Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Valladolid, Spain
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4.6 km
105 m
Explore Valladolid in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in ValladolidIndividual Sights in ValladolidSight 1: Monasterio de Santa Catalina de Siena
The Monastery of the Dominican Mothers of Santa Catalina is a Catholic temple located in Valladolid, Spain. He has interesting works of artistic value.
Wikipedia: Monasterio de Santa Catalina de Siena (Valladolid) (ES)
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Iglesia de San Nicolás
The church of San Nicolás de Bari is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the center of the city of Valladolid, in the province of the same name of the community of Castile and León, Spain.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: Plaza del Viejo Coso
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.
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: Zorrillas's House Museum
The House of Zorrilla in Valladolid, Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, (Spain) is the property in which the romantic poet was born on February 21, 1817.
Sight 10: 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.
Sight 11: 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.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: Iglesia de Santa Clara de Asís
The Church of Santa Clara de Asís is a Roman Catholic church located in Valladolid.
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: 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)
Sight 17: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de La Victoria
The church of Nuestra Señora de la Victoria is a modern church located in Valladolid.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Victoria (Valladolid) (ES)
Sight 18: Locomotora Rioseco de la línea FSC
The Compañía del Ferrocarril Económico de Valladolid a Medina de Rioseco was a Spanish railway company that operated between 1881 and 1930.It was also known as the "donkey train" because of its slowness, as Blas Pajarero implies in "Retazos de Torozos":
Wikipedia: Compañía del Ferrocarril Económico de Valladolid a Medina de Rioseco (ES)
Sight 19: 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.
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