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The Royal Collegiate Basilica of San Isidoro or, simply, San Isidoro de León, is a Christian temple located in the city of León, in Spain. It is one of the most prominent Romanesque architectural ensembles in Spain, for its history, architecture, sculpture, and for the Romanesque sumptuous objects that have been preserved. It has the peculiarity of having a Royal Pantheon located at the foot of the church, with Romanesque mural painting and original capitals, all of which make it a unique piece of the Romanesque world of the time. The set was built and enlarged during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
It was originally a monastery dedicated to San Pelayo, although it is assumed that a Roman temple was previously based on its foundations. With the transfer of the remains of San Isidoro, Bishop of Seville, Doctor of Spain to León, the ownership of the temple was changed.
The church building retains some Romanesque vestiges of the first construction of Fernando I and Sancha. The Pantheon and the two doors of its southern façade, called Puerta del Cordero and Puerta del Perdón, plus the North or Capitular Gate, are the first manifestations of Romanesque art in the Leonese territories. Over time, modifications and Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque additions were made.
It is a Historic Artistic Monument since February 9, 1910. [note 1]

The Cathedral of Santa María de Regla de León is a temple of Catholic worship, episcopal seat of the diocese of León, Spain, consecrated under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. It was the first monument declared in Spain by Royal Order of August 28, 1844 (confirmed by Royal Order on September 24, 1845).
Started in the thirteenth century, it is one of the great works of the Gothic style, of French influence. Known with the nickname of Pulchra leonina, which means 'Bella Leonesa', it is located on the Camino de Santiago.
The cathedral of León is known above all for taking to the extreme the "dematerialization" of Gothic art, that is, the reduction of the walls to their minimum expression to be replaced by colored stained glass, constituting one of the largest collections of medieval stained glass in the world .

The Guzmanes Palace is a 16th-century Renaissance palace located in the Plaza de San Marcelo next to the Casa Botines in the city of León, Spain. His trace is due to the master Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón although Juan de Ribero Rada dealt with his execution. Despite being unfinished, it became the most prominent palace in the city. Already in the twentieth century the Provincial Council of León was responsible for finishing it to adapt it to its new functions, and currently houses the offices of the Provincial Council.
It was declared a Historical Monument (BIC) in 1963.

León (pronounced: / leˈon /) (in Asturian, Llión) is a municipality and a Spanish city located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, capital of the homonymous province, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. León had 127,817 inhabitants in January 2015 spread over an area of ​​39.03 km², and a metropolitan area of ​​231 623 inhabitants according to the map of functional areas of the Junta de Castilla y León (other projects give different figures ), distributed in fifteen municipalities, thus being the second most populous in the community. [n. 1]
Born as a Roman military camp of Legio VI Victrix towards 29 a. C., its character of a campaign city was consolidated with the definitive settlement of Legio VII Gemina from the year 74. After its partial depopulation on the occasion of the Muslim conquest of the peninsula, Leon received a new impulse as part of the Kingdom of Asturias . In 910 one of its most outstanding historical stages began when it became the head of the Kingdom of León, actively participating in the Reconquest against Muslims, becoming one of the fundamental kingdoms in the configuration of the Kingdom of Spain. The city housed the first Cortes in the history of Europe in 1188, under the reign of Alfonso IX, thanks to which in 2011 it was proclaimed by the Junta de Castilla y León as the Cradle of Parliamentarianism. Since the Late Middle Ages the city ceased to have the importance of yesteryear, partly due to the loss of its independence after the union of the Leon kingdom to the Castilian Crown, definitive since 1301.
Immersed in a period of stagnation during the Modern Age, in the War of Independence it was one of the first cities to revolt throughout Spain, and years after the end of it, in 1833, it would acquire its rank of provincial capital. The arrival of the twentieth century brought the Expansion Plan, which increased the urban expansion that had been experiencing since the late nineteenth century, when the city became an important communications hub in the northwest on the occasion of the rise of coal mining and The arrival of the railway.
Its historical and monumental heritage, as well as various celebrations that take place throughout the year, among which the Holy Week stands out, and its situation as an obligatory passage of the Camino de Santiago, considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, make it a city that receives national and international tourism. Among its most representative monuments are the Cathedral, the best example of classic French-style Gothic in Spain, the Basilica of San Isidoro, one of the most important Romanesque churches in Spain, tomb of the medieval kings of León and considered as La Capilla Sistine of Romanesque Art, the Monastery of San Marcos, the first example of Spanish Plateresque and Renaissance architecture, the palace of Los Guzmanes, the palace of the Counts of Luna, the church of Mercado or Camino la Antigua, the church of Palat del Rey, the Casa de las Carnicerías and the Casa Botines, modernist style and made by the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí; all of them declared Well of Cultural Interest. Outstanding example of modern architecture, and one of the city's museums, is the MUSAC, of ​​Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos.
León has a developed road and rail network, in addition to an airport.
The city is immersed in the development of different projects such as the conversion of the Feve by tram or the congress hall, among others. The tram project raised several criticisms by the Popular Party, then in the municipal opposition, which claimed that its development in a city like León was a pharaonic project and of doubtful viability and announced that under its government would not develop such a project.
The University of León, founded in 1979 as a division of the University of Oviedo, in the 2006-07 academic year had 13,217 students; It has its headquarters in the city and is cataloged, based on criteria such as university demand, human resources or curricula, such as the 2nd University of Castilla y León, after the University of Salamanca, and the 30th of Spain. Since May 4, 2010, the city houses the second headquarters of the University of Washington in Europe, after its headquarters in Rome, with capacity for 500 students interested in learning Spanish . Since 2011 the city also has a headquarters of the Confucius Institute.

