Do not have a plan for this weekend? We suggest a very opportune. Come to the city and runs Pisuerga places where the writer Miguel Delibes set his last and best-selling novel.
Deeply linked to Valladolid, Miguel Delibes reflected in his novel The Heretic daily life of the Castilian city in the mid-sixteenth century, its moment of maximum splendor. He chose a historical fact: the two great autos de fe held in the Plaza Mayor in 1559 and the schism of the church led by Luther in the background. One route goes through the stages of this work which won the National Award for Fiction and recalls the adventures of some of its characters, especially his protagonist, Cipriano. Around the feast of San Pedro Regalado, 13 May, the tour is led by a group of actors on a theatrical tour.
1 – Plaza de San Pablo
In the Loch of St. Paul, Current Street of Sorrows, in the bud aristocratic town house placed the author of Salcedo, where Cipriano, the protagonist, was born in 1517. Ten years after coming to the world Philip II, who eventually would be to blame for the tragic end of the first in the palace on the corner between the square of St. Paul and the Loch, now the seat of the county council. St. Paul’s Square was throughout the sixteenth century public space par excellence of the city and travel by it should include a visit inside the church of St. Paul, the Royal Palace and the palace courtyard entryway and Pimentel. A few yards away, in the present street Cadenas de San Gregorio, is located the National Museum Colegio de San Gregorio, formerly called the National Sculpture Museum, whose visit is also imperative to appreciate the artistic context, and especially religious, of that time.
2 – The Bachelor palace Butron
The world of lawyers, represented in the novel by Ignacio Salcedo, judge and lawyer of the Chancery, leads to the gigantic Palace of the Graduate Butron in neighboring plaza of the brigades. In 1637 the building was handed over to the nuns of St. Bridget, who began to raise the adjacent church and the reforms needed for use convent since the mid-nineteenth century, girls’ school also. It is now headquarters of the Archivo General de Castilla y León.
3 – Plaza de Fabio Nelli
The Calle de San Ignacio reached a crossroads at which overlook two of the most ostentatious palaces of XVI Valladolid: the palace of Valverde, on the corner, and the palace of Fabio Nelli, with the front somewhat withdrawn leaving space for a small square. This is based, since 1967, the Museum of Valladolid, divided into two major sections: Archeology and Fine Arts.
4 – Palacio de los Condes de Benavente
The Foundling street, which borders one side of the palace of Fabio Nelli, leads to the Plaza de la Trinidad allowed in the area where the old Jewish quarter was situated in Valladolid. The street name recalls the role of orphanage that served the main building of the plaza, the mammoth Palace of Benavente, where he studied Cipriano. In this area of the Salcedo family Jewry had its wool warehouse, near the historic bridge Mayor, the only way to save their merchandise Pisuerga driving first to the city of Burgos and then to the markets of Flanders. The Palace of Benavente, now converted into a Public Library of Castile and Leon, was one of the main buildings of Valladolid courtier. It was born the Infanta Maria Mauricia, married King Louis XIII of France and Alexander Dumas became the protagonist of one of the most popular works of world literature, The Three Musketeers.
5 – Convento de Santa Catalina
In the narrow street of Santo Domingo de Guzman, who barely retained something of the flavor of old Valladolid, stands the convent of Dominican nuns of Santa Catalina closing. This, along with Santa Clara and St. Mary of Bethlehem, in the novel by Delibes and the three who frequents Cipriano to publicize the thesis of Dr. Cazalla, and the nuns welcome with an interest that will end up paying. One of the most precious relics of the convent of Santa Catalina is a replica of the Shroud display in the chapel in which the lawyer is buried Acedo Juan Soriano, a lawyer for the Royal Chancery of Valladolid. The nuns sold through the round, delicious sweets made by the community: shortbread, amarguillos bread or Cádiz famous.
6 – The chapel of Fuensaldaña
On the street of the Incarnation, compared to the Monastery of Santa Isabel, stands the chapel of Fuensaldaña, an aggregation of Gothic workmanship remodeling that persisted to the renaissance that led to the monastery of San Benito. In her mind she was buried Delibes Nursery Leonor, mother of Dr. Cazalla. The chapel was incorporated into the renovations carried out to convert part of the huge monastery of San Benito in the Museum of Contemporary Art and the interior courtyard Herreriano used as one of its exhibition halls. While skirting the head of the church of St. Benedict is left to one side the street dedicated to Dr. Cazalla, where stood the house that also served as a place of secret meetings of his group Lutheran. From the Plaza de Fuente Dorada Orates split the street in which stood the Hospital of the Innocents or Orates, which Cipriano was forced to join his wife Teo ‘Queen of the Paramo’ when it goes haywire. Also located here’s Tavern Delibes Garabito and access the procession of prisoners to the order of faith from the secret prison of the Inquisition.
7 – The Plaza Mayor
It was in the sixteenth century the market square and the place where all kinds of festivals celebrated, both civil and religious, but also where some of the autos de fe of 1559, turned into a massive show. After the fire of 1561 it proceeded to its reconstruction, designed by Francisco de Salamanca by order of Philip II.
8 – The Church of Santiago
On the facade of the church of Santiago which faces the street looks the same name plate that the city of Valladolid devoted to the writer Miguel Delibes, thus thanking the dedication that the writer made to the city at the beginning of his novel the heretic. The place and the streets are not random. The pedestrian precinct is one of the busiest in the city. The church plays an important role in the novel as a scenario in which the doctor conducted his sermons Cazalla every Friday.
9 – Campo Grande
The door of the Field or the brothel was where the street ended today in Santiago and leading into the Plaza de Zorrilla. On the left side of the square, where now stands the house Mantilla, arose in the fifteenth century the largest brothel in the city, run by the Brotherhood of Consolation, who ran the business benefits to charities. On the right side, somewhere between the space now occupied by the side of Campo Grande and the facade of the Academy of Cavalry stood the burning which attended the last act of the trial against the protestant public burning.