Jaca 947512 207762143 2008-04-24T02:36:23Z Rei-bot 3258344 robot Modifying: [[gl:Jaca]] {{dablink|Jaca is also another name for the [[jackfruit]].}} [[Image:Jaca from rapitan.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Jaca as is viewed from the Rapitan fort.]] '''Jaca''' (''Chaca'' in [[Aragonese]]) is a [[city]] of northeastern [[Spain]] near the border with [[France]], in the midst of the [[Pyrenees]] in the province of [[Huesca (province)|Huesca]]. Jaca, a ford on the [[Aragón River]] at the crossing of two great early medieval routes, one from [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] to [[Zaragoza]], was the fortified city out of which the [[County of Aragon|County]] and [[Kingdom of Aragon]] developed: Jaca was the capital of Aragon until [[1097]] and also served as capital of [[Jacetania]]. Jaca had, in 2004, 12,322 residents and is a premier [[tourism|tourist]] destination in the region for [[summer]] holidays and [[winter sport]]. Jaca was the host city of the [[1981]] and [[1995]] Winter [[Universiade]]s. Its popularity for winter sports has been a motivating factor in the city's failed bids for the [[1998 Winter Olympics]],[[2002 Winter Olympics]] and [[2010 Winter Olympics]]. It was again the applicant city of [[Spain]] for the [[2014 Winter Olympics]], but the bid failed again when it was not selected as a candidate city. [[Image:Jaca2014.png|left|thumb|Jaca 2014 bid logo]] Jaca, an episcopal see in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] since [[1063]] [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/djacs.htm], is home to [[medieval]] walls and towers surrounding an [[11th century]] [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] [[cathedral]]. The origins of the city are obscure, but its name apparently reflects the Iaccetani, mentioned by [[Strabo]] as one of the most celebrated of the numerous small tribes inhabiting the basin of the [[Ebro]]. Strabo adds that their territory was the scene of the wars in the 1st century B.C.E between [[Sertorius]] and [[Pompey]]. The Moorish writers mention ''Dyaka'' as one of the chief places in the province of Sarkosta (Zaragoza). When it was [[Reconquista|reconquered]] is unknown. [[Ramiro I of Aragon]] (1035 - 1063), gave it the title of " city," and in 1063 held within its walls a council, in which, the people were called in to sanction its decrees: an early milestone in the parliamentary traditions in the Pyrenees. The mutiny of the garrison at Jaca, demanding the abolition of monarchy and a democratic republic, [[December 12]]–[[December 13|13]], [[1930]], was suppressed with some difficulty. It was an early event that prestaged the [[Spanish Civil War]]. The Diocesan Museum of Jaca (Museum of Medieval Sacred Art) protects Romanesque and Gothic frescoes from some of the most remote locations in the district of Jaca, unsuspected until the first one was discovered in the Church of Urriés, in 1962, where it had been hidden and protected by the painted and gilded retable, or altarpiece. The Jaca citadel is home to a colony of [[Rock Sparrow]]s. ==See also== * [[Diocese of Jaca]] ==External links== *[http://www.valledelaragon.com/ingles/turismo/museodiocesano/default.asp Diocesan Museum of Jaca] *[http://www.jaca2014.es Homepage of the Jaca 2014 bid] *[http://jaca.costasur.com/en/index.html Jaca: Useful information about tourism and lodgings] {{commonscat|Jaca}} {{s-start}} {{s-bef|before=[[Canfranc]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[The Aragonese Way]] of the [[Way of St. James]]}} {{s-aft|after=[[Santa Cruz de la Serós]]}} {{end}} {{coor title dm|42|34|N|0|33|W|region:ES_type:city}} [[Category:Municipalities in Huesca]] [[Category:The Aragonese Way]] [[Category:Pyrenees]] [[an:Chaca]] [[bg:Хака]] [[ca:Jaca]] [[da:Jaca]] [[de:Jaca]] [[es:Jaca]] [[eu:Jaka]] [[fr:Jaca]] [[gl:Jaca]] [[it:Jaca]] [[nl:Jaca]] [[ja:ハカ (スペイン)]] [[oc:Jaca]] [[pl:Jaca]] [[pt:Jaca (Espanha)]] [[ro:Jaca]] [[ru:Хака]] [[fi:Jaca]]