The Botines house or Fernández y Andrés house is a modernist style building located in the Spanish city of León, capital of the homonymous province. Originally it was a commercial warehouse and private residence. Built and designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí between 1891 and 1892, it is one of his three works outside of Catalonia, next to the Episcopal Palace of Astorga - also in the province of León - and El Capricho de Comillas, in Cantabria.
It is located next to the Palace of the Guzmanes - headquarters of the Diputación de León - and next to the Plaza de Santo Domingo, meeting place between the old town and the widening. It was restored in 1953 and, in 1969, it was declared a Historical Monument of Cultural Interest. It currently houses the Gaudí Casa Botines Museum managed by the Spain-Duero Foundation.
The term Casa Botines derives from the surname of the founder of the company, Juan Homs y Botines, a businessman and trader of Catalan origin based in the capital of Leon. His partners Mariano Andrés González-Luna and Simón Fernández Fernández were responsible for the commission of the house to Gaudí.
This work belongs to the neo-Gothic period of Gaudí (1888-1898), a stage in which the architect was inspired mainly by medieval Gothic art, which he assumed freely, personally, trying to improve his structural solutions. The neo-Gothic was at that time one of the most successful historicist styles, especially following the theoretical studies of Viollet-le-Duc. Gaudí studied in depth the Catalan, Balearic and Roussillon Gothic, as well as the Leonese and the Castilian in his stays in León and Burgos, and came to the conviction that it was an imperfect, half-resolved style. In his works of this era he eliminated the need for buttresses by using ruled surfaces and suppressed excessive cresting and drafts.
This work is registered as a monument declared in the register of Cultural Interest Assets of Spanish heritage with the code RI-51-0003826.

The pantheon of the kings of León, which is located at the foot of the basilica of San Isidoro de León, is the place where most of the kings and queens of the kingdom of León were buried during the Middle Ages.
It is a rectangular space with portico, approximately eight meters on the side, with two robust columns on which seven arches that divide the space into three naves are supported. The pictorial cycle that adorns its walls is considered one of the summits of Spanish Romanesque.

The León Museum, located in the Plaza de Santo Domingo in the city of León (Spain), is the oldest museum in the province and is dedicated to narrating its history through Archeology, Art and Ethnography . Inaugurated in 1869, although founded from the activity of the Provincial Commission of Monuments of León in the context of nineteenth-century confiscation, since 2007 it has been known as the Pallarés Building, in the center of the City. It also has two annexes: the Roman Villa of Navatejera, in the town of Navatejera (in the neighboring municipality of Villaquilambre), and the old Convent of San Marcos (León), which is the historical headquarters of the Museum.

