Valladolid

Valladolid (Spanish pronunciation: [baʎaðolið]) is located in the capital of Valladolid.It County at the confluence of the rivers and Bisoerga Esgueva,

And within five regions winegrowing: Ribera del Duero, Rueda, Toro, Tierra de Leon and Sajalas.

And linked its name to the 8th century Muslim Caliph Walid I, who ruled the Islamic empire between (668-715)

Which included "Valladolid." It has a population of 311 501 inhabitants, making it the 13TH Municipality Spain in terms of population

And greater city.Its northwest of the capital region of Spain occupies ranked 20 in Spain, which has a population of 413 605 inhabitants in the municipality of 23 (National Institute of Statistics, 2011).

Valladolid was originally settled in prehistoric Romania by the people of Celtic Vaccaei, and after the Romans themselves.

A small settlement remained until re-established by King Alfonso VI, king of Castile as the Lordship's number Pedro Ansúrez in 1072.

Grew to prominence in the Middle Ages on behalf of the court of Castile and the headquarters of being endowed with exhibitions and various institutions collectively as a church, the University (1241),

The Royal Court and the embassy and the Casa de la Moneda [clarification needed]. Catholic Monarchs, Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon,

He married in Valladolid in 1469 and established as the capital of the Kingdom of Castile well in later unified Spain. Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid in 1506,

While the book is Francisco de Quevedo and Miguel de Cervantes lived and worked in the city. He was also a cultural center in the Spanish Renaissance,

Although fire in 1561 forced Philip II's transfer to the capital, Madrid. Returned briefly to Valladolid under Philip III between 1601 and 1606,

Before returning to indefinitely to Madrid. And then fell in the city until the arrival of the railway in the 19th century, and with manufacturing's, already in the 20th century.

Old town Valladolid and maintains a group of historic houses and palaces, churches and fields, and ways and parks,

Along with the Heritage Museum which features the National Museum of Sculpture, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Patio Herreriano or Oriental Museum,

As well as featuring Jose Zorala Museum and Cervantes. Among the events that take place each year in the city include the Holy Week in Valladolid,

International Film Week Valladolid (Seminci), or theater arts street festival (TAC),

Was Vaccaei Celtic tribe, and the first people with a stability of the sector from the central valley of the River Duero documented in historical times.

Were excavated remains of Celtiberian and Roman camp near the city. The nucleus of the city was originally located in the San Miguel area of the square y u Rosarillo current,

And was surrounded by a wall. Was found on archaeological evidence of the existence of three lines of ancient walls.

During the period of Moorish rule in Spain moved the Christian kings of the inhabitants of this region in the north to areas more easily defended,

And deliberately creating the Sacred as a buffer against further Moorish conquests. Was arrested on the region of the Moors in the 10th century,

And was Valladolid village until King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile donated by a number of Pedro Ansúrez in 1072. He built the Palace (now lost) for himself and his wife Countess Eylo,

And a mass of St. Mary's church and not Antigua. In the 12th centuries and 13th, Valladolid grew quickly,

And thanks also to the trade concessions granted by kings Alfonso VIII and Alfonso X, as well as the reconstruction of the region's recovery after.

In 1469 she was married to Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon in the city,

By the 15th century it was Valladolid residence of the kings of Castile and remained the capital of the Kingdom of Spain until 1561,

When the city was destroyed by fire and Philip II, was born here, moved to the capital, Madrid,

Starting from the period of decadence for Valladolid. In 1506, Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid in the house which is now a museum dedicated to him.

And made it the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by Philip III. Damage was caused to the city again by overflowing rivers and Bisoerga Esgueva.

Despite the damage to the ancient city of economic prosperity 1960s, and it still boasts a few architectural aspects of its former glory.

Some of the effects of the cathedral is not over, and the Plaza Mayor (main square), which was a model for that of Madrid, and the other main squares throughout the former Spanish Empire, and sculpture National Museum, next to St. Paul's Church, which includes the largest groups in Spain wooden statues of multiple colors

And the Faculty of Law at the University of Valladolid, which the interface is one of the few business alive by Narciso Tome,

The same artist who did transparente in Toledo Cathedral. Science Museum next to the river Bisoerga.

The house is located on the only surviving of Miguel de Cervantes also in Valladolid. Although unfinished,

Cathedral was designed by the newborn country by Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial.

State code