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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 ...
1514 – Church of Santa Engracia de Zaragoza built. [citation needed] 1754 – Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar built. 1808 – June–August: Siege of Saragossa by French forces. [3] 1809 – Siege of Saragossa by French forces. [3] 1857 – Population: 63,399. [5] 1892 – Leaning Tower of Zaragoza demolished. 1897 – Population: 98,188. [5]
The French invasion of 1808 that made Joseph Bonaparte King led to the outbreak of the Guerra de la Independencia Española or War of Independence in May. Zaragoza was largely destroyed in February 1809 during the Second Siege of Zaragoza, bringing a halt to its economic development.
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 Hispano-French Exposition was an exposition held in Zaragoza from May to December 1908 to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the first siege of Zaragoza. History [ edit ]
The convent was founded by the infante Peter of Aragon in 1219, although with the damage it received during the Napoleonic French invasion and French sieges of Zaragoza was almost completely ruined. Its church was magnificent and provided a single nave measuring 246 feet long by 75 latitude.
Baroque altar decorations of wood with paintings by Jusepe Martínez (1647), a painter from Zaragoza. Alabaster sculpture of the Virgin with child from the fifteenth century made by the French sculptor Fortaner de Uesques. On the floor lie various tombstones of the archbishops of Zaragoza from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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.