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Statue of Emperor Augustus, a copy of the famous Augustus of Prima Porta, preserved in the Museum Vatican in Rome. The original statue was found in 1863 in the mansion that took Livia to the death of Tiberius, close to the walls of Rome. |
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The Mercado Central Zaragoza or of Lanuza, was designed in 1985 by architect Felix Navarro Perez Aragon The building was built in iron structure has a functional and harmonious design and a rectangular . Felix Navarro had been in Paris and knew Les Halles, a work that certainly influenced the design of the central market. He planned a rectangular plan with three naves, widest and tallest plant. The entire structure rests on a basement that served as a warehouse and the exterior features an image of a socket. |
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materials used combine architectural stone and iron and glass. The show covers neoclassical elements (arched galleries, allegorical sculptural decoration of agriculture, hunting, fishing and transport, medallions, with closing of Orchard pinnacles) by forging grids. The capitals of the columns of iron have original forms, such as punnets, acanthus leaves, palms and fruit neoclassical cluster. |
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Caesaraugusta was surrounded by a wall with numerous towers, perhaps even 120. Its walls had a considerable thickness, which in many areas reached 7 m, with the outside of alabaster and limestone blocks, and within an extremely hard mortar (opus caementicium) . Its towers are semicircular or ultrasemicirculares and have a diameter of about 8 m, reaching 13 m. one of the flanking the west door |
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The Roman wall protecting a perimeter of 3 km and crossing the street Echegaray y Caballero, all the route of the Coso Avenue and Caesar Augustus. The city opened by four gates, situated at the end of its axis, the north at the mouth of Stone Bridge, the east near the church of the Madeleine, the south slightly east of the Theatre, the western end of Street Demonstration. These doors are called from the Middle Ages, the Angel of the North, Valencia, Toledo East and the West. And in the Muslim period were accessed to the south of the city by Cinegia door, into the popular Tube, something the West where access was Roman. PARISH CHURCH OF SAN PABLO APOSTOL |
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The church of San Pablo has been called the third largest cathedral in Zaragoza. It is located between the streets of San Blas and San Pablo in San Pablo neighborhood of this city and its first factory in Gothic-Mudejar style dating from the late thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth century. Since its initial state, has undergone successive expansions in the XV and XVI to meet the demographic needs of the district of San Pablo, whose population was steadily increasing. |
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church is a large-scale due to the many extensions that have shaped a complex and varied space. Initially consisted of a ship that housed chapels between buttresses and had a header polygonal. |
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In the fifteenth century added two ships perimeter of the plant, which became part of the tower, in principle attached to the foot of the primitive factory immersed inside the temple. However, the parish continued to make reforms and extensions to the twentieth century. |
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Very noticeable is the octagonal Moorish tower, which is one of the best examples of Mudejar tower of the city. It houses two concentric bodies between which lies a ladder and allows a panoramic view of Zaragoza. Inside is the main altar, by Damian Forment in the sixteenth century. In 1931 it was declared a national monument and in 2001 was included in the declaration of World Heritage Site by Unesco declared to the relevant milestones Aragonese Mudejar. |
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the Zuda Tower is located on Avenida Cesar Augusta Zaragoza city, provincial capital, along the stretch of best-preserved Roman walls |
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This building, the old Muslim governor's palace, was built by Abd ar-Rahman II in 918 building structures and elements of the wall. It was later expanded and ground that was very rich, although only is the tower that was probably renovated in the Mudejar style in the fourteenth century |
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