a Spanish city in Old Castile on the Pisuerga River (a tributary of the Duero) and the Canal de Castilla. Administrative center of Valladolid Province. Population, 174,600(1968).
Valladolid has recently become a large center of automobile and tractor production. There is an aluminum plant that produced more than one-fifth of Spanish aluminum in 1965, enterprises that produce nitric fertilizer, and flour, textile, and leather industries.
Vallodolid is known to have existed since the tenth century. The city is laid out irregularly, with the Plaza Mayor framed by porticoes and many buildings in the plateresque style (15th century). They include churches and the colleges of Santa Cruz (now an archaeological museum, architect E. de Egas) and San Gregorio (since 1938 a national museum of religious sculpture, architect J. Guas). Among other buildings are the Church of Santa Maria la Antigua (11th—14th centuries), the cathedral (1582, architect J. de Herrera; unfinished), and the university (founded in 1346; facade dates from 1715). There is a monument to Columbus (1905) and other monuments in Valladolid.