Spain
If you never had "Migas", this is the original place to be! Migas, an original Spanish dish are breadcrumbs fried with chorizo and olive oil etc. and is served with various toppings, including grapes. Another dish to try here is "Callos" but I will let you find out what it is. Accompanied by Vina Urbezo 2009 red wine which Luis the friendly proprietor – a former tax officer – will surely suggest, you are bound for a delicious traditional dinner in this family-run restaurant.
Calle de los Estébanes 4
+34 976200736
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Wonderful and well presented local tapas as you've never experienced it. Keep the secret well. Only for connoisseurs ... Opens at 8.30 pm, it's small and perhaps you'll have to queue up; difficult to find too.
C/ General Ricardos, 11
50013 Zaragoza, Espagne
+34 976 425 212
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Burlesque is back, as you never experienced it! A wonderful night out, surreal, fun and sexy; NOT sleazy!
C/. Cuatro de Agosto 23
The Melia in Zaragoza has always offered us a highly personalized service in a wonderful and luxurious hotel. The rooms (from €131 including breakfast) are spacious yet cosy and always comfortable and unpretentious. Its location is a great asset, enabling you to explore the delights of one of Spain’s less well-known gems.
Avenida Cesar Augusto, 13, 50004, Zaragoza
+ 34 976 430100
A walk across one of the city's central bridges - Puente de Piedra, Puente del Pilar, Puente de la Union - is rewarded with magnificent views of the Basilica del Pilar.
Any of the bridges off Paseo de Echegaray y Caballero.
The seat of Aragonese government is a beautiful eleventh-century Moorish palace surrounded by parkland. Although not as elaborate as the Moorish monuments of Andalucia, the mixture of architectural styles from different periods provide an interesting insight into the history of the region, from Moorish caliphate through Catholic kingdom to present-day regional autonomy. A relative lack of tourists, coupled with the sense of its continuity as a working seat of government, made this monument one of the most memorable of my time in Spain - a must for anyone interested in the history of the peninsula.
Calle Los Diputados (west of the city centre);
tel: 976 28 95 28
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