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Aragon (in Spanish: Aragon, in Catalan: Aragó) is an autonomous community of Spain, which currently occupies the same territory as the ancient kingdom of Aragon, is located in the northeastern part of the country and stretches from the north to the middle of the Iberian Peninsula
In the north, Aragon has a land border with France, on other sides of the world it borders with the same autonomous communities of Spain: in the northwest - with Navarre and La Rioja, in the west - with Castile-Leon, in the southwest - with, in the south and in the southeast - with Valencia, in the east - with Catalonia. Administrative center Aragon adopted the city of Zaragoza. The official City Day is April 23, the day of St. George (Spanish: San Jorge), the patron saint of this region.
Highways connect the center of Aragon - Zaragoza - with the Basque Country, Navarre, Barcelona and Madrid. There are secondary highways between the main cities of the community, as well as between Teruel and Valencia. home Railway connects Zaragoza with Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. Zaragoza also has an international airport.
Aragon is divided into three provinces - Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel, which are large administrative cities.
Zaragoza is one of the most majestic and ancient cities in Spain. It was built by the Romans in 27 BC. In ancient times, the city was surrounded by walls made of white marble and it was called the “white city.”
The city preserves on its streets and in its museums a huge historical heritage left by the Romans and from the times of Muslim Spain.
The Aljafería Palace, a universally recognized treasure of Zaragoza and the jewel of the Moorish style in Spain, was built outside the walls of the Old City in the 11th century by Al-Muqtadir.

Teruel is a very distinctive city in Aragon, with excellent Mudejar architecture that combines Gothic compositional techniques with Moorish art.
Most interesting buildings – Cathedral with delightful bell towers and the churches of San Martín, San Pedro and the church of El Salvador.

Huesca - located at the foot of the Pyrenees, visitors will find natural places and medieval buildings of unimaginable beauty. Huesca is lively market town and the economic center of Haute Aragon.
Aragon ranks fourth in area compared to other regions of Spain such as Andalusia, Castile - La Mancha and Castile y Leon and covers an area of ​​approximately 47,719 sq. km.
In 2005, the population was approximately 1,269.1 thousand people, of which approximately half lived in Zaragoza. The official language in Aragon is Spanish (or Castilian), but in some areas of the region the population speaks the local dialect (Aragonese and Catalan). The Aragonese language is preserved in small settlements of Huesca, about 12 thousand people. speaks it, and Catalan is spoken in the east of Aragon, in the so-called Franja.
Aragon is an amazingly beautiful region of Spain, which amazes everyone who has visited here with its natural contrasts: clear lakes and deep gorges, its natural springs and vast, green spaces.
On the territory of Aragon we can distinguish a large number of places with different microclimates, this is due to the orography of the region. In general, for the region, the climate can be described as intermediate between Mediterranean and continental. Average temperatures here depend on the surface height above sea level. For example, in the Ebro River Valley, winters are relatively mild, and in summer temperatures can reach + 40 degrees. In mountainous areas, winters are much longer, and average temperatures are 10 degrees lower than in the valley.

Timezone Code ISO 3166-2 Coordinates : 41°00′ n. w. /  1°00′ W d. / 41.000; -1.000 41.000° N. w. 1.000° W. d.

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Story Autonomous community autonomous community Spain Spain , originated in Middle Ages Franks Frankish Aragon (river) (Spanish Spanish Rio Aragon Aragon Subordan (page missing) (Spanish Aragon Subordan Rio Aragón Subordán Kingdom of Navarre.

Navarre

Independence Kingdom of Aragon kingdom Alfonso I won back Zaragoza, which became the capital of Aragon, and expanded the borders of the state beyond the Ebro River. In with Aragon based personal union was merged Barcelona County; then other lands were included in Aragon Catalonia, the Counts of Barcelona became kings of Aragon. The county was annexed Roussillon, in - recaptured from Moors Balearic Islands(where a sovereign kingdom was formed Mallorca, re-conquered by Aragon in -), in - Valencia. B - the kings of Aragon established themselves in Sicily, in - on Sardinia, at the expense of the union - at Kingdom of Naples.

