The old Roman Cursus to the height of the Seat of Spain can consider neuralgic the center
traditional of the city. Surroundings to him are centered great part of the commercial and banking life of
Zaragoza.
Directly communicated with the seat we were with the Low Enclosure for bullfighting in where
the Main Theater rises that was reconstructed in its totality after the 1778 fire and which it emphasizes
by its inner decoration with a painted scenic drop curtain and by its facades previous and later. Behind
him, in the street of the Verónica we will be able to enjoy the ruins of the constructed Roman Theater
at time of Augusto
In the center of the seat of Spain the Monument rises to the Martyrs of the Religion and of the
Mother country and in where it was the convent of San Francisco, founded on 1219, we at the moment
found the Palace of the Provincial Delegation, as we can see in the inferior image.
Passed the Spain Seat, to the other side of the Low Enclosure for bullfighting, we were with the
High Enclosure for bullfighting has been street of noble families and outstanding institutions.
Comprising of the buildings of the Provincial Delegation it is the Palace of Sástago raised between
1571 and 1573 to lodge to Count de Sástago who held the position of Virrey de Aragón and to be
residence of the Kings of Spain in its stays in the city. Later she would be host of the Post of
captain-general and the Main Casino.
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It emphasizes the impressive inner patio of unusual proportions. Before this Renaissance palace is
the modernist building that lodged the Mercantile and Industrial Casino. In its interior they also lodge the
Athenian de Zaragoza, founded on 1864, and one rich hemeroteca, all decorated it profusely.
Just before the door of the palace, we were with the entrance of the street Alfonso, and after
delighting in the recoleta seat of San Roque with the facade barroca to us of the church of the Mantería, we
found the palace of the Hearing, getting up in the middle of century XVI for residence of the count of Morata,
in which it emphasizes its magnificent dimensions, their inner patio of columns and its cover with the giant
representations of the mitológicos heroes Hercules and Teseo who flank it.
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To finish, uniting the high and low Enclosure for bullfighting, it appears the
Stroll of Independence, ordered to put in contact the seat of Spain and the seat of
Aragón.
An avenue equipped with a high index of centers and the commercial premises, news stands,
cafeterias, banks and the premises of spectacles. One of the buildings more characteristic than is
shown to this route is the central seat of Post office and Telegraphs, a building of 1926 of style to
neomúdejar that it is opposed to the Telephone building of of raigambre rationalist. Inspired by the
Rue Rivoli of Paris one conceived like a space opened with houses standardized in facades
where it went to live the bourgeoisie between 855 and 945.
Entering to us in the direction of the seat of the Situated ones, we arrived at the temple of
Santa Engracia who keeps in his cripta two excellent paleocristianos sarcófagos from the century IV
that remembers to the Christians persecuted in the Roman Zaragoza. Of which it was this I magnify
convent, today single it is left beautiful portalada a Renaissance one and cripta. |
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