Over the years, Huesca has gathered together a valuable artistic heritage, part of which is kept and cared for in this museum. The building is of great interest, as it occupies part of the former palace of the Kings of Aragón, with a chapel (the doña Petronila room), and the hall where the event of the Bell of Huesca took place.

This is situated in the heart of the old town on top of a hill. It was built in the gothic style by Jaime I at the end of the 13th century, and building continued to the 16th century.

Situated in the Plaza de San Lorenzo, the church was built between 1608-1723. The façade is attributed to Miguel Requondo and José Sofí (18th century).

The outer wall and the only fortified tower to remain standing from the ninety built originally are the best preserved part of the mediaeval wall. These important remains and those excavated opposite the convent of San Miguel -Islamic- present a fairly faithful idea of what Huesca looked like in those times.

The church of San Pedro El Viejo is found in the city's old town. According to archaeologists, it was originally a Roman temple, which later became Visigothic, then Mozarab and, finally, Romanesque.

This dates from the beginning of the 20th century and has pleasant walks and wooded areas. A feature is the monument to the origami birds. It is complemented by the street running alongside where there are houses in the Rationalist style, a movement that was quite important in the city.

The main festival in Huesca is held every year from 9 to 15 August, in honour of the martyr St Laurence, who was said to have been born in the city. The festival has been declared of national interest for tourism, and starts on the morning of 9th August.

This is one of the most characteristic 20th-century buildings in Huesca, as, besides its architectural interest as an example of the Modernist style, it forms part of the first square to be built outside the walled town and joins the city to the train station. The interior decorations are perfectly preserved, as is the original layout of the rooms.

The Town Hall is a good example of a 16th-century Aragonese town administrative building, with towers at either end and a gallery protected by wide, wooden eaves. The inner courtyard contains a staircase with Plateresque and Baroque decorations. The well-known painting, The Bell of Huesca by Casado del Alisal in the romantic style, hangs in the judgement hall.

The church and convent together are of great artistic value and importance in the community, and consist of the 12th-century, Romanesque church and tower, the Gothic apse and the 17th-century building.

The Cinema Festival, held in June, with a core programme of short films, manages to attract more important films and people from the world of cinema every year. There is also the Aragón Theatre Fair in spring, where the top companies gather in Huesca for a week to present their shows to dozens of experts and managers and thousands of spectators.

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Center and Museum of Art and Nature, which hosts the Beaulas Foundation and part of his work focused on modern art.

All concerts are held at the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Maggiore Bolea.

The festival tries to present the most popular music from the past and present, containing the most traditional music of Spain, as well as a head-on meeting of western rhythms with those from other parts of the world.

A music festival with pop and Latin American music. It is held in Barbastro together with shows of Gastronomy and the Wines of Somontano, (trademark protected), among other items of interest.

Pirineos Sur (Southern Pyrenees) is a festival specialising in world music. This is an event that fuses the modern with the traditional, technology with ethnicity, time-honoured musicians with new values. In short, there is no room for dogmatism here.

An open-air electronic event held in the Monegros desert (Huesca).