Included kingdom of aragon were the most economically developed Catalonia And Valencia who retained significant independence (their own Cortes, legislation and management); Aragon itself was one of the most economically backward areas; nevertheless, political dominance belonged to Aragon, whose strong, united nobility secured for itself enormous privileges in the exploitation of the population of both Aragon and the lands under its control. Zaragoza Cortes of 1281 legally established severe forms of serfdom among peasants. In the XIII-XIV centuries. Serfdom in Aragon and Catalonia strengthened (in Aragon it remained until XVII c., in contrast to Catalonia, where it was destroyed in). The policies of the Aragonese kings were determined by the Cortes (who appeared in Aragon in), reflecting the interests of the highest nobility. "General Privilege" Pedro III(-) in and “Privilege of Union” Alfonso III(-) in granted the nobility the right to defend their liberties with arms in hand (up to the deposition of the king). By abolishing the “Privilege of Union” in the middle XIV V. the intervention of the nobility in government was somewhat limited; however, the power of the feudal lords over the peasants was completely preserved.

XX century

Administrative division

Provinces Adm. center Population,
people (2011)		 Square,
km²		 Comarcas Qty
municipalities
Zaragoza Zaragoza 973 325 17 274 Aranda , Bajo Aragon Caspe , Campo de Belchite , Campo de Borja , Campo de Cariñena , Campo de Daroca , Cinco Villas , Comunidad de Calatayud , Ribera Alta del Ebro , Ribera Baja del Ebro , Tarazona y el Moncayo , Valdejalon , Zaragoza
Huesca Huesca 227 609 15 636 Alto Gallego , Bajo Xinca , Sinca-Medio , Hoya de Huesca , Khasetania , La Litera , Monegros , Ribagorza , Sobrarbe , Somontano de Barbastro
Teruel Teruel 144 607 14 808 Bajo Martin , Khiloka , Cuencas Mineras , Andorra-Sierra de Arcos , Greater Teruel , Maestrasgo , Sierra de Albarracin , Gudar-Havalambre , Matarrania

Demography

Population of provincial capitals:

Language situation

Most people in Aragon speak Castilian(Spanish) language, which is the official language. In some areas of the region there are native speakers of Aragonese and Catalan.

Aragonese Cortes are the legislative body of Aragon. The Cortes includes 67 deputies, currently divided into 5 parties ( PSOE , , PAR , CHA, ). The Cortes are located in the palace Aljaferia.

Distribution of seats in the Cortes ():

  • PSOE: 27 seats.
  • : 22 places.
  • CHA: 9 seats.
  • PAR: 8 seats.
  • : 1 place.

In some areas, a sword dance is performed, simulating a fight between Moors and Christians.

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The chief manager, to console these losses, presented Pierre with a calculation that, despite these losses, his income not only would not decrease, but would increase if he refused to pay the debts remaining after the countess, to which he could not be obliged, and if he does not renew the Moscow houses and the Moscow region, which cost eighty thousand annually and brought nothing.
“Yes, yes, it’s true,” said Pierre, smiling cheerfully. - Yes, yes, I don’t need any of this. I became much richer from ruin.
But in January Savelich arrived from Moscow, told him about the situation in Moscow, about the estimate that the architect made for him to renovate the house and the Moscow region, speaking about it as if it was a settled matter. At the same time, Pierre received a letter from Prince Vasily and other acquaintances from St. Petersburg. The letters talked about his wife's debts. And Pierre decided that the manager’s plan, which he liked so much, was wrong and that he needed to go to St. Petersburg to finish off his wife’s affairs and build in Moscow. Why this was necessary, he did not know; but he knew without a doubt that it was necessary. As a result of this decision, his income decreased by three quarters. But it was necessary; he felt it.
Villarsky was traveling to Moscow, and they agreed to go together.
Throughout his recovery in Orel, Pierre experienced a feeling of joy, freedom, and life; but when, during his travels, he found himself in the free world and saw hundreds of new faces, this feeling intensified even more. Throughout the trip he felt the joy of a schoolboy on vacation. All the faces: the driver, the caretaker, the men on the road or in the village - everyone had a new meaning for him. The presence and comments of Villarsky, who constantly complained about poverty, backwardness from Europe, and ignorance of Russia, only increased Pierre's joy. Where Villarsky saw deadness, Pierre saw an extraordinary powerful force of vitality, that force that in the snow, in this space, supported the life of this whole, special and united people. He did not contradict Villarsky and, as if agreeing with him (since feigned agreement was the shortest way to bypass reasoning from which nothing could come of it), smiled joyfully as he listened to him.

