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   Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar

   A baroque basilica on the Ebro with eleven cupolas, built around a jasper pillar said to have been left by the Virgin when she appeared to St James in AD 40 — the first Marian apparition claimed anywhere. Two shells that hit it during the Civil War failed to explode and hang inside undetonated.

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   Aljafería

   A fortified palace raised in the second half of the 11th century for the Banu Hud rulers of the taifa of Zaragoza, and the only large palace of that age to survive in Spain. With Cordoba and the Alhambra it ranks among the three great works of Hispano-Muslim building; the Aragonese parliament sits in it, and UNESCO listed it in 2001.

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   Cathedral of the Savior in his Epiphany of Zaragoza

   The city's actual cathedral, called La Seo to distinguish it from the Pilar four hundred metres away, built between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries on the site of the main mosque. Its brick and tile Mudéjar outer wall is part of the Aragonese World Heritage listing.

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   Caesaraugusta

   The Roman colony founded in 14 BC on the Iberian town of Salduie, and the only city in the empire to carry Augustus's full name. Four museums cover what has been dug up of it: the forum, the river port, the baths and the theatre.

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   Basilica of Saint Engratia

   A basilica on the spot where Engratia and eighteen companions were said to have been martyred in 303, whose crypt holds two fourth-century Roman sarcophagi carved with biblical scenes. The church above was blown up in the 1808 siege and rebuilt around the surviving alabaster portal.

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   Saragossa Museum

   The city's oldest museum, in a neo-Renaissance pavilion built for the 1908 Hispano-French exposition, covering everything from the Lower Palaeolithic to the twentieth century. Fifteen Goya paintings and the mosaics from Roman Caesaraugusta are the reasons to go.

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   bullring of Zaragoza

   A bullring of 1764, one of the oldest in Spain, seating 10,072 under a nineteenth-century iron and brick structure. The main season runs during the Fiestas del Pilar in October.

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   Plaza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar

   A plaza of 500 metres by 50 running from the Pilar to La Seo, cleared to this scale only in the 1990s, and the largest urban square in Spain. Offerings of flowers are stacked on a fifteen-metre frame here on 12 October by tens of thousands of people in regional dress.

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   Roman Theatre of Zaragoza

   A Roman theatre of the first century AD seating six thousand, buried under later building and rediscovered in 1972 when a block of flats was being put up. It is now roofed in translucent panels and shown as a museum with the excavation left open.

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    Salduie

    The Iberian town that stood on this bend of the Ebro before Rome refounded it as Caesaraugusta in 14 BC. Its name appears on coins and on the bronze tablet of Ascoli, which lists Salduie cavalrymen granted Roman citizenship in 89 BC.

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   Goya Museum - Ibercaja Collection - Camón Aznar Museum

   A gallery in a sixteenth-century Aragonese palace holding the only complete set of all four of Goya's print series — the Caprichos, the Disasters of War, the Tauromaquia and the Disparates. Aragonese painting from the fifteenth century onward fills the other floors.

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   Abbey of Santa Engracia

   A former Hieronymite monastery raised over the crypt where the Roman martyrs of Zaragoza were buried, and a royal foundation of Ferdinand the Catholic. Napoleon's troops destroyed it in the sieges of 1808 and 1809; the alabaster doorway survived and the church was rebuilt in the 1890s.

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   Charterhouse of Aula Dei

   A Carthusian charterhouse ten kilometres north of the city, founded in 1564, whose cloister walls carry seven large canvases Goya painted in 1774 on the life of the Virgin. Four were destroyed after the monks were expelled; the monastery admits visitors on limited days.

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   Delicias

   The most populous district of Zaragoza, west of the centre, and the site of the main station where the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed line stops. It grew around the rail yards and has been rebuilt as housing since the tracks were sunk.

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   Fuente de la Hispanidad

   A fountain at the west end of the Pilar square whose basin is cut in the outline of Latin America, so that the water runs down the shape of the continent. It was built for the 1991 quincentenary approach, with a stepped waterfall standing for the Pyrenees.

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   Casetas

   A borough fifteen kilometres west of Zaragoza, an independent village until it was absorbed in the 1920s. Irrigated farmland along the Ebro and a large railway marshalling yard set the character of it.

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   Puerta del Carmen

   An eighteenth-century neoclassical city gate, one of the few pieces of the wall left, and the position where French troops broke into the city on 4 August 1808. Musket and cannon damage from the two sieges was deliberately left unrepaired and is still visible on the face.

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   Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Zaragoza

   A fourteenth-century Mudéjar church whose brick and glazed-tile tower, built by Muslim craftsmen for a Christian parish, is part of the Aragonese Mudéjar World Heritage site. Roman housing was excavated under the nave.

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   Church of St. Giles the Abbot, Zaragoza

   A Mudejar church in the old town, its brick bell tower built in the 14th century on the pattern of a minaret and set with glazed tile. The body was recast in baroque form, but tower and apse keep their Moorish brickwork.

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    Puerta de Toledo

    One of the twelve gates in the walls of Zaragoza, raised on the remains of the Roman circuit near San Juan de los Panetes and the back of today's Central Market. It was pulled down in 1842, and only the arches around the statue of Augustus recalled it into modern times.

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