The Procurator of the Common is the name of the Ombudsman in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla y León. It has the powers of defending the fundamental rights of citizens, supervising the administration and public authorities when they violate the rights of citizens. The law of the Courts of Castilla y León 2/1994 of March 9 regulates The basic operation of the charge.
The Procurators in Courts elect the Procurator of the Common in voting by majority of the 3/5 parts and for a period of 4 years.

The Emperor Theater, designed in 1949 by Madrid architect Manuel de Cárdenas in collaboration with Gonzalo de Cárdenas and Francisco J. Sanz and opened in 1951, is an important and emblematic Spanish theater of the Leonese capital located in the widening of the city.
Its recent history has been the cause of a lively controversy in the Leonese society, which feared for the future of the building and that triggered the purchase from its owner, the Leonesa Spectacle Company, by the city council. This one got rid of him for the benefit of the Ministry of Culture in 2008, which he acquired to implant in the emblematic theater the National Center for Performing Arts and Historical Music. Although the severe restoration planned for this purpose was expected to be completed in 2011, in October of that year the contest called by the Ministry of Development for its rehabilitation was ruled out, in favor of the Gaforidis, S.L.P.

The Trianón theater, designed by the architect Javier Sanz in 1946, was one of the theaters in León. He had filed a file of Cultural Interest Assets from November 24, 1986 to August 18, 2016, finally filed.

The Avenida de Ordoño II de León is the most emblematic avenue of the capital of Leon and its main commercial artery. Part of the Plaza de Santo Domingo and ends in the Plaza de Guzmán el Bueno, being both squares, next to the Plaza de la Inmaculada, the most emblematic squares of the city.
The avenue was previously known as Paseo de las Negrillas, name with which it was known until the development of the widening, from which it began to be known as Avenida de Ordoño II.

The palace of Count Luna is a monument that is located in the Spanish city of León.
From this old 14th-century palace, built by Pedro Suárez de Quiñones and his wife Juana González de Bazán, the central body of the facade is preserved, with three shields, the central Quiñones and the sides of the Bazán. It is built of stone masonry and is about eleven meters wide. The cover is gothic with lintel on modillions, a large pointed arch covers the eardrum, and is framed in wide molding.
Catalina Pimentel expanded it by building the three-story Renaissance keep, padded rigging, made of masonry and green slate boards. The window sills show the sands of the Quiñones surrounded by fruit motifs.
The Court of the Inquisition was installed in this palace for many years.
It was declared a Historic Monument in 1931. Owned by the Octavio Álvarez Carballo Foundation.
It has just been completely restored and is used as a place for temporary exhibitions. Currently in exhibition "Roots. The legacy of a Kingdom. León 910-1230" until December 2010. It has also been partially transferred by the City of Leon to the University of Washington, which uses the building as headquarters in Spain, for learning of Spanish by his students.

San Salvador de Palat del Rey is a Christian church considered the oldest known in the city of León, in Spain. It belonged to a monastery founded by King Ramiro II of León, built between 931-951 next to his palace and destined for his daughter Elvira Ramírez who entered it as Abbess nun. Next to the property there was a cemetery, estimated as the first royal pantheon of Leon. With the incursion of Almanzor in the area in 988, the complex would suffer significant devastation. Later restorations began in the church that became a parish, although it reached the first years of the twentieth century in a state of abandonment such that it was about to be destroyed. It was saved thanks to the architectural study of archaeologist Juan Crisóstomo Torbado and the historical study of Manuel Gómez-Moreno; both demonstrated the importance of conserving a building of great value in the history of the kingdom of León and therefore in the history of Spain. In 2006, the last restoration and enhancement of this ancient church took place. It was declared of Cultural Interest in 1931.

The Church of San Juan and San Pedro de Renueva is a Catholic parish temple in the city of León (community of Castilla y León, Spain). It was built in the mid-twentieth century in neo-Renaissance style.