Plaza Mayor de Almagro

Plaza Mayor de Almagro is a town square located in the city of Almagro, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It probably originated from a small mooring castle estimated by historians to be today's the Hermitage of San Juan. It was bestowed by Gonzalo Yáñez de Noboa, IX master of the Order of Calatrava in 1213, and was to by referred by Ferdinand III in 1222.[1] Capital of the Calatravos and of all those who later called it Campo de Calatrava, it soon reached such a strength that King Alfonso X the Wise established a Cortes Generales there in 1273.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Vizuete Mendoza, J. Carlos (2010). Los antiguos Colegios-Universidad de Toledo y Almagro (siglos XVI-XIX). Univ de Castilla La Mancha. ISBN 8484276295.
  2. ↑ Procter, Evelyn Stefanos (1980). Curia and Cortes in León and Castile, 1072-1295. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 0521226392.

Coordinates: 38°53′19″N 3°42′43″W / 38.88861°N 3.71194°W / 38.88861; -3.71194

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