Wonderful Huesca, Spain by da-AL

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Huesca Cathedral.

After a weekend in Barcelona, my husband and I rented a car. I love Spain (hence, my upcoming novel is called, “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat”) so we had much to admire along the way to French Basque country.

Detail of Huesca Cathedral.

We stopped for lunch in Spain’s lovely city of Huesca. Their beautiful cathedral is in the historic district. Built on the remains of a mosque, it took 300 years to complete in the early 16th century.

Nestled in nearby ancient buildings are two restaurants. One is authentic Korean! As much as we love our kimchi, we decided that instead it was a lovely day for a modest yet elegant meal of traditional Spanish food on a pretty outdoor patio.

Huesca, Spain, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Huesca according to Wikipedia… is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almost a quarter of the total population of the province. The city is one of the smallest provincial capitals in Spain.

Wall art across the street from Huesca Cathedral. Buster Keaton — or Jude Law?

Wall art and graffiti abound e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e in Spain! Here in the U.S., graffiti is seldom as welcome.

Our vacation had started in beautiful Barcelona.

Now that we’d enjoyed wonderful Huesca, we were off to France. There we’d see pretty Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, enchanting Espelette, and phenomenal French Basque Country (Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Bayonne, and Biarritz).

Then, back in Spain, we’d marvel at the food and seaside dogs of San Sebastián, Spain and breathtaking Bilbao…

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45 thoughts on “Wonderful Huesca, Spain by da-AL”

  1. What an eclectic mix of ancient and modern. A mosque that took 300years to build , kimchi and an yves st Laurent clad Buster Keaton piece of wall art. Aragon is now on my list. Thank you for the post.

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    2. Louis, have you considered adding google translate widget to you site? that way so many more people could appreciate it — free to all of us wordpress users & easy to install

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          1. En dessous des 10 premiers articles, il y a un bandeau gris “Articles précédents”,

            En dessous de ce bandeau, il y a 3 colonnes.

            Le .” Widget google translate” est dans la première colonne tout en bas à gauche. Ok !

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    1. it was interesting to find that graffiti means something different in contries other than U.S. I’m with you, but that prob has a lot to do with our culture. It was all over Spain & no one seemed to take offense, even the stuff that looks like tagging. Finally I asked someone if it makes them scared & they said not at all, which got me to thinking about how our graffiti is different…

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          1. Don’t know. I know there are people who live during wintertime in Spain and the other part of the year here. But like on holidays, if we gonna move (and that’s a big if) it will be in a village among Spanish people.
            I do know that many people from the UK emigrated in the past to Spain. Not sure, if that’s still the case.

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