Architectural description
Segovia
During the s. I