City council in the square. Built in the sixteenth century, the main square of Valladolid is the first regular square in Spain

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Valladolid is a Spanish city located in the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. The city is also headquarters of the Courts and the Board of the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. Keep in a historic old town consists of palaces, noble houses, churches, squares, avenues and parks, along with a heritage museum which highlights the National Sculpture Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Oriental Museum and the house-museum of José Zorrilla and Cervantes. Picture: Built in the sixteenth century, the main square of Valladolid is the first regular square in Spain, and served as a model, since the seventeenth century, for many other squares in Spain and South America: in the nineteenth century, the old Market Square became the cultural, political, economic and social in town.

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Size: 4912px × 3264px
Location: Main square, Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain
Photo credit: © Nacho Calonge / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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