Just as it is difficult to explain why and where ants rush from a scattered hummock, some away from the hummock, dragging specks, eggs and dead bodies, others back into the hummock - why they collide, catch up with each other, fight - it is just as difficult It would be possible to explain the reasons that forced the Russian people, after the French left, to crowd into the place that was formerly called Moscow. But just as, looking at the ants scattered around a devastated hummock, despite the complete destruction of the hummock, one can see from the tenacity, energy, and countless swarming insects that everything has been destroyed except for something indestructible, immaterial, which makes up the entire strength of the hummock - so too and Moscow, in the month of October, despite the fact that there were no authorities, no churches, no shrines, no wealth, no houses, Moscow was the same as it was in August. Everything was destroyed, except for something insubstantial, but powerful and indestructible.
The motives of people rushing from all sides to Moscow after its cleansing from the enemy were the most varied, personal, and at first mostly wild, animal. There was only one impulse common to everyone - this desire to go there, to that place that was formerly called Moscow, to carry out their activities there.
A week later there were already fifteen thousand inhabitants in Moscow, after two there were twenty-five thousand, etc. Rising and rising, this number by the autumn of 1813 reached a figure exceeding the population of the 12th year.
The first Russian people who entered Moscow were the Cossacks of the Wintzingerode detachment, men from neighboring villages and residents who fled from Moscow and were hiding in its environs. The Russians who entered devastated Moscow, finding it plundered, also began to plunder. They continued what the French were doing. Convoys of men came to Moscow in order to take away to the villages everything that had been thrown along the ruined Moscow houses and streets. The Cossacks took what they could to their headquarters; the owners of the houses took everything that they found in other houses and brought it to themselves under the pretext that it was their property.
But after the first robbers came others, third ones, and the robbery every day, as the number of robbers increased, became more and more difficult and took on more definite forms.
The French found Moscow, although empty, with all the forms of an organically correctly living city, with its various departments of trade, crafts, luxury, government controlled, religion. These forms were lifeless, but they still existed. There were rows, benches, stores, warehouses, bazaars - most with goods; there were factories, craft establishments; there were palaces, rich houses filled with luxury goods; there were hospitals, prisons, public places, churches, cathedrals. The longer the French stayed, the more these forms of urban life were destroyed, and in the end everything merged into one indivisible, lifeless field of plunder.
The robbery of the French, the more it continued, the more it destroyed the wealth of Moscow and the forces of the robbers. The robbery of the Russians, with which the occupation of the capital by the Russians began, the longer it lasted, the more participants there were in it, the faster it restored the wealth of Moscow and the correct life of the city.
In addition to the robbers, the most diverse people, drawn - some by curiosity, some by duty of service, some by calculation - homeowners, clergy, high and low officials, merchants, artisans, men - from different sides, like blood to the heart - flowed to Moscow.
A week later, the men who arrived with empty carts to take away things were stopped by the authorities and forced to take the dead bodies out of the city. Other men, having heard about the failure of their comrades, came to the city with bread, oats, hay, lowering the price for each other to a price lower than the previous one. Artels of carpenters, hoping for expensive earnings, entered Moscow every day, and new ones were cut from all sides, and burnt houses were repaired. Merchants opened trade in booths. Taverns and inns were set up in burnt houses. The clergy resumed services in many churches that had not burned. Donors brought looted church items. The officials arranged their tables with cloth and cabinets with papers in small rooms. The higher authorities and the police ordered the distribution of the goods left behind by the French. The owners of those houses in which a lot of things brought from other houses were left complained about the injustice of taking all the things to the Faceted Chamber; others insisted that the French had brought things from different houses to one place, and therefore it was unfair to give the owner of the house those things that were found with him. They scolded the police; bribed her; they wrote ten times the estimates for the burnt government items; demanded assistance. Count Rastopchin wrote his proclamations.

