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| | Valladolid, Spain |
 | | Valladolid, chief town of its province, the see of an archbishop and a university town, lies on the Río Pisuerga just above its confluence with the Duero, on the fertile plateau of Old Castile. |
 | | In 1469 the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, were married in Valladolid, and in 1504-06 Columbus, an ailing and disappointed man, spent the last two years of his life in the town. |
 | | For brief periods during the 16th and 17th centuries, during the reigns of Philip II and III, Valladolid was the seat of the Spanish court. |
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