Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Valladolid, Spain

Las Moreras beach 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.

Wikipedia: Playa de las Moreras (ES)

The convent of Santa Isabel is a Catholic temple located in the center of Valladolid. The convent has been restored, and the complete renovation of the church was completed in April 2006. Some spaces have been adapted to house the Museum of Santa Isabel, enjoying the atmosphere of the Franciscan cloister and contemplating pieces of remarkable artistic value in its rooms.

Wikipedia: Convento de Santa Isabel (Valladolid) (ES)

The Monastery of the Dominican Mothers of Santa Catalina is a Roman Catholic church located in Valladolid, Spain. It has interesting works of artistic value.

Wikipedia: Monasterio de Santa Catalina de Siena (Valladolid) (ES)

The church of San Miguel and San Julián is the temple of the old 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)

The Church of the Monastery of San Benito el Real is a parish church and former Benedictine monastery located in the city of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain.

Wikipedia: San Benito el Real, Valladolid (EN)

The Val market is a market in Valladolid (Spain). It is an example of iron architecture. It stands in the Plaça del Val, next to the church of San Benito el Real. It is the oldest market that is 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.

Wikipedia: Mercado del Val (ES), Website

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 called the Fuente de la Rinconada was, of which not one stone was left when it was completely dismantled when the square was remodelled at the end of the nineteenth century. The difference between one and the other is that the Rinconada was a public or neighborhood fountain while Los Colosos was born as a decorative fountain. It was built in 1996 by the architect Fernando González Poncio with sculptures by Pedro Monje.

Wikipedia: Fuente de Los Colosos (ES)

The Church of Our Father Jesus Nazareno is a modern temple located in the center of the Spanish city of Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Valladolid) (ES)

The Francisco Sabadell Rose Garden is one of the oldest gardens in Valladolid. It is located next to the left bank of the Pisuerga, extending along its route from the Poniente bridge to the Isabel la Católica bridge, bordering in turn with the Paseo de Isabel la Católica and the beach of Las Moreras. Its area is 35,738 m².

Wikipedia: Rosaleda Francisco Sabadell (ES)

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.

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The Plaza Mayor is a central plaza in the city of Valladolid, Spain. It is located only a few blocks away from another famous plaza, the Plaza Zorrilla.

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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 works of the City Council and was supplied by the water flow of Argales. This fountain had many changes and remodeling over the centuries. Nothing remains of the primitive fountain, 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 also built a new fountain with the title of "Allegory of the Guilds".

Wikipedia: Fuente Dorada (ES)

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.

Wikipedia: Calle de la Platería (ES)

The Penitential Church of Santa Vera Cruz is a temple located in the center of the city of Valladolid on the historic Calle Platerías.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de la Santa Vera Cruz (Valladolid) (ES)

The Teatro Calderón de la Barca is a theater in Valladolid, Spain. It is named after the playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

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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 Calderón Theater and near the Church of Santa María La Antigua. The church is owned and held by the Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, one of the oldest brotherhoods of Holy Week in Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias (Valladolid) (ES)

The collegiate church of Santa María de Valladolid was the main church of the city between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Its construction is due to the repopulator of Valladolid Pedro Ansúrez in the eleventh century. Today only a few ruins and a few chapels are preserved, located near the Church of Santa María La Antigua and next to the unfinished cathedral of Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor (Valladolid) (ES)

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Assumption, better known as Valladolid Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Valladolid, Spain. The main layout was designed by Juan de Herrera in a Renaissance-style.

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The Diocesan and Cathedral Museum of Valladolid is located inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Valladolid, autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain.

Wikipedia: Museo Diocesano y Catedralicio de Valladolid (ES)

The statue of Cervantes is located in the Plaza de la Universidad de Valladolid, placed in front of it.

Wikipedia: Estatua de Cervantes (Valladolid) (ES)

The Plaza de la Universidad is one of the main squares in the city center of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain. Historically known as Plaza de Santa María, it was renamed at the beginning of the twentieth century because it is the façade of the university, now the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Plaza de la Universidad (Valladolid) (ES)

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.

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The Church of Saint Mary the Ancient is a 12th-century church in Valladolid, central Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1897.

Wikipedia: Santa María La Antigua (EN)

The Church of San Martín and 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.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Martín (Valladolid) (ES)

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 desacralized to integrate, together with the palace, within the complex of the National Museum of Sculpture, as it adjoins, being separated by a garden, with the school of San Gregorio, the main headquarters.

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The church of Santa Clara de Asís is a Catholic temple located in Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa Clara de Asís (Valladolid) (ES)

The church of San Pedro Apóstol is a Catholic temple located in Valladolid. It is located behind the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid and near the historic Chancery Prison of Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol (Valladolid) (ES)

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 center of the city along with the Palacio de los Vivero, the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, the Church of San Pedro Apóstol and the Convent of the Descalzas Reales. It was the prison for prisoners whose cases were processed by the Court of the Royal Audience. It was for years a prison in Valladolid until 1935, when what is now the "Esgueva" Civic Center was inaugurated.

Wikipedia: Cárcel de la Chancillería de Valladolid (ES)

The Provincial Historical Archive of Valladolid is a document archive located in the town of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. It is located in the Palacio de los Vivero, which was previously the Royal Audience and Chancery of Valladolid between 1371 and 1834. The palace is also home to the Archive of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid.

Wikipedia: Archivo Histórico Provincial de Valladolid (ES)

Christopher Columbus Museum is a museum in Valladolid in western Spain built in 1968. Outside is a statue of the Santa María.

Wikipedia: Christopher Columbus Museum (EN)

The Church of Santa María Magdalena is a Roman Catholic parish church in Valladolid. It is located on Calle Colón, in front of the Columbus House Museum and next to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valladolid and the Monastery of Las Huelgas Reales.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena (Valladolid) (ES)

The Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas is one of the original monasteries of Cistercian nuns in Spain. It is located within the city of Valladolid in the Duero region.

Wikipedia: Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas, Valladolid (EN)