Cathedral of St Peter

The Cathedral of St Peter the Apostle is a Roman Catholic church situated in Jaca, in Aragon, Spain. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaca. It is the main Romanesque house of prayer worked in Aragon and one of the most seasoned in the Iberian promontory. Its present appearance is the aftereffect of later augmentations and alterations presented particularly in the early current time frame. The house of prayer was raised on direction of King Sancho Ramirez, who, in the wake of remodeling in Rome his vassal oath to the Pope Alexander II 1068, had gotten from the last the privilege to set up the episcopal seat in Jaca, at that point capital of the Kingdom of Aragon.

The house of God has a by and large Romanesque structure, albeit a few components are in Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles. The last additionally coordinated the development of the Chapel, which is considered among the best instances of the Renaissance-Plateresque engineering in Aragon. The altarpiece of the high sacred place was done in the mid 17^th century. The enhancement of the focal apse was painted by Manuel Bayeu, brother by marriage of Francisco Goya, in 1792-1793.