At the end of January, Pierre arrived in Moscow and settled in the surviving outbuilding. He went to see Count Rastopchin and some acquaintances who had returned to Moscow, and was planning to go to St. Petersburg on the third day. Everyone celebrated the victory; everything was seething with life in the ruined and reviving capital. Everyone was happy to see Pierre; everyone wanted to see him, and everyone asked him about what he had seen. Pierre felt especially friendly towards all the people he met; but now he involuntarily kept himself on guard with all people, so as not to tie himself to anything. He answered all questions that were put to him, whether important or most insignificant, with the same vagueness; Did they ask him: where will he live? will it be built? when is he going to St. Petersburg and will he undertake to carry the box? - he answered: yes, maybe, I think, etc.
He heard about the Rostovs, that they were in Kostroma, and the thought of Natasha rarely came to him. If she came, it was only as a pleasant memory of the long past. He felt free not only from everyday conditions, but also from this feeling, which, as it seemed to him, he had deliberately brought upon himself.
On the third day of his arrival in Moscow, he learned from the Drubetskys that Princess Marya was in Moscow. Death, suffering, last days Prince Andrei often occupied Pierre and now came to his mind with new vividness. Having learned at dinner that Princess Marya was in Moscow and was living in her unburnt house on Vzdvizhenka, he went to see her that same evening.
On the way to Princess Marya, Pierre kept thinking about Prince Andrei, about his friendship with him, about various meetings with him, and especially about the last one in Borodino.
“Did he really die in the angry mood he was in then? Wasn’t the explanation of life revealed to him before his death?” - thought Pierre. He remembered Karataev, about his death, and involuntarily began to compare these two people, so different and at the same time so similar in love that he had for both, and because both lived and both died.
In the most serious mood, Pierre drove up to the old prince's house. This house survived. It showed signs of destruction, but the character of the house was the same. An old waiter with a stern face who met Pierre, as if wanting to make the guest feel that the prince’s absence did not disturb the order of the house, said that the princess deigned to go to her rooms and was received on Sundays.
- Report; maybe they’ll accept it,” said Pierre.
“I’m listening,” answered the waiter, “please go to the portrait room.”
A few minutes later the waiter and Desalles came out to see Pierre. Desalles, on behalf of the princess, told Pierre that she was very glad to see him and asked, if he would excuse her for her impudence, to go upstairs to her rooms.
In a low room, lit by one candle, the princess and someone else were sitting with her, in a black dress. Pierre remembered that the princess always had companions with her. Who these companions were and what they were like, Pierre did not know and did not remember. “This is one of the companions,” he thought, looking at the lady in a black dress.
The princess quickly stood up to meet him and extended her hand.
“Yes,” she said, peering into his changed face after he kissed her hand, “this is how you and I meet.” They Lately often talked about you,” she said, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that struck Pierre for a moment.
“I was so glad to hear about your salvation.” This was the only good news we received for a long time. - Again, the princess looked back at her companion even more restlessly and wanted to say something; but Pierre interrupted her.
“You can imagine that I knew nothing about him,” he said. “I thought he was killed.” Everything I learned, I learned from others, through third hands. I only know that he ended up with the Rostovs... What a fate!
Pierre spoke quickly and animatedly. He looked once at the face of his companion, saw a carefully, affectionately curious gaze fixed on him, and, as often happens during a conversation, for some reason he felt that this companion in a black dress was a sweet, kind, nice creature who would not disturb him. intimate conversation with Princess Marya.
But when he said last words About the Rostovs, the confusion in the face of Princess Marya was expressed even more strongly. She again ran her eyes from Pierre’s face to the face of the lady in a black dress and said:
- Don't you recognize it?
Pierre looked again at the pale, thin face of his companion, with black eyes and a strange mouth. Something dear, long forgotten and more than sweet looked at him from those attentive eyes.
“But no, this can’t be,” he thought. – Is this a stern, thin and pale, aged face? It can't be her. This is just a memory of that.” But at this time Princess Marya said: “Natasha.” And the face, with attentive eyes, with difficulty, with effort, like a rusty door opening, smiled, and from this open door it suddenly smelled and doused Pierre with that long-forgotten happiness, which, especially now, he did not think about. It smelled, engulfed and swallowed him all up. When she smiled, there could no longer be any doubt: it was Natasha, and he loved her.
In the very first minute, Pierre involuntarily told both her, Princess Marya, and, most importantly, himself a secret unknown to him. He blushed joyfully and painfully. He wanted to hide his excitement. But the more he wanted to hide it, the more clearly—more clearly than in the most definite words—he told himself, and her, and Princess Marya that he loved her.
“No, it’s just out of surprise,” thought Pierre. But just as he wanted to continue the conversation he had begun with Princess Marya, he looked at Natasha again, and an even stronger blush covered his face, and an even stronger emotion of joy and fear gripped his soul. He got lost in his words and stopped mid-speech.
Pierre did not notice Natasha, because he did not expect to see her here, but he did not recognize her because the change that had happened in her since he had not seen her was enormous. She lost weight and became pale. But this was not what made her unrecognizable: she could not be recognized in the first minute when he entered, because on this face, in whose eyes before there had always shone a hidden smile of the joy of life, now, when he entered and looked at her for the first time, there was no there was a hint of a smile; there were only eyes, attentive, kind and sadly questioning.
Pierre's embarrassment did not affect Natasha with embarrassment, but only with pleasure, which subtly illuminated her entire face.

