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The Old Coso, today Plaza del Viejo Coso or Plaza del Coso, was the first bullring of Valladolid, built in the nineteenth century. Until that date, bullfighting celebrations were held in the Plaza Mayor and surrounding areas to the door of the countryside or in the Plaza Vieja or San Pablo, in which wooden stands were placed for the spectators, imitating models such as the square of Peñafiel's Coso.
Plaza de la Universidad is one of the main squares in the city centre of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. Historically known as Plaza de Santa María, it was renamed at the beginning of the 20th century because it houses the façade of the university, now the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.
3. Cárcel de la Chancillería
The Chancery Prison of Valladolid is a building designed in classicist style by the architect Nicolás Bueno and carried out by Felipe Berrojo, Juan de Median Argüelles, Juan Tejedor Lozano, and Pedro de Biermo, during the years 1675 and 1679. It is located in the municipality of Valladolid, in the Province of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain, where the Reina Sofía Library is currently located. It is located in the centre of the city along with the Palacio de los Vivero, the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, the Church of San Pedro Apóstol and the Convent of the Descalzas Reales. It was the prison for prisoners whose cases were handled by the Tribunal of the Royal Audience. It was for years a prison in Valladolid until 1935, when what is now the "Esgueva" Civic Center was inaugurated.
4. Fuente Dorada
The Golden Fountain was a public fountain in the city of Valladolid, Spain. It was the eponym of the square that bears the same name located in a place near the Plaza Mayor: the Plaza de Fuente Dorada. It was built in 1618 under the direction of Diego de Praves, master architect of the City Council and was supplied by the Argales water flow. This fountain underwent many changes and remodeling over the centuries. Nothing remains of the primitive source, only some description such as the one given by Ventura Pérez in his Diario de Valladolid. The last structural change was in 1998 under the direction of the architect Fernando González Poncio; this architect not only planned the square but built a new fountain with the title of "Allegory of the Guilds".
5. Academia de Caballería
The Cavalry Weapon Academy is a Spanish military academy located in Valladolid. He settled in the city in 1852 in a building that a few years earlier had been intended to be used as a prison. When this original building caught fire, it was decided to build the current one, which began to be built in 1921 and inaugurated by the King and Queen of Spain in 1924. It is of great value, constituting an important legacy of historicist and monumental architecture of the first decades of the twentieth century. It is located in front of the Campo Grande Park and the Casa Mantilla, in the current Plaza Zorrilla and is, without a doubt, one of the most emblematic, representative and majestic buildings in Valladolid.
6. Arca Real 2
The work of hydraulic engineering built between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century to supply water to the Spanish city of Valladolid is known as the Argales Water Journey. From the end of the Middle Ages, the city strove to obtain a public water supply, through a system of fountains, which would make it possible to avoid changes in the flow of the Pisuerga River. This task, in which monarchs, the monks of the monastery of San Benito, the town hall and some families participated, bore fruit in the so-called water journeys, conduits to transport water from the springs to the urban fountains.
7. Fuente de los Colosos
Los Colossi is the name of a fountain in Valladolid, Spain; It is located in the Plaza de la Rinconada, approximately in the same space where its ancestor was, called the Rinconada fountain, of which there was not one stone left when it was completely dismantled when the square was remodeled at the end of the nineteenth century. The difference between one and the other is that La Rinconada was a public or neighborhood fountain while Los Colossi was born as a decorative fountain. It was built in 1996 by the architect Fernando González Poncio with sculptures by Pedro Monje.
8. Pasaje Gutiérrez
The Gutiérrez passage is a covered shopping arcade in the city of Valladolid inaugurated in 1886, located between Fray Luis de León and Castelar streets. This type of gallery arose in Paris as a result of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. They were conceived as passageways that served as communication between busy streets and intended to expand space for commerce. In Spain, the Gutiérrez passage, along with the Lodares de Albacete passage and the Ciclón de Zaragoza passage, are the only 3 remaining examples of this type of gallery.
