Best Traditional Spanish Aragon, Zaragoza, Mudéjar UNESCO 1986/2001, Ordesa Pyrenees, Albarracín, Loarre Castle and Aragon Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Spain travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Spanish Aragon, Zaragoza, Mudéjar UNESCO 1986/2001, Ordesa Pyrenees, Albarracín, Loarre Castle and Aragon Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Aragon - 1.3 million people across 47,720 km² of north-eastern Spain bordering France along the Pyrenees - packs more layered heritage per square kilometre than almost any other Spanish region. The medieval Crown of Aragon ruled the western Mediterranean from here, and four of its towns share a UNESCO inscription for Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon , originally listed in 1986 and extended in 2001 to cover Teruel Cathedral and three further sites. Major destinations: Zaragoza (capital, fifth-largest Spanish city), the Mudéjar UNESCO ensemble (12th-17th-century Christian-Islamic fusion brickwork), Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park (UNESCO 1997, transboundary with France), the pink-stone hilltown of Albarracín , and the 11th-century Romanesque military castle of Lo...