with a rank lower than the prelate.
The current arch, very restored, has the form carried out in the XIV Century, and the windowed balcony is its most eye- catching element, with windows with Gothic Mudejar tracery.
Nowadays, it is ownership of a financial organization and after its restoration it has become a museum and a residence for distinguished visitors.
