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Huesca

Country:
Spain
State:
Andalucia
City:
Huesca
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

Huesca airport is located between the towns of Monflorite and Alcala del Obispo and is a reference to the Aragonese Pyrenees and which are the main ski slopes in Spain. Declared a general interest airport and incorporated into the Aena network in October 2000, the airport is open for visual flight operations since December 21, 2006. There are currently two different flying areas but not independent, one for the exclusive use of the gliders and other aircraft for the engine. The airport in 2010 transported 6368 passengers. In the 2010-2011 season of the airport companies were Pyrenair and Monarch Airlines fly to Madrid, A Coruna, Palma de Mallorca and London-Gatwick.

By Railway

Huesca has a rail station, rail and intercity bus opened in 2001. It is a type station intern in the line Zaragoza - Canfranc. The station has four platforms and six tracks, two for the high-speed and four for non-electrified regional traffic. The building is square, with street-level lobby. Above it rise two four-storey towers that correspond to a hotel and banquet halls.
  AVE : The station has the lines: Huesca, Zaragoza-Delicias - Madrid-Atocha and Huesca, Zaragoza-Delicias.
  Renfe Media Distancia : The station has the lines: Huesca- Jaca - Canfranc International Station and Huesca, Zaragoza-Delicias - Teruel - Valencia.

By road

Huesca is communicated with the other two provincial capitals of Aragon, Zaragoza and Teruel, via the motorway Mudejar, plus also communicates with the provincial capitals that border it, Pamplona along the national road N-240 and in the future close by Lerida by the A-22 upon completion of missing links. It also communicates with France through the N-330 where it crosses the border from Somport tunnel.

Key places to visit
Church of San Pedro el Viejo, Convento de San Miguel, Church of Santa Maria in Foris, Diocesan Museum of Huesca, Diocesan Museum of Huesca, Art and Nature Center Foundation Beulas, Pedagogical Museum of Aragon, Palacio de Congresos

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Places to Visit

Church of San Pedro el Viejo

 Monastery Romanesque of the twelfth century, which includes faculty and royal pantheon of the kings of Aragon ( Alfonso I the Battler and Ramiro II the Monk ). The tower is hexagonal in the late thirteenth century and is located in the old part of town. Houses inside the wall paintings of the thirteenth century, the choir stalls of the XVI century and the altarpiece of the early seventeenth century. It is a National Monument since 1885.

Convento de San Miguel

It is a set of late Romanesque. It was founded by Alfonso I in 1110. The building was a major hospital, leper colony and place of meeting, until the late fifteenth century. Has numerous style altarpieces Baroque choir and organ, dating from 1852. It is adjacent to Isuela river and the bridge of San Miguel. It is popularly called the "Michael" for being occupied by nuns Carmelite.

Church of Santa Maria in Foris

The church was built in the XIII century, consists of a nave and apse is polygonal. In the sixteenth century the Augustinians took charge of it, founded a convent, which was renamed St. Augustine. Recent excavations in the church about 700 skeletons found buried in quicklime and probably belonged to victims of the plague that occurred in the mid- seventeenth century.

Diocesan Museum of Huesca

The Diocesan Museum of Huesca was built by order of Bishop Rodrigo Lino. Located in Cathedral Square in the historic heart of Huesca and is dependent on the bishop of Huesca. It was founded in 1945 and was renewed in the structure into four chronological phases, from 1997 to 2004. Part of the museum itself is in the cathedral, has four rooms in which collections are distributed from different parishes of the Diocese of Huesca.

Huesca Provincial Archaeological Museum

The Museum of Huesca began to emerge into 1850 thanks to the initiative of the Provincial Monuments Commission, but thanks to Valentin Carderera, taking account of the creation of the museum, made it founded in June of 1873. The museum is located in University Square in the north of the city, near the cathedral and town hall. The building occupies two former headquarters, the Sertoriana University of Huesca and the former Palace of the Kings of Aragon.

Art and Nature Center Foundation Beulas

The Art and Nature Center Foundation Beulas (CDAN) is a museum space located Huesca, Spain, dedicated to contemporary art in Aragon. It is dedicated to the relationship between contemporary art, nature and landscape as well as the dissemination and study of the collection of works of art donated by the painter Jose Beulas

Pedagogical Museum of Aragon

The Pedagogical Museum of Aragon in the same building as the Tourist Office of Huesca, in the Plaza Lopez Allue. It was created in 2006 and specializes in culture and society of the twentieth century, as well as in school at the time.

Palacio de Congresos

The Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of the city of Huesca is a building built in 2008 in the construction arises in the absence of a building of its kind in the city: This caused problems in their economic and cultural development and projection nationally and internationally.

Monastery of San Pedro el Viejo

The Monastery of San Pedro el Viejo is a building Romanesque of the twelfth century located in the old city of Huesca ( Spain ). Considered a National Monument in 1885, architecture and sculpture make it one of the most important historical Aragonese Romanesque.

Cathedral of Santa Maria de Huesca

The Holy Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord of Huesca, also known as Catedral de Santa María de Huesca, style built in Gothic style, was begun in the late thirteenth century and finished in the early sixteenth century.

City Council of Huesca

The City of Huesca is the institution responsible for governing the city of Huesca, capital of the homonymous province and its region the Hoya de Huesca in Aragon, Spain.

Palacio de Villahermosa

The Palace of Villahermosa city Aragon in Huesca ( Spain ) is located in Villahermosa Duchess Street.
It is a palace-style Gothic (the XIV century ). The roof has recently been restored, you can see a mix of bestiaries and heraldic elements. These figures differ birds, leopards, snakes and Sirente.

Church of San Lorenzo

The Church, Basilica of San Lorenzo is a temple baroque city of Huesca built between 1608 and 1703. It was an ancient temple built on Romanesque, which was subsequently extended in the fourteenth century in Gothic style during the reign of James II of Aragon. Located in the Plaza de San Lorenzo, in what was the Moorish or neighborhood mosque of the city, outside the walls. It is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, since, according to tradition, was where his parents lived.

Church of Santo Domingo and San Martin

The church of Santo Domingo and San Martin is a parish Huesca dual invocation, which was originally the church of the convent of the Dominicans in this city founded by the Infante Don Alfonso in 1254, whose factory was destroyed in 1362 and rebuilt in the late fourteenth century

Right Time to Visit

April - June
September - November

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