ZAMORA

Zamora is a city in Castile and León, Spain, the capital of the province of Zamora. It lies on a rocky hill in the northwest, near the frontier with Portugal and crossed by the Duero

river, which is some 50 km/30mi downstream as it reaches the Portuguese frontier. With its 24 Romanesque churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it has been called a "museum of Romanesque art". Zamora is the city with the

most Romanesque churches in all of Europe. Zamora has a unique Romanesque monument, with the peculiar

characteristics which is very difficult to find in other places.

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