Zaragoza holds the largest concentration of Goya's graphic work anywhere, a UNESCO-listed Mudéjar brick tradition unique to Aragon, and a contemporary scene running from Carme Pinós architecture to September mural festivals in the San Pablo barrio.
Fourteen rooms inside a 16th-century Renaissance palace on Calle Espoz y Mina hold all four of Goya's engraved series, including the 80 plates of Los Caprichos, alongside Aragonese painting from the 15th century onward.
The Palacio de Argillo, a 1659 Aragonese mansion on Plaza San Felipe, shows over 100 works by the sculptor who cut portrait heads from flat sheet metal, among them El Profeta and Gran Bailarina.
Aragon's contemporary art institute wrapped the sculptor's former studio on Paseo María Agustín in a perforated steel skin in 2011. Inside: 140 Pablo Serrano bronzes plus rotating Spanish video, photography and installation shows.
Called the third cathedral of Zaragoza, this UNESCO-listed Mudéjar church raises an octagonal brick minaret-tower over a 14th-century nave, sheltering the retablo mayor that Damián Forment carved between 1511 and 1517.
The neo-Renaissance pavilion raised on Plaza de los Sitios for the 1908 Hispano-French Exposition runs from Iberian bronzes and Caesaraugusta floor mosaics to an upstairs room of Goya canvases including Ferdinand VII.
A 1550 Renaissance courtyard, dismantled and shipped to Paris in the 19th century, then bought back and rebuilt inside Ibercaja's headquarters on Calle San Ignacio de Loyola, its columns carved with mythological reliefs.
Carme Pinós cantilevered two dark volumes above an open plaza near Delicias station in 2014. Two galleries take travelling exhibitions from the Prado, the Louvre and MoMA, with a 264-seat auditorium below.
Working since 1799 on Calle Coso, the horseshoe auditorium seats roughly 1,300 under a painted ceiling and programmes opera, zarzuela and Spanish-language drama across a September-to-June season.
A glass canopy roofs the excavated Roman theatre found in 1972 under a demolished block on Calle San Jorge. Walkways cross the 6,000-seat cavea while the museum reconstructs its 1st-century AD stage machinery.
Félix Navarro's 1903 iron-and-glass hall on Avenida César Augusto reopened in 2020 after a full restoration, with around 70 stalls selling ternasco lamb, Ebro-valley borage and Cariñena and Campo de Borja wines.
The converted San Agustín convent on Plaza San Agustín pairs the municipal history centre with EMOZ, the first museum anywhere devoted to origami, rotating around 100 folded pieces by Japanese and Spanish masters.
Zaragoza's oldest working-class quarter, known locally as El Gancho, keeps the large-format murals left by the Asalto urban art festival every September, concentrated along Calles Las Armas, Aguadores and San Blas.