Be Live Residence, located in the former Virgen Reina school at 9 La Paz Street in Zaragoza, will receive its operating license this Thursday from the City Council’s Urban Planning Department. The permit marks another step toward opening the student accommodation, whose launch has been delayed several months by renovation work.
Zaragoza City Council has begun analyzing Puente de Piedra with a drone equipped with laser technology and high-definition cameras to create a three-dimensional digital model of the entire structure. The aim is to accurately assess its condition and prepare a future rehabilitation, which initial municipal estimates put at around €750,000.
Mushrooms will once again take center stage in Cinco Villas with a new edition of its Mycology Days, offering activities to learn about the fungi found in the region’s forests. The program will begin this Saturday, October 24, in Navardún and run until December 6, with mountain outings, cooking workshops, exhibitions and tastings in different municipalities.
The 2026 Fiestas del Pilar have come to an end, but the fun continues at the Valdespartera fairgrounds, where rides, tombolas and food stalls will remain open until October 25. With the fair's final days ahead, Zaragoza is preparing for one of the most special events of this edition. For a few hours, rides will reduce their music, loud sounds and flashing lights so people with sensory sensitivities can also enjoy the fun in a calmer environment.
Zaragoza will end 2026 with more than 5,300 new trees, bringing it close to the planting record reached in 2023, when around 5,600 specimens were added. Mayor Natalia Chueca has announced a new goal for 2027: eliminating empty tree pits. According to municipal data, Zaragoza has more than 74,000 tree pits, around 2,600 of which are still without trees.
Zaragoza’s Stone Bridge will close to road and pedestrian traffic this Wednesday, October 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for drone surveys postponed in late September. Nearby areas will also be affected for safety reasons, and alternative routes are recommended for crossing the Ebro.
Zaragoza City Council is preparing to renovate the access doors of Casa de los Morlanes, one of the Old Town’s historic buildings, with a budget of nearly 40,000 euros. The project, put out to tender for 39,382.69 euros including VAT, aims to improve entry to the building and ensure safer evacuation in an emergency.
Zaragoza becomes the focus of international tourism from this Tuesday with the sixth Turespaña Convention, bringing together institutional representatives, tourism operators and destination marketing officials from different markets until Thursday, October 22. Held at the Congress Palace, the event aims to analyze the sector’s challenges and open up new opportunities to attract foreign visitors. The convention also gives the Aragonese capital a chance to raise its profile among professionals involved in marketing tourism destinations.
It is no secret that the Offering of Flowers to the Virgin of the Pillar inspires passion among Aragonese people, but it also moves those who visit Zaragoza during its biggest celebrations. One of them was Málaga-born actor Canco Rodríguez, widely known for playing Barajas in the television series Aída. During his stay in the Aragonese capital with his show Zabaret, he took part in one of the most moving and popular events of the Pilar Festival.
Zaragoza City Council will modify the European Elaborator pilot project from this Wednesday, October 21, after several weeks of analysis to improve road safety around schools in Romareda. The council and the Circe Foundation will adjust some initial measures and restore part of the previous layout on several streets, while maintaining specific measures to protect school access.
Zaragoza’s new downtown food district continues to take shape around Calle Azoque, where Berto’s Milanesa has opened its eighth restaurant with breaded meat as its star dish.
Tourism generated €4.107 billion in Aragón in 2025, accounting for 10.7% of the region’s GDP and supporting 67,500 jobs. Citing these figures, Environment and Tourism Minister Luis Biendicho defended the sector’s potential to boost local economies and keep rural towns alive at the opening of the 6th Turespaña Convention in Zaragoza, attended by nearly 600 national and international tourism professionals.
Just a few streets from El Pilar Square, Los Xarmientos Parrilla Aragonesa continues to establish itself as a leading restaurant for authentic Aragonese cuisine, built around local produce, homemade cooking and grilling.
The Fernando el Católico Institution of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza has published a book about Zaragoza’s former San Diego College and its connection to chef Juan Altamiras. The project aims to shed more light on his celebrated cookbook, “Nuevo arte de cocina,” published in 1745.
Zaragoza City Council has put out to tender a works contract to renew 16 drinking fountains at the Water Park. The project has a base budget of 48,399.99 euros, including VAT, and aims to replace the existing, outdated water points with new accessible and efficient models.
Zaragoza's new rules to control VTCs have resulted in more than 50 fines during the Fiestas del Pilar. Local Police issued 53 penalties between October 10 and 12 noon on Monday as part of measures to curb urban services operating without the required municipal authorization.
The Pilar Festival proclamation has its own musical traditions, but they do not appeal equally to all political groups on Zaragoza City Council. Vox wants “S'ha feito de nuey” to stop being played every year and is calling for other compositions from the Aragonese repertoire to be considered. Councillor David Flores raised the proposal at the Culture Committee, arguing that the variety of jota music deserves a more prominent role in one of the festival’s biggest events.
The night of October 31 is one of the most magical and mysterious of the year. Witches, monsters, ghosts and all kinds of terrifying creatures take to the streets to celebrate Halloween, the eve of All Saints’ Day, amid costumes, spells and the occasional scare. This year, one of Zaragoza’s most haunted spots will be Alagón, which is searching for the town’s most terrifying house through a Halloween decoration contest. The initiative invites residents to transform their homes into authentic horror movie sets.
Zaragoza aims to resolve two long-standing urban planning issues. The City Council will transform the Instalaza site in Tenerías and the former Convent of Jerusalem on paseo de Isabel la Católica to build up to 359 homes, open new roads and expand parking.
The death of a wild boar that roamed central Zaragoza early Saturday, during the Pilar Festivities, has prompted a response from Amnistía Animal. The organization has announced that it is taking action against the establishment on Temple Street where the animal ended up and against those involved in its death. It has also criticized Zaragoza City Council's handling of the case and called for an action protocol for future incursions by wildlife into the city.
