The Provincial Museum of Zaragoza. Information about Aragon. Spain

The Provincial Museum of Zaragoza. Aragon, as it is. Spain

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The Museum is divided into several museographic sections.

ARCHEOLOGY

It is located in the plaza building of Los Sitios number 6 and the funds exhibited by the museum in its rooms on the ground floor help us to understand what has been the cultural evolution of the people who in remote times lived in this territory that we now call Aragon.

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Pieces corresponding to different cultures are exhibited from the Paleolithic to the Arab world.

There are educational visits with worksheets for the following sections:

  • Prehistory
  • Pre-Roman culture
  • Caesaraugusta
  • The romanization of Aragon.
FINE ARTS

This section is located on the upper floors. A visit to the Fine Arts section can satisfy us aesthetically contemplating some works of great beauty and quality.
 They stand out for their interest the complete collection of Gothic painting and the extraordinary portraits that Goya made in 1814 to King Ferdinand VII and the Duke of San Carlos.

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Collect collections of painting, sculpture and numismatics, all from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.

ETHNOLOGY

The ethnology section is located in the Primo de Rivera Park in the "Casa Pirenaica", building whose structure is a sample of the traditional architecture of the Aragonese Pyrenees, collecting varied elements of its valleys.

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It shows popular costumes and various utensils related to the domestic life of Aragon 100 years ago.

CERAMICS

The Ceramic Section has restructured the internal space of the "Casa de Albarracin", located in the Primo de Rivera Park, in order to have three large rooms where the ceramic backgrounds of the Museum of Zaragoza can be exhibited.

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The funds of this new section show the stylistic and functional evolution of ceramics, as well as a varied repertoire of popular Aragonese potteries.

The CELSA COLONY

It is located in the Zaragoza municipality of Velilla de Ebro, 55 km from the capital on the Castellón road.
It exposes in a monographic way the materials recovered in the excavations of the Colonia Victrix Iulia Celsa. A few meters from the site.

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Ample your information on Aragon

If you want to extend your information on Aragon you can begin crossing another interesting route is the Mudejar, Patrimony of the Humanity, also you can extend your cultural knowledge on Aragon examining its municipal and institutional heraldry without forgetting, of course, some of its emblematics figures as Saint George Pattern of Aragon also book of Aragon.

Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiario that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces: Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca and his shines, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa, the Moncayo or by opposition the Ebro.

Also you can dedicarte to the intangible ones: from the legend compilation that also does to universal Aragon you can persecute the presence of del Santo Grial in Aragon.



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