Spanish Omelette

The famous Spanish Omelette is made from potatoes and eggs. It can often contain onion, peppers or another greens.

The eggs are beaten and the potatoes are sliced and fried.

Then eggs and potatoes are mixed and put in the frying pan with a little oil.

When one side is cooked the omelette is turned over and the other side is cooked.

Then it is ready to serve!

Describe a dish: Spaghetti a la carbonara

Spaghetti is made from pasta and this dish is made with a special sauce. It consists of eggs, cream and pieces of bacon. If you want you can put cheese.

Gazpacho

This is a cold soup. It's made from tomato, peppers, onion, cucumber, garlic, olive oil, vinegar and salt.
It's a typical Spanish food in the summer.

Benedictines' Convent. First Part. The Nuns' Story.

On the left we can see the Benedictines' Convent. The story of these nuns is very interesting.

First they were at the Monasterio Viejo de San Juan de la Peña, they were living in the same place as the monks, obviously in different areas, but in fact they were really near.

(The) Saint Benito's Rule in 1024 forced the nuns to leave the Monastery so they moved to the village Santa Cruz de la Serós.

It was a good time for the Order. Doña Sancha, Urraca and Teresa went to live to the Monastery of Santa María because it was a calm place in a time of war and conflict.

Doña Sancha was a powerful woman, she was a very important piece of (the) Aragonese Hhistory.

In 1097 Doña Sancha died and she was buried in a pretty sarcophagus in Santa María Church.

In 1520 the nuns were moved to Jaca. The Order started its new life in this Convent.

When the Sarcophagus was moved to Jaca it was a very hard work. They spent three days for fifteen kilometres! It arrived here in November 1622. If you want you can see the Sarcophagus but before you must request permission from the nuns.

EATING IN (THE) JACETANIA: CASA GABY

My favoutite Restaurant in this area is "Casa Gaby" in Hecho. I like it because is a beautifull house with a litlle dinning room, where you can eat a variety of regional food. My daughter call it "the little dolls house", because really seems it.

Gaby is the owner, and she has won a lot of gastronomics prizes.

Torrijas

What´s are torrijas?
Torrijas are made from eggs, milk, bread, sugar, cinnanion stick and oil.

TORRIJAS


ingredients:


Eggs, 1l of the milk, bread, oil, cinnanion stick, sugar.





Method:


1-Slice the bread.


2-boil the milk with cinnamon stick and sugar.


3-Soak the bread with milk.


4-Drain break.


5-Coat bread in the eggs.


6-Fry the bread in oil.


7- Coat bread in sugar and cinnamon.

My favorite restaurant is the Polifemo pizzeria. The owner is very nice.

The pizzeria is very good. The dough of the pizzas is thin with cheerse, tomatoes...The salads are very complete with lettuce, peppers, onions, carrot, tomato peppers, eggs,...The dessert is very good. It is with biscuits, cream and coconut.

Eating in the Jacetania: Borda Chiquín

Sally asked me about the restautants in this area so I told her that my favourite restaurant in this area is Borda Chiquín.

It's situated near Ansó. If you want to eat there maybe you have to reserve because usually it's full, above all in the summer.

The restaurant is between mountains and big trees so eating on the terrace is fantastic.

Normally most people eat migas for the first dish and lamb for the second dish.  (maybe course rather than dish)

To finish the dinner you can eat a dessert for example fruit or yoghurt and of course throughout all the dinner most people drink red wine. Be careful with the road when you return home, it's very winding!

" El Pajar "

"El Pajar " ( or "The Barn " in English) is a little restaurant placed in the historical center of Jaca. They make traditional recipes like lamb and other roasted meats.
A typical menu of this restaurant could be : Aragonese salad with lettuce, tomato, olives and asparagus; roast leg of lamb with potatoes and for the dessert homemade cheesecake. All this accompanied by a good wine from the Somontano of Huesca.
This restaurant has a good quality-price ratio.

ART MODERNISM IN JACA (Modernism or modernist art)

This sytle was born Belgium in XX century. About this new art
is important the inspiration of nature and the use glass and iron x .

This art is used in buildings, furniture and in other art forms (picture, sculture...).

But this style is expensive (art.)

CARACTERISTICS OF (ART) MODERNISM

• Decorative art
• Inspiration in nature with vegetables and flowers shapes
• Inspiration in other cultures
• In this style use of femenine shapes is normal

In Jaca you can find (with a) different buildings of this style. There is a modernism route, we can begin in Casa Borau, situated in Avda. del primer Viernes de Mayo.

One of most important building is in this avenue, is Casa Valero, that it is inpiration in the style neobarroque.

In the calle Mayor, the house numbre 17 has decorative neogothic, number 20, there is a pharmacy where there is modernist furniture.

In the same street you can also see an original decorative building where we are moved to another andalucí art, like La Alhambra in Granada, beside there is another building with original shapes, this house belongs to the Abad family, the decorative is inspired in nature.

Author :Ruth Pino Blanco

RAPITAN FORT

Together with the Citadel, Rapitan fort is one of the (important) defensive works protecting the city of Jaca. It was started in 1884 and finished in 1904.The defensive importance of Rapitan fort lies in the fact that it is located strategically at the entrance to the Aragon valley and at the summit of a small mountain. These two elements making it defensively very important, but also making its construction very difficult, using a huge number of workers. It was used as a prison after the uprising in 1930. It was constructed at a time when there were numerous other defensive construccions in the Pyrenees.

Saint Peter's Castle

The Ciudadela or Saint Peter's Castle was build in 1595 by order of Felipe II.
It's a pentagonal construction with defensive walls, with each corner connected by circular paths. It was constructed for the threat of the invasion by French heretics.
It was based on plans created by Tiburcio Spanochi and finished in the 18th century.
Its interior is accessed by a mannerist gate bearing the shield of the Austrias, currently a symbol of the city of Jaca. Along with Liege (Belgium) this is the only complete pentagonal example.
It was declared an artistic monument in 1951 and restored in 1968.Also a winner of the Premio Europa.(prize)
There's a Miniatures Museum (museum of miniatures) inside the castle. This is a little text about its history...
"The origins of this Museum are rooted in the collection of lead figurines which were gathered from the sixties onwards by Carlos Royo-Villanova, a miniatures fan and history lover. The little lead soldiers and their accessories, all to the same scale, (1:87, or some 20 mm in height), were mostly produced by Valencia-based company Alymer, which sold the figurines under the Miniploms name.(name of) Armies from (all over) the world were formed with excitement and lots of patience, with more than 35.000 pieces covering many periods of history. The collection was acquired by Jaca Council in 1984 and displayed in the Fuerte Rapitán.
In 2001, it was proposed that the collection be moved to the Castle of San Pedro, better known as the Citadel, with an agreement signed between Jaca Council (owner of the collection) and the Army (owner of the facilities), which created the new Military Miniatures Museum. The following year the Ministry of Defence authorised that one of the fortified rooms of the Castle, a space of almost 700 square metres, could be used as a museum.
The month of August 2003 saw work commence on creating the new museum, with the start of a modern museographic and artistic project. The restoration, inventory and cleaning of all the pieces also began, as well as the creation of the backdrops and dioramas. Led by a professional team of technicians, a group of volunteers from Jaca efficiently worked together on the restoration of the figurines. The project was rounded off with the design and production of the technical aspects and complementary services."