Aragon Guide

Aljaferia Castle, Zaragoza City - Muslim Spain makes its mark at the Aljafería, the country's finest Muslim-era edifice outside Andalucía. The Aljaferia was built as a pleasure palace for Zaragoza's Muslim rulers in the 11th century. From the 12th century Zaragoza's Christian rulers made alterations, and in the 1490s ...

Fortea Tower, Zaragoza City - Built to a square plan, the lower part is of stone and the rest is of brick. 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 ...

La Zuda Tower, Zaragoza City - The seat of the Muslim 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 to Jaime. Its present aspect dates and the characteristics of palatial architecture of the period. It is used today as ...

San Martin Church, Teruel City, Teruel - San Martin church already existed in 1196, but the current church actually dates back to the 17th century. It has three naves, an ambulatory, a pointed barrel vault with small windows in the central nave and arris vaults in the side naves. The oldest part of the church is the Gothic-Mudejar ...

Troubadour Tower, Zaragoza City - The oldest construction of the Aljaferia is called Torre del Trovador (Troubadour Tower). The tower received this name from Antonio Garcia Gutierrez’s 1836 romantic drama The Troubadour. The drama was converted into a libretto for Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore in 1853. The ...