Zamora

Zamora is a commune of Spain, capital of the Province of Zamora, autonomous community of Castille-and-León. Zamora , a city of the Castille and Leon, preserves in his old city of many buildings of Romance style, which was worth to him to be classified Historic site. Located on the edges of the Duero, along “Ruta Vía of Plata” (the road of the money), this city has many ramparts, palate and churches testifying to its influence at the time medieval. The “Ruta del Duero” and “Ruta Vía of Plata” are two routes making it possible to know the art and the history of the province. Without speaking about the traditional gastronomy of Zamora and its secular traditions, like the celebration of the Holy Week, a classified festival of tourist interest.

In the cycle of Conan the barbarian of Robert Ervin Howard Zamora corresponds to a country resembling by his inhabitants, his climate and his vegetation, in the north of Eastern Europe.

History

It was called Ocellodurum in the Antiquité. Taken with the Moors into 748 by Alphonse the Catholic, king of the Asturies, it was reconquered and almost destroyed into 985 by Almanzor. This place was taken again in 1093 by Cid. Alphonse Large the, king of Asturies, had gained there a great victory over the Moors in 901.

Personalities related to the commune

Baltasar Lobo, sculptor (1910 - 1993).
Marino Alonso, old runner professional Cycliste was born there in 1965.

Internal bonds

List of the bishops of Zamora

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