Guided tour text: Modernism in Jaca

Modernism in Jaca

This style was born in Belgium in the early XXth century.

Some characteristics of Art Modernism are:

• Decorative art
• Inspiration in nature with vegetables(plant) and flower shapes
• And inspiration in other cultures too

In Jaca you can find different buildings of this style. There is a modernism route, and we can see from this place a several modernist buildings like:

• Casa Rubio ( Pilgrim´s Bar)
• Casa Valero
• more in the Calle Mayor

Guided tour text - Ciudadela and Rapitan Fort

From this place, we can see two of the most important monuments in Jaca, the Ciudadela and the Rapitan fort.
The Ciudadela or Saint Peter's Castle was built in XVIth Century and it's a pentagonal construction with defensive walls. As you can see it's a very singular and wonderful construction.
Now it's a symbol of the city of Jaca. You will see it another day.
Look at the mountain over there, it's the Rapitan Fort, a military building located at the entrance to the Aragon valley, this element made it defensively very important.It was started in 1884 and finished at the begining of the twentieth Century .
From this point you can see this mountain, it is called Collarada and itś 2886 metres above the sea level.

Presentation about the Cathedral in a guided tour

We are in front of one of the most important monument in the city: the Cathedral . It was the first romanesque cathedral in Spain.

It is dedicated to Saint Peter.

It was begun on the orders of Ramiro I. However the work started in 1076 during the reign of his son Sancho Ramírez.
Here, (there was) near the Lonja Chica  was the market in the Middle Ages, among other things people come here to buy textiles. The salesmen took the measure on that column, we can see the measure there. Can you see it? It is the mark on the right column.

Now look at the decoration,

what does it remind you of?

The clock tower

It is in the "Marques de la Cadena" Square, near to the Santiago church. There is modern sculpture in bronze of Ramiro I of Aragon (1035-1064). It is a civil Gothic building, officially the Clock Tower populary the Jail Tower from 1602.

It is a sample of the civil Gothic and it was contructed around 1445 as a private residence, in the same place where the palace of the Aragonese monarch was.

(Nowadays it is) Until recently it was the seat of the Work Community of the Pyrenees. The conference rooms and office are distributed over four floors and the vaulted basement of the restored tower.