“She came to visit me,” said Princess Marya. – The Count and Countess will be there one of these days. The Countess is in a terrible situation. But Natasha herself needed to see the doctor. She was forcibly sent with me.
– Yes, is there a family without its own grief? - Pierre said, turning to Natasha. – You know that it was on the very day we were released. I saw him. What a lovely boy he was.
Natasha looked at him, and in response to his words, her eyes only opened more and lit up.
– What can you say or think for consolation? - said Pierre. - Nothing. Why did such a nice boy, full of life, die?
“Yes, in our time it would be difficult to live without faith...” said Princess Marya.

A small county called Aragon arose between the Aragon River and its tributary Aragon Subordan in 828 until the beginning of the 11th century. was part of the Kingdom of Navarre. However, the Aragonese nobility was distinguished by considerable unity and class pride. “We, who are as worthy as you, make you our King and Seigneur to protect our rights and freedoms, and if not, then no,” was the text of the oath of allegiance that noble Aragonese took to their chosen kings.

In 1118, Aragon captured Zaragoza, which at that time belonged to the Muslims. King Apfonso I gave the Muslims one year to leave the city, and Aragon became the capital of the kingdom. Queen Petronilla of Aragon (1136-1173) married the Count of Barcelona and thanks to this dynastic union, the Aragonese Crown arose - a union of several states, which in the XIV-XV centuries. occupied a significant part of the territory of modern Spain and southwestern France, as well as several large islands V . The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, concluded in 1469 in Valladolid, subsequently led to the unification of the kingdoms. This was the beginning of the formation of a united Spain. It was Ferdinand and Isabella who sent the expedition of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) in 1492, which discovered New World.
One of the most famous natives of Aragon is the artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828). His home village of Fuendetodos is just an hour's drive from Zaragoza. If you get to know Aragon more closely, you will understand that only here could such a temperamental and proud genius as Goya be born.
We can talk endlessly about the romanticism of the Aragonese people. Here in the city of Teruel, in the Church of San Pedro, there is one of the most visited places by tourists, the Mausoleum of Lovers, Mausoleo de los Amantes. The “Teruel lovers” Isabel de Segura and Juan Diego de Marsilla, who lived in the 13th century, are buried here. Isabel's parents refused to marry their daughter to poor Diego, but agreed to wait five years so that the young man could get rich - and after five years he returned to hometown rich man But... I was only one day late - Isabel was married off. Diego died at her feet, and the day after his funeral she died too. The townspeople, touched by this story, decided to bury the lovers together.
Another “brand” of Aragon is the jota song-dance, which originated here around the 18th century. And already in the 19th century. Russian composer Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) visited Spain and wrote La Jota Aragonese (1845).
The Aragonese language has also been preserved. True, real Aragonese is spoken in Aragon today by no more than 30,000 people. After the unification of Aragon and Castile, the language of the Aragonese aristocracy quickly became the Castilian version of the Spanish language, and which arose in the 7th-8th centuries. from popular Latin, the Aragonese language was pushed to the periphery. The revival and preservation of the Aragonese language began already in the 20th century.

general information

Aragon, an autonomous community within the Kingdom of Spain.
Form of government: a constitutional monarchy.
Administrative division: 3 provinces - Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel.
Capital: Zaragoza, 701,090 people. (2010).
Ethnic composition: Aragonese, Catalans, Basques, French, other nationalities.
Language: Spanish (Castilian Aragonese, Catalan).
Religion: Catholicism, Islam, other religions.
Currency unit: Euro.
Largest cities: Zaragoza, Huesca, Teruel.
Major airports: Zaragoza airport.
Largest rivers:, Arba, Aragon, Gallego, Noguera, Alcanadre, Jalón, Huerva, Guadalope.
Largest lakes: vdhr. Esa, Vdkhr. Canelles, Vdhr. Mequinenza.
Neighboring countries: France also borders the autonomous communities of Castile-La Mancha, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, La Rioja, Navarre and Valencia.

Numbers

Area: 47,719 km2.
Population: 1,269,027 people
Population density: 26.6 people/km 2 .
The most high point: Aneto peak, 3404 m.

Climate and weather

Intermediate between Mediterranean and continental, temperatures largely depend on altitude.
The coldest areas are in the Pyrenees.
Average January temperature: +6.3ºС. July - +24.5ºС.
Average annual precipitation: 317 mm (Zaragoza)

Economy

■ GDP per capita is higher than the Spanish average.
■ Developed Agriculture, growing wheat, barley, winemaking, livestock.
■ Food industry, mechanical engineering, electronics industry, iron ore and coal mining, aluminum production, hydroelectric power, chemical industry.
■ Service sector: exhibition activities, tourism.