9. Iglesia de San Andrés
The church of San Andrés de Valladolid is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Diocese of Valladolid. Located in the Plaza de San Andrés, near the commercial Calle Mantería, it is one of the largest churches in the city. It is the landmark of the neighborhood that surrounds it, San Andrés-Caño Argales, which takes the same name as the church. This church is home to the Royal Penitential Confraternity of the Most Holy Christ Stripped, Christ on the Way to Calvary and Our Lady of Bitterness.
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The Canal de Castilla is one of the most important hydraulic engineering works carried out between the mid-eighteenth century and the first third of the nineteenth century in Spain. It runs through part of the provinces of Burgos, Palencia and Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, and was built to facilitate the transport of wheat from Castile to the northern ports and from there to other markets. However, with the arrival of the railway, it became obsolete.
11. Sala de Exposiciones Iglesia de la Pasión
The Church of the Passion is a Catholic temple in the Churrigueresque Baroque style, its construction began in 1577, it was the first penitential church in Valladolid. It is currently an exhibition hall located in the centre of Valladolid. It was originally a church built to be the headquarters of the Penitential Confraternity of the Sacred Passion of Christ. The church was closed to religious worship in the 19th century. It was declared a National Monument on March 10, 1928.
12. Iglesia de San Pablo
The Iglesia conventual de San Pablo or San Pablo de Valladolid is a church and former convent, of Isabelline style, in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain. The church was commissioned by Cardinal Juan de Torquemada between 1445 and 1468. It was subsequently extended and refurbished until 1616. Kings Philip II and Philip IV of Spain were baptized in the church, and it was visited by Napoleon. It is one of the buildings considered most emblematic of the city.
13. Mercado del Val
The Mercado del Val is a market in Valladolid, Spain. It is an example of iron architecture. It stands in the Plaza del Val, next to the church of San Benito el Real. It is the oldest market preserved in the city, after the demolition of those of El Campillo and Portugalete, the three built during the mayoralty of Miguel Íscar Juárez. It is inspired by Les Halles in Paris, and was built between 1878 and 1882, with a project by the architect Joaquín Ruiz Sierra.
14. Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes
The Miguel Delibes Cultural Center is a cultural building located in Valladolid, Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, Spain. It was designed by the architect Ricardo Bofill Levi and inaugurated in March 2007 with a concert of the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, under the direction of the Colombo-Spanish Alejandro Posada. It is located in the Villa de Prado neighborhood between the José Zorrilla Stadium and the Cortes de Castilla y León.
15. Plaza de la Trinidad
The Plaza de la Trinidad is located northwest of the city of Valladolid (Spain), near the Pisuerga River. It belongs to the historic neighborhood of San Nicolás. The square is very wide and its southern flank is completely open to the street of San Quirce. It is home to three notable and important buildings in the history of Valladolid: the Palace of the Counts of Benavente, the Convent of San Quirce and the Church of San Nicolás.
16. Teatro Zorrilla
The Zorrilla Theatre in Valladolid, designed by the architect Joaquín Ruiz Sierra, is a theatre located in the Plaza Mayor in the same space where the former Convent of San Francisco was located. Its main façade is not individualized and is concealed, in the square, within the buildings uniformed by the color and architectural appearance of the house. Access is through the arcades and its rear façade faces Calle Constitución.
17. Museo de Escultura Colegio de San Gregorio
The Colegio de San Gregorio is an Isabelline style building located in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain, it was formerly a college and now is housing the Museo Nacional de Escultura museum. This building is one of the best examples of the architectural style known as Isabelline, which is the characteristic architectural style of the Crown of Castile region during the Catholic Monarchs' reign.
18. Museo de Escultura Iglesia de San Benito el Viejo
The Church of San Benito el Viejo was a church located in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain, constituting the chapel of the palace of the Count of Gondomar or Casa del Sol. In 2012 it was rehabilitated and deconsecrated to integrate, together with the palace, within the complex of the National Museum of Sculpture, bordering, being separated by a garden, with the school of San Gregorio, the main headquarters.
19. Casa Luelmo
Casa Luelmo is an eclectic-modernist building in Valladolid. Built at the beginning of the 20th century according to a design by the architect Antonio Ortiz de Urbina y Olasagasti, it was commissioned by the businessman Rufo Luelmo to be used as a family home in what was then the Minaya farm, a 45-hectare farm located on the outskirts of the city, intended for agricultural exploitation.
20. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias
The Penitential Church of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias is a church in Valladolid located in the center of the city in front of the Teatro Calderón and near the Church of Santa María La Antigua. The church is owned and headquarters of the Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, one of the oldest brotherhoods of Holy Week in Valladolid.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias (Valladolid) (ES)
21. Museo del Monasterio de San Joaquín y Santa Ana
The Museum of the Monastery of San Joaquín y Santa Ana is a museum of sacred art located in the church of the Royal Monastery of San Joaquín y Santa Ana in Valladolid, Spain. It includes valuable pieces of Spanish Baroque sculpture, while the church treasures three youthful canvases by Goya, the only paintings by the Aragonese painter preserved in Castilla y León.
Wikipedia: Museo del Monasterio de San Joaquín y Santa Ana (ES), Website
22. Palacio de los Escudero - Herrera
The Palacio de los Escudero-Herrera is a Renaissance building, built in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, located on Fray Luis de León Street in Valladolid, Spain. Since 1922 it has belonged to the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, as well as the Villagómez palace, acquired by the latter several years later and both being adjacent.
Wikipedia: Palacio de los Escudero-Herrera (Valladolid) (ES)
23. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Extramuros
The sanctuary of Nuestra Señora del Carmen Extramuros is a Roman Catholic church located on the outskirts of the city of Valladolid. Basically Baroque in style, it was built between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as part of the old convent of Carmen Descalzo. Today it is home to regular worship and a deep-rooted Marian devotion.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Extramuros (Valladolid) (ES), Website
24. Archivo Histórico Provincial
The Provincial Historical Archive of Valladolid is a document file located in the town of Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. It is located in the palace of the nursery, which was previously the Royal Audience and Chancery of Valladolid between 1371 and 1834. In the palace there is also the Archive of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid.
25. Sala de Exposiciones Iglesia de las Francesas
The Convent of the French Sisters is a Catholic temple located in the center of Valladolid since the 15th century. Currently only the cloister rehabilitated as a shopping centre is preserved, and the church that is now the Municipal Exhibition Hall, all inside a block of flats built in the seventies of the twentieth century.
26. Iglesia del Santuario
The Minor Basilica and National Shrine of the Great Promise is a Roman Catholic temple dedicated to the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located in the city of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. Its architecture is Baroque in style and its variegated interior furniture responds to different styles and periods.
27. Museo Arqueológico Provincial
The Museum of Valladolid was created as the Provincial Museum of Antiquities in 1879. Since the late 1960s, its headquarters are located in the Palacio de Fabio Nelli de Valladolid, an autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. The museum collection is distributed in two sections: Archaeology and Fine Arts.
28. Iglesia de San Miguel y San Julián
The church of San Miguel y San Julián is the temple of the former Professed House of the Society of Jesus in the city of Valladolid (Spain). When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 by order of Charles III of Spain, the building was used as the parish church of San Miguel, San Julián and Santa Basilisa in 1775.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Miguel y San Julián (Valladolid) (ES)
29. Iglesia de San Martín
The church of San Martín y San Benito el Viejo is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the center of the city of Valladolid, in the province of the same name in the Community of Castile and León, Spain. An Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), it has been a National Historic-Artistic Monument since 1993.
30. Rosaleda Francisco Sabadell
The Rosaleda Francisco Sabadell is one of the oldest gardens in Valladolid. It is next to the left bank of Pisuerga, extending along its route from the Poniente bridge to Isabel la Católica, lining in turn with the Isabel la Católica Paseo and Las Moreras beach. Its extension is 35,738 m².
31. Ermita de San Isidro
The hermitage of San Isidro is a hermitage located in the city of Valladolid. It is the only one of all the hermitages in Valladolid that is currently preserved. It is dedicated to San Isidro Labrador, patron saint of farmers. Between the 13th and 15th of May each year a pilgrimage is held.
32. Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol
The church of Santiago Apóstol is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city of Valladolid. Located on the Valladolid street of the same name, it was built in different stages and styles between the 15th and 17th centuries. It is the headquarters of the Confraternity of the Seven Words.
