Ledesma, Castile and León
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Ledesma () is a town in the province of Salamanca (
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). According to the 2016
census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
there are 1,767 inhabitants. The municipality of Ledesma includes rural land and covers a total of . Its altitude is above sea level. Its Spanish postal code is 37100. In ancient Roman times, the town was called ''Bletisa''. It is possible that the
Bletonesii The Bletonesii were one of the pre-Roman Celtic peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, modern Spain and Portugal), dwelling around the city of ''Bletisa'' or ''Bletisama'', located in modern Ledesma in the province of Salamanca, Spa ...
lived in this area.


Heritage


The Castle

What we see today of the building, despite its grandeur is a small part of the initial splendor, the entire wall that covered this fortress in its part outside the walls has been lost and, for the intramural part, the accesses and towers that they connected it to an annex building, possibly a palace.


La Plaza de la Fortaleza

It is a large landscaped esplanade that shelters a series of subways, vaulted chambers, conduits, powder magazines ... that would constitute the cellars and water pipes of the hypothetical palace that began to be built annex to the palace in the late fifteenth century early XVI.


Casa Consistorial (Town Hall)

It is a building started in 1484, rectangular in shape and constituted as a large solid building and almost fortified in appearance.


Puente Mocho

The Mocho Bridge is located 3 km north of Ledesma, on the Roman road that linked Ledesma with Zamora to save the Cañedo riverbank. It has five semicircular arches. Its construction has been repeatedly attributed to Roman times.


Gothic and Renaissance palaces

There are several palaces that Ledesma preserves from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.


Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor (Church)

Begun to build in the last third of the 12th century in the final Romanesque style, from that time today only the arch through which Calle de los Curas runs in the lower part of the tower remains. The great extension that is made between 1492 and 1500 is commissioned to Juan Gil de Hontañón el Viejo and consists of the construction of the entire nave of the church up to the triumphal arch that separates it from the Main Chapel and the middle body of the tower , decorated with the typical Elizabethan balls. The style of this work is considered one of the greatest exponents of the Spanish-Flemish Gothic style due to the ribbed vaults of "herringbone" and the risky curved arch of the back choir. It is in 1556 when he commissioned Juan Gil de Hontañón, the Mozo to build the highest part of the tower and the project of the Main Chapel, finally carried out by Pedro de Inestrosa and Pedro de Gamboa.


See also

*
List of municipalities in Salamanca This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. There are 362 municipalities in the province. See also *Geography of Spain * List of cities in Spain * Kingdom of León ...


References

Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca {{Salamanca-geo-stub