Spain Castile and Leon Zamora
Zamora boasts an excellent array of Romanesque buildings, monuments, and other artifacts, with the pinnacle being its cathedral.
Zamora is a city in Castile and Leon, Spain. It lies on a rocky hill in the northwest, near the frontier with Portugal and crossed by the Duero river, which is some 50 km downstream as it reaches the Portuguese frontier. With its 24 characteristic Romanesque style churches of the 12th and 13th centuries it has been called a "museum of Romanesque art". Zamora is the city with the most Romanesque churches in all of Europe. The most important celebration in Zamora is the Holy Week in Zamora.
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Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León / Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León, Zamora by Trevor Huxham