33. Estatua del Conde Ansúrez
The Monument to Count Ansúrez is an instance of public art in Valladolid, Spain. Located at the Plaza Mayor, it consists of a bronze statue of Count Pedro Ansúrez, founder of the town of Valladolid in the 11th century, topping off a stone pedestal with additional sculptural elements.
34. Convento de San Quirce y Santa Julita
The Convent of San Quirce y Santa Julita is a monastery located in Valladolid, Spain. Located in Trinity Square and occupied by Cistercian nuns, it is one of the oldest monasteries in the city. It is the headquarters of the Penitential Confraternity of the Sacred Passion of Christ.
35. Casa Museo de Cervantes
The Casa de Cervantes is a museum located in the city of Valladolid, Spain. The building was the home of the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. It is not to be confused with other houses associated with Cervantes, the birthplace in Alcala de Henares and the museum in Esquivias.
36. Monumento a los Cazadores de Alcántara
The Monument to the Hunters of Alcántara is located on the Paseo de Zorrilla in Valladolid, in front of the main door of the building of the Cavalry Academy of Valladolid. The sculptural ensemble is the work of Mariano Benlliure and was inaugurated on June 25, 1931.
37. Antigua Fábrica de harinas La Perla
The La Perla flour factory was an old flour mill in Valladolid built between 1856 and 1857 that worked thanks to the hydraulic power provided by the Canal de Castilla. The building was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 1991 and the factory closed in 2006.
38. Parque de las Moreras
Playa de las Moreras is a river beach located in the city of Valladolid. It is located parallel to the Paseo de Isabel la Católica, bordering the Francisco Sabadell Rose Garden and part of the left bank of the Pisuerga River. The beach dates back to the 1950s.
39. Iglesia de San Felipe Neri
The church of San Felipe Neri is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Valladolid, located on the street of the same name. It is not a parish church but was conceived as an oratory for the newly created congregation of St. Philip Neri of secular priests.
40. Fachada de la Universidad de Valladolid
The façade of the University of Valladolid of Spain was built between 1716 and 1718 in the Baroque style. The architect Fray Pedro de la Visitacion supervised the construction. The façade was part of a project to enlarge the buildings of the university.
41. Convento de Santa Teresa
The Convent of La Concepción del Carmen, popularly known as the Convent of Santa Teresa, is a cloistered convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns located in the Spanish city of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.
Wikipedia: Convento de la Concepción del Carmen (Valladolid) (ES)
42. Iglesia de los Dominicos
The Apostolic College of the Dominican Fathers is located in the city of Valladolid and with its set of buildings, of a teaching and conventual nature, it is configured as one of the pillars of the renewal of religious architecture in Spain.
Wikipedia: Iglesia del Colegio Apostólico de los Padres Dominicos (ES)
43. Museo de la Ciencia
Valladolid Science Museum was opened in May 2003 as a museum and an iconic piece of architecture based on an old flour mill. Rafael Moneo and Enrique de Teresa used a lot of the old industrial complex to create this new Science Museum.
44. Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola
The Church of San Ignacio de Loyola is a modern temple located in Valladolid. It is located in the neighborhood of Pajarillos. It was built and consecrated in 1972, at a time when the neighborhood around it was growing and expanding.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola (Valladolid) (ES)
45. Monumento a Cristóbal Colón
The Monument to Columbus is an instance of public art in Valladolid, Spain. Located on the centre of the namesake Plaza de Colón, in the southeastern corner of the Campo Grande, the monument is dedicated to Christopher Columbus.
46. Calle de la Platería
The historic complex of Calle de la Platería, together with the Plaza del Ochavo is part of the mercantile complex of the old Market Square of Valladolid and the artisans' quarter that had to be rebuilt after the fire of 1561.
47. Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Assumption, better known as Valladolid Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Valladolid, Spain. The main layout was designed by Juan de Herrera in a Renaissance-style.
48. Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol
The church of San Pedro Apóstol is a Roman Catholic church located in Valladolid. It is located behind the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid and near the historic Chancery Prison of Valladolid.
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