Calle de Zamora
It bears the name of Zamora, the Castilian city overlooking the Duero, part of the group of Bellas Vistas streets named after Spanish place names.
The name comes from Zamora, the city of Castile and León perched on a hill beside the Duero. In this corner of Bellas Vistas, where the street plan gathered names of the country’s provinces and cities, Zamora joined neighbours such as Tenerife and Pamplona. Why this particular capital was chosen has not survived.
From its walls comes its best-remembered episode. In 1072 King Sancho II besieged it for more than seven months without breaking it, until the nobleman Bellido Dolfos killed him at the city gates. From that siege came the saying “Zamora was not won in an hour.”
Zamora holds today one of the largest concentrations of Romanesque art in Europe, with more than twenty churches built mostly in the twelfth century.