The Hotel Reina Petronila is located within the Universo Aragonia, which is a project that includes office buildings, 4 apartment blocks, a large, six-storey, shopping and leisure centre, with a sixteen-screen cinema and 2,000 parking spaces. The hotel, which is both avant-garde and innovative in its design, is the work of the architect Rafael Moneo. It features traditional Aragonese materials, drawing its inspiration from Mudejar art, but brought up to date. It offers large spaces that are bathed in natural light thanks to its vast windows.
Its 185 rooms, which feature a wide range of suites, some of which even include a grand piano, have all been created so that the guest may enjoy a stay that is special, comfortable and unforgettable. This hotel is a destination that is soon to become a benchmark in the city of Zaragoza for its modernity and state-of-the-art architecture, its executive conference room and executive lounge, the Epicure area, featuring a large cigar cellar and top class selection of spirits.
Its exclusive restaurant, run by Andoni Luis Aduriz (who heads the Mugaritz restaurant in San Sebastian, holder of two Michelin stars), aims to consolidate itself as a reference point that will attract customers from all over the world by promoting the local Aragonese products and gastronomy.
The Reina Petronila Spa offers a vast range of treatments, thanks to its team of professionals who give their clients a personal service and which makes them feel totally revitalised. At the Universo Aragonia we can also enjoy ourselves in the huge sports centre, which features a modern gym, cutting edge sports facilities, open air courts and swimming pool on the upper deck.
Here, the Reina Petronila CompañĂa Real de Zaragoza offers what is its most sophisticated product, that of a business centre with the latest facilities, conference and meeting rooms of varying seating capacities and all the requisite services for a top level meeting.
The hotel Reina Petronila has a conference centre equipped with the latest technology and can seat 600 people. Furthermore, it has a meeting hall measuring 550 square metres that can stage events for up to 600 people, with a vast four-metre high window that lets in lots of natural light. It also has other function rooms with varying capacities for meetings or catering services.
• Auditorium: Conference centre equipped with the latest technology and capacity for 600 people • Banqueting Hall: Hall measuring 550 square metres and with a height of 4 metres and a huge window that lets in lots of natural light, all of which makes it possible to hold a reception for up to 600 people, a trade exhibition or a meeting that can be set up in a variety of ways. • Projection Room: Auditorium with capacity for 80 people
Getting there
Quick and easy access to the city’s ring roads, the airport, the intermodal station, the trade fair and the meandro de Ranillos, the venue for the 2008 Universal Exposition. It is just a few metres from the Zaragoza auditorium, the city’s main hospitals and the Romareda Football stadium.
Airport: 12 km
Center: 3,5 km
Trade Fair: 10,5 km
Train: 1,9 km
Bus: 300 m
Golf: 4,2 km
Destination information: Saragossa (Spain)
Saragossa, the city of the Ebro and the Virgin of El Pilar – LaPilarica – offers visitors a major architectural and artistic heritage: the legacy of the many civilisations that founded and shaped the capital of Aragon. Saragossa is one of the most important cities in the world when it comes to worshipping the Virgin, and this can be seen in the devout veneration of La Pilarica at the landmark BasĂlica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the city’s most important architectural ensemble and the symbol of the people of Saragossa and the Aragonese. The Roman walls that enclosed the ancient city of Saragossa for many centuries were 3 km long.
Visitors can also stop and marvel at the 11th-century palace and fortress of the AlfarerĂa in the El Portillo district, which is one of the most important buildings in the Western Islamic style from the era of the Taifas. La Seo, the foremost example of Saragossan Gothic style, is the local name for the Catedral del Salvador, a valuable architectural legacy consisting of a number of styles which have been superimposed throughout history. You can’t talk about Saragossa without mentioning tapas, fine wine and narrow streets… In short, a visit to the Aragonese capital wouldn’t be the same without stopping off at El Tubo, one of the most famous and popular areas in the city’s old quarter.
This maze of narrow streets is crammed with restaurants, bars, bookshops and cake shops. The meeting place for locals, particularly at night, its bars are the city’s temples to the art of the tapa. The Fiestas del Pilar, which have been declared a festival of National Tourist Interest, are Saragossa’s most important celebration. On 12th October, thousands of locals and visitors flock to worship La Pilarica.