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Visit Zaragoza - home to the Spanish Football Federation and top-level league, La Liga pro football team - Real Zaragoza! Exciting Zaragoza’s top attractions include Basílica del Pilar, Palacio de la Aljafería, Catedral de la Seo, Museo Pablo Gargallo and Parque Primo de Rivera. Zaragoza is Spain's fifth largest city and a dynamic city of trade, fairs and conferences, Goya's and great regional cuisine. Zaragoza lies halfway between Madrid and Barcelona - a bustling, prosperous, commercial city of wide boulevards and arcades. Zaragoza two cathedrals and, like Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, was a major pilgrimage center. According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to St. James, patron saint of Spain, on the banks of the Ebro River and ordered him to build a church there. Zaragoza is at the center of a rich huerta, or plain. The 40,000 students at the University of Zaragoza have livened up this once-staid city. Cafes, theaters, restaurants, music bars, and tascas have boomed in recent years, and more monuments have been restored and opened to the public.