Pyrenees Guide

The extraordinarily beautiful facade, carved in 1512 by Gil Morlanes the elder, and finished by his son is the only part of the previous enormous monastery which remains; during the Peninsula War the rest of it was destroyed. The facade is Plateresque in style with figures such as the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel.

In the crypt are two paleo-Christian sarcophagi (4th century) and some relicaries that contain the mortal remains of Zaragozan martyrs, Santa Engracia among others, who was martyred during Valerian's (258) or Diocletian's (303) persecutions. The Christian poet Prudentius (5th century) praised Zaragoza in his poems because of its martyrs, in particular Engracia.