Colegio de Santa Cruz

Valladolid


Check out the lovely colonnaded patio and chapel (replete with a super-realistic Cristo de la Luz sculpture). Off the ground floor of the patio is Valladolid University's excellent permanent exhibition of terracotta artefacts from across Africa.


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