Main Sights
Jaca is home to medieval walls and towers surrounding an 11th century Romanesque cathedral.
The citadel, a fortification dating to the late 16th century, is home to a colony of Rock Sparrows.
The Diocesan Museum of Jaca (Museum of Medieval Sacred Art) protects Romanesque and Gothic frescoes from some of the most remote locations in the district of Jaca, unsuspected until the first one was discovered in the Church of Urriés, in 1962, where it had been hidden and protected by the painted and gilded retable, or altarpiece.
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