# Jaca

Jaca is known as ‘the pearl of the Pyrenees’. It is a European and cosmopolitan city, an essential stop on the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago de Compostela.
In Jaca it is essential to visit the Citadel, an example of 16th-century military architecture and declared a Historic-Artistic Monument. Its construction began in 1592, it has a pentagonal ground plan of grandiose dimensions, with a moat, and is built on flat ground.
There are other very important buildings, such as its Romanesque Cathedral (11th century), declared a National Monument, the Benedictine Monastery, the Church of Santiago, the Hermitage of Sarsa, the Bridge of San Miguel, the Clock Tower (15th century) and the Town Hall.

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