Attractions

■ Zaragoza: Cathedral of San Salvador, Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Chilar, Foro de Cesaraugusta Museum, Tuerto Fluvia de Cezaraugusta Museum, Exchange building, Ibercaya Museum, Zaragoza History Center, ruins of the Roman theater in the Plaza de San Pedro, Zaragoza Museum, Pablo Gargallo Museum. Arguillo Palace, Aljaferia Palace, Casco Viejo Museum, Santiago Church, Facetas Monastery, Pilarista Museum, Sacristica Mayor Museum of Religious Art, Condes de Morata Palace;
■ City of Sos del Rey Católico;
■ Wine Museum in Cariñena;
■ Huesca; Old city(Casco Viejo), Cathedral, Dioseano Museum, Huesca Museum, Loarre Castle;
■ Alquezar town.
■ Teruel: historical part of the city, La Catedral de Santa Maria de Mediavilla, bell tower of Torre de San Martin, La Escalinata staircase, Church of Iglesia de San Ledro, Torre de San Martin tower Salvador. Los Arcos Aqueduct, Gothic Church of San Francisco, Castillo de Alambes, Palacio Episcopal (Museum of Ecclesiastical Art), Teruel Museum, Mausoleo de los Amantes.
■ National Park Ordesa Monte Perdido.

Curious facts

■ Zaragoza is considered by many to be the “most Spanish” city in Spain. And this city was founded in 24 BC. e. by the Romans under the name of Caesarius Augusta. Zaragoza is a distortion ancient name once a Roman city, from which many picturesque ruins remain.
■ The famous Aragonese cheese “Queso de Tronchon”, which is made from a mixture of sheep and goat milk, is mentioned in the “encyclopedia of Spanish life” - the novel “Don Quixote”.

High mountain valleys, snow-capped peaks, clear lakes and deep gorges, terraces of the former royal capital of Zaragoza, battlements knight's castles in the remote area of ​​​​Maestrasgo - this is what the birthplace of the great Goya looks like today, the most sparsely populated part of Spain - an autonomous community.

Among the isolated regions of Spain, the Autonomous Community is the most isolated. It is located in the northeast of the country in the Erbo River basin. The center of the autonomous community of Aragon is the Aragonese lowland, surrounded by the Cantabrian, Iberian and Catalan mountains. The Central Pyrenees cut off Aragon from France.

One of the characteristic natural features of Aragon are mountain rivers and lakes, healing natural springs. Stormy mountain streams contrast with the calm Yerbo River, which in the east flows through the highest mountain range of the Iberian system - Moncayo.


Aragon is one of the centers of Spanish culture of the Middle Ages, and from its glorious past it inherited a huge number of architectural monuments, castles and churches. The calling card of the Autonomous Community of Aragon - Jota ( jota ), song and dance at the same time. Jota appeared in Aragon in XVIII century and since then not a single local holiday is complete without this rhythmic and fiery melody.

The Autonomous Community of Aragon includes three provinces: Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel. In general, this is the most sparsely populated part of Spain between the Pyrenees and the Meseta.

Zaragoza is the largest province of Aragon. More than half of all its inhabitants live here. The city of the same name ranks sixth among largest cities Spain. Over 600 thousand people live in modern Zaragoza.

The administrative center of the province of Huesca has 50 thousand inhabitants and is the economic center of upper Aragon. The city of Huesca was founded by the Iberians, then it was chosen by the Romans, the Romans were replaced here by the Arabs, from whose rule Huesca was liberated already in 1096. Today it is a market town, but also has a small university.

The city of Teruel is rightfully considered the pearl of Mudejar art. Moorish architects, who enjoyed special rights, continued to work in Teruel until 1502, when the last mosque was closed.

An area of ​​particular interest to tourists is located in the north of Aragon in the Pyrenees. It is especially attractive for climbers and rafting enthusiasts, and is very popular among mountain bikers and fans of alpine skiing.

Natural sources of healing thermal waters make Aragon a place of pilgrimage for those who want to improve and strengthen their health using water procedures. The healing power of local waters was known to the ancient Romans, and the Arabs did not disdain such treatment. Since then, thermal baths have been preserved here, and modern health complexes Aragon offers its guests a wide range of therapeutic and cosmetic procedures based on medicinal waters.

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