The Seat of the Cortes of Castile and León ( es, Sede de las Cortes de Castilla y León) is a legislative building opened in 2007 for the

Cortes of Castile and León The Cortes of Castile and León (Spanish: ''Cortes de Castilla y León'') is the elected unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. The tradition of the regional Cortes is traced back to the Royal Council (Latin: ' ...

, situated in the city of

Valladolid Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province o ...

History

The modern

was first situated in the small town of

Tordesillas Tordesillas () is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of . The population was c. 9,000 . The town is located ...

on 21 May 1983, and then moved to Fuensaldaña Castle near

. In April 2004, work began on this new building designed by Ramón Fernández Alonso from

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, though the final design was modified by local architects Leopoldo Cortejoso and Juan Antonio Coronado. On 14 November 2007, the building was opened by King

Juan Carlos I Juan Carlos I (;, * ca, Joan Carles I, * gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...

and Queen Sophia of Spain. Around 200 guests attended, including former presidents of the regional government and incumbents of neighbouring regions. An initial €39.6 million budget rose to over €79.5 million costs by January 2009.

Description

Situated in the neighbourhood of Villa de Prado, the

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building covers 30,000 square metres of floor space and is divided into four blocks. The construction included materials from all nine of the region's provinces, including granite, quartz, marble and sandstone. In the main chamber, there is a mosaic from the 4th century AD, excavated from a former

Roman villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...

on the site which gave its name to the neighbourhood.

References

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