Biketour Los Sitios of Zaragoza

On 15 June 1808, the Napoleonic army appeared at the gates of Saragossa. General Lefebvre had more than 6,000 soldiers to take an important but poorly defended city. The city surprisingly resisted the attacks and began a stubborn fight, street by street and house by house, in which the local population resisted for four months against the best army in the world. Between 1808 and 1809 Zaragoza was bombarded day and night, heroically resisting the invaders. Finally, after having faced more than 40,000 French soldiers, the exhausted and semi-ruined city of Zaragoza signed an honourable surrender. 

The echoes of this feat still linger in the streets of Saragossa. Its people, names and places that witnessed a battle without quarter with tens of thousands of dead behind them will be the protagonists more than two hundred years later. 

Join us to travel through all these stories and spaces again! We will be transported on electric bicycles around the entire defensive perimeter of Zaragoza, crossing the front line to learn in situ about the stories of heroism and sacrifice that marked this crucial period in the history of Zaragoza and Spain.

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