ValladolidCastilla y León
Industrial and government city on the meseta castellana (“purest” Castilian accent) c. 450: Roman town 711 – 900 century: Moslem / Arab speaking 1346: Universidad de Valladolid 1506: Columbus’ last residence Before 1563: capital of Spain : home of Cervantes 1978: capital of Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-León 2003: pop. 320,000
Valladolid’s old city center (casco antiguo)
Calle Platerías (S. Pedro Regalado, city’s patron saint, born 1390 here) Plaza del Ochavo (where D. Alvaro de Luna’s head was hung in 1453) Iglesia de la Vera Cruz
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (1580 to 18 th century: classical style with façade by Churriguera; potentially the second largest cathedral in the world)
Colegio Mayor de Santa Cruz: University of Valladolid 15 th century Gothic; then Renaissance; then Neoclassical styles
Colegio de San Gregorio (first: Dominican theology school) Museo Nacional de Escultura (Gregorio Fernández; Berruguete; Juni) Façade: plateresco style by Gil de Siloé (late 15 th century)
Iglesia de San Pablo Founded by Alfonso X el Sabio’s wife, doña Violante (late 13 th century); remodeled by Cardinal Torquemada in plateresque style (late 15 th century)
Iglesia de Santa María de la Antigua 11 th century: founded by Conde Ansúrez, city’s founder; 13 th centure Romanesque tower; 14 th century Gothic additions
Iglesia y monasterio de San Benito; 14 th century; 2003: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español
Convento de Santa Teresa de Jesús (Carmelitas Descalzas) 16 th century
La Universidad de Valladolid (1346); major secular Spanish University; Baroque façade; Sapientia aedificavit sibi domun
Cervantes’ house 15 th century
José de Zorrilla’s house of birth (18 th century) Author of Don Juan Tenorio (1844)