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Wall of Urueña

The Wall of Urueña, corresponding to the XII century, is located in this municipality of Valladolid, Castilla y León, (Spain). The wall that surrounds the city is from the XII and XIII centuries, made of masonry and bordered from stretch to stretch by semi-cylindrical cubes. It is preserved 80% of the walled enclosure, covering an area of almost 7 hectares, irregularly shaped. It is adapted to the steep edge of the moor where the village is located. It has two gates. The main one, Puerta del Azogue, opens to the north, and is the typical gate built in an elbow for better defense against possible invaders. The other gate is to the south, bordering the previous one; it is the Arco de la Villa, less protected from the architectural point of view because on that side the moor falls steeply to the valley. It is all crenellated and is crossed by a parapet road.

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Church of Our Lady of the Annunciated, Urueña

The Church of Nuestra Señora de la Anunciada de Urueña (Province of Valladolid, Spain) built in the 11th century is located outside the walled enclosure of the town, in the valley. It is known that previously there was a small Mozarabic monastery called San Pedro de Cubillas and that it was an Infanta "Doña Sancha" (perhaps Sancha de Urgel) who transformed it into this church. It corresponds to the first Romanesque with Lombard ornamentation that spread throughout Catalonia and Aragon and it is believed that its influence is due to the descendants of Count Pedro Ansúrez (the repopulator of Valladolid), the Ermengol, from the county of Urgel. The temple is built in ashlar, with very thick walls, without buttresses, with decoration of blind arches and Lombard bands on the walls of the three apses and the transept. In the transept rises the octagonal dome that rests on the square dome with the help of 4 trumpets. The naves have a barrel vault. In the XVIII century, the current quadrangular apse was added to the apse and the front of the feet was changed. Also in that century the dedication of the church was changed. Inside is the image of Nuestra Señora de la Anunciada, a dress image. Her feast and pilgrimage is celebrated on March 25.

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Quicksilver Gate

The Azogue gate, located to the north is the main entrance to the town. It is a semicircular arch flanked by two cubes that create a narrow defensive corridor, prepared to protect the town from possible incursions from the outside. It preserves the hinges of the door.

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Urueña Castle

It was ordered to be built around the year 1060 (11th century) by the Castilian monarch Ferdinand I the Great on the remains of an ancient Roman fortification. Here resided very influential characters of the Castilian history, as it was the queen Doña Urraca (XII century), whose presence gave name to the aforementioned tower or María de Padilla, who was confined in the castle in the middle of the XIV century by her lover Pedro I the Cruel, who visited her while married to Blanca de Borbón. Located in the south-eastern end of the town, it has a rectangular shape adorned with semicircular cubes along its entire perimeter, except for the one located to the south, the so-called Torre del Homenaje, which has a square shape. At the point where the castle meets the wall is a large cube known as the Peinador de la Reina or Torreón de Doña Urraca, which is the highest point of the castle-murallas monumental complex at nearly 17 meters high. Nowadays it only conserves the exterior walls, having disappeared completely the different rooms that it could have had in the past. On the other hand, this fortress-castle was also used as a prison. Within its walls was condemned, among others, Count Pedro Vélez, who died in a peculiar way when he was found in love with a cousin of King Sancho III el Deseado (1157-1158). The sentence, issued by the monarch, read as follows: Do not give him anything where he can lie and from four to four months a limb will be taken away from him until with pain his life will be finished. The Count of Luna, the Count of Urgel, and the Infanta Beatriz of Portugal were also taken prisoner here. In the middle of the 15th century it came into the possession of the Counts of Urueña, being the residence of the corregidor through whom they were represented in the town.

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Urueña Cemetery

Since the nineteenth century (1832) Urueña Castle houses the municipal cemetery, which gives it an incredible charm, undoubtedly one of the most picturesque cemeteries in Spain.

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La Puerta de la Villa

The Puerta de la Villa, to the south, is a pointed arch that formerly bore the arms of the Girón family (no longer visible today), counts of Urueña and lords of the town, dukes of Osuna and marquises of Peñafiel. It still preserves the central slot for the "rake" in the upper part of the door and the holes for the hinges of the doors. As it opens abruptly towards the moor, it lacks the defensive system found in the Azogue gate.

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