Architectural description
Zaragoza
The city has more than two thousand years of history. On the Iberian settlement of Salduie it was founded approximately in 14 a. C.,1 a Roman colony, Caesaraugusta, in honor of Caesar Augustus. After a frank decline in the 3rd and 4th centuries after Christ, the city continued to maintain its influence with the Visigothic domination, being an outstanding episcopal center.
The arrival of Islam produced a new period of splendor materialized in the Taifa of Saraqusta, an independent kingdom that in the second half of the 11th century brought Andalusian civilization to one of its highest levels in philosophy and architecture.
After the conquest of the city by Alfonso I the Battler in 1118, it would become the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon, and it was also the seat where the kings of the Crown of Aragon were crowned. Successive transformations in the late Middle Ages and the Modern Age had an unfortunate end in the Siege of Zaragoza in 1808, with the virtual destruction of the city and the subsequent demographic catastrophe.
