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Zaragoza is home to a Spanish Air and Space Force base, which was shared with the U.S. Air Force until 1992. [57] In English, the base was known as Zaragoza Air Base. The Spanish Air Force maintained a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet wing at the base. No American flying wings (with the exception of a few KC-135s) were permanently based there ...
La Seo Cathedral-- part of the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon; gothic high altar in polychrome alabaster by Pere Johan (1394/1397 - after 1458) [4]; El Pilar Basilica-- high altar in alabaster by Damián Forment (1515–1518), frescoes by Francisco de Goya [5]
The Plaza of Our Lady of the Pillar (in Spanish: Plaza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar or simply Plaza del Pilar) is one of the busiest popular places in Zaragoza, Spain. In it is the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, where the homonymous Marian invocation is venerated. It is known by the nickname of "El salón de la ciudad" (in ...
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This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 21 February 2006. Lostal Pros, Joaquín; Arturo Ansón Navarro (2001). Historia de cuatro ciudades: Salduie, Caesaraugusta, Saraqusta, Zaragoza (in Spanish). Zaragosa: Ayuntamiento, Servicio de Cultura: Caja Inmaculada.
This is a list of famous ... (born 1950), Spanish interior minister and mayor of Zaragoza; ... Jesús Moncada (1941–2005), Aragonese writer in Catalan language;
Zaragoza (Spanish pronunciation: [θaɾaˈɣoθa]), also called Saragossa in English, [1] is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is the city of Zaragoza , which is also the capital of the autonomous community.
Capitals in the Taifal palace. The construction of the palace, mostly completed between 1065 and 1081, [4] was ordered by Abú Ja'far Ahmad ibn Sulaymán al-Muqtadir Billah, known by his honorary title of al-Muqtadir (the powerful), the second monarch of the Banu Hud dynasty, as a symbol of the power achieved by the Taifa of Zaragoza in the second half of the 11th century.