Heritage towns in Zaragoza

A walled medieval town in Zaragoza province, its four Romanesque churches, 16th-century tunnel and 1639 monumental fountain marking it as one of Aragón's most historically layered stops.

Birthplace of Ferdinand II of Aragon, this hilltop fortress town in Zaragoza province still wears its medieval skin — castle, walls, Romanesque crypt and Renaissance palaces stacked up the same rocky outcrop they have occupied for a thousand years.

A city of layered stone and brick in Zaragoza province, where a Gothic-Mudéjar cathedral, a Renaissance bishop's palace and a tightly packed medieval quarter earn it the old nickname of "the Aragonese Toledo."

A fortified Aragonese town set on a rocky outcrop above two rivers, its six Romanesque churches, castle, and medieval street plan standing largely unchanged since the twelfth century.

An ancient Celtiberian mint town on the Aragonese plains, its castle hill, cave wine cellars, and mud-brick collegiate church carrying layers of Roman, Moorish, and medieval history.

A city of Moorish castles, UNESCO-listed mudéjar towers, and Roman roots stretching back to the time of Augustus, standing in Zaragoza province as one of Aragón's most historically layered stops.

A town on the Ebro in Zaragoza province where a Gothic collegiate church holds one of the largest known fragments of the True Cross, and a hilltop castle of the Knights of St John once stood above a medieval city famous across Spain for its glassmakers.

A town on the Jalón river in Zaragoza province where Celtiberian foundations, a Muslim-built castle, and a grand baroque church mark out more than two thousand years of continuous occupation.

A fortified town on the Jiloca river in Zaragoza province, where a Muslim castle in rammed earth, three mudéjar churches, and a medieval watchtower survive from more than a thousand years of layered history.

A Jalón river town of Mudéjar towers, three castles, and Celtiberian roots deep enough to appear in the Roman road maps of Antonine — Ateca has been a crossroads of Aragón since long before Spain existed.

A medieval stronghold on the Jalón river in Zaragoza province, Ariza crowns its hilltop with a Moorish castle cited in the Cantar de Mío Cid and surrounds it with a Gothic church, a palace, and the layered memory of two kingdoms fighting over the same ground for centuries.

Birthplace of the controversial Pope Benedict XIII and seat of one of Aragón's great noble dynasties, Illueca rises above the Jalón valley with a castle-palace that spans mudéjar, Renaissance and baroque in a single building.

A village in Zaragoza province where a UNESCO-listed Gothic-Mudéjar church, built by the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, crowns the hilltop above a castle declared a site of cultural interest.

Belchite, in Zaragoza province, carries three thousand years of layered history — Celtiberian, Roman, Arab, and Aragonese — and its bombed-out old town stands today as one of Spain's most haunting and intact ruins.

Longares, in Zaragoza province, is defined by a hall church of three equal-height naves and a Mudéjar tower that predates it, rising together as a quiet landmark of Aragonese brick craftsmanship.

A small Aragonese town in Zaragoza province, Mesones de Isuela holds a castle and a parish church dedicated to the Assumption within its municipal boundaries.

A spa town on the Jalón river in Zaragoza province, where thermal springs used since Roman times flow beneath the ruins of a Muslim castle and a Mudéjar church tower.

A village in the Zaragoza hills where a collegiate church blends Romanesque, Mudéjar, and Renaissance in a single building, and the ruins of an old castle watch over the surrounding countryside.