Sobre este lugar
The Plaza de España is the vibrant civic crossroads of modern Zaragoza, the point where the medieval old town meets the elegant, tree-lined shopping boulevard of the Paseo de la Independencia. It is ringed by handsome buildings, including banks and the arcaded facades of the nineteenth-century avenue, and it buzzes with buses, shoppers and life. At its centre stands a monument to the Sieges of Zaragoza, commemorating one of the most heroic and terrible episodes in the city's history, when its people resisted two brutal sieges by Napoleon's army in 1808 and 1809. The square and the grand avenue leading from it represent the confident, bourgeois city of the nineteenth century, a fitting contrast to the Roman and medieval marvels nearby, and the natural place from which to explore the modern commercial heart of Zaragoza.
Datos clave
- 1808 year — A monument in the square honours the heroic sieges of Zaragoza against Napoleon's army
- 1 boulevard — The grand Paseo de la Independencia shopping avenue begins at the square
- 2 sieges — The city endured two devastating French sieges in 1808 and 1809
📍 Plaza de España 1, 50004, Zaragoza