Valladolid Province - Valladolid, Province of Valladolid, Cr El Salvador, University of Valladolid, Cathedral of Valladolid (Paperback)

Chapters: Valladolid, Province of Valladolid, Cr El Salvador, University of Valladolid, Cathedral of Valladolid, Church of Saint Mary the Ancient, Cb Valladolid, Valladolid Airport, Valladolid Debate, Royal Audiencia and Chanciller a of Valladolid, Plaza Mayor, Valladolid, Seminci, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valladolid, Pintia, Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, National Sculpture Museum, Pisuerga, Plaza Del Coso, Santa Cruz Palace, Santa Mar a La Real de Las Huelgas, Valladolid Royal Palace, Pabell n Polideportivo Pisuerga, San Pablo Church, Christopher Columbus Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Valladolid - Valladolid painted in 1574 by Braun and Hogenberg.One suggestion for the origin of Valladolid's name comes from its sounding something like the Arabic name "BaladulWalid" ( ) meaning The City of Walid in memory of one of the Ummayad dynasty's greatest caliphs in Damascus; but no good reason has been given as to why the Moors should have given such a grand title to what was then just a little village on a remote and much contested frontier of their empire. A more likely suggestion is a conjunction of the Latin: VALLIS, "Valley," and Celtic: TOLITUM, "place of confluence of waters. Ruins of a Roman settlement have been found in the area and the area was occupied by Celtic tribes when it was conquered by the Romans. Another suggestion is valla ("fence" in Spanish) "de" (of) Olid (Spanish family name). It is also popularly called Pucela, a nickname whose origin is not clear, but probably refers to a few knights who accompanied Joan of Arc. Another theory tells that it was called Pucela because Puzzeli's cement was sold there, the only city in Spain that did. 'Battle of knights in the main square of Valladolid', historical ceiling preser...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=69311