AT#1005 - Zaragoza and Aragon, Spain

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Society & Culture, History, Places & Travel

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode of Amateur Traveler, host Chris Christensen talks about his press trip through Aragon, Spain, joined by fellow travelers Kevin Revolinski and Cathy Bennett Kopf. Aragon sits in northeastern Spain, west of Catalonia, and stretches from Zaragoza north to the Pyrenees and the French border. Why Visit Aragon? Aragon offers Roman ruins, Mudéjar architecture, cathedrals, castles, abbeys, Garnacha wine, medieval villages, mountain scenery, and outdoor adventure, without the crowds of Spain’s better-known cities. ... https://amateurtraveler.com/zaragoza-and-aragon-spain/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6	Amateur Traveler, Episode 1005.
0:54.0	Today, Amateur Traveler talks about cathedrals, castles, and
0:58.2	canyaneering, garancha and gastronomy, a palace and the Pyrenees as we go to the region of Aragon in Spain.
1:07.9	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Travel traveler. Let's talk about Aragon.
1:14.2	This is another episode about my travels. I'll be joined later on by two of my traveling
1:19.3	companions. I was on a press trip in Aragon in Spain. You may say, Chris, you were just in
1:26.0	Spain, and that is true.
1:30.8	I actually went on two press trips in Spain this year.
1:34.7	Patricia from the tourism office wanted to have me back this year.
1:43.0	And when she asked me what region I was interested in going to, one of the places I said is I was interested in getting to the city of Zaragoza.
1:46.0	We did an episode on Zaragoza a while back on Amateur Traveler, Episode 784. And that one really resonated with me, so I've been wanting to get there
1:52.9	since then. As we started talking about it, she said, would I also be interested in heading up to one of
1:57.7	the National Parks, which is in the Pyrenees? This is the National Park Parque Nacional de Ordese and Monte Perdido.
2:05.8	It looked pretty.
2:06.8	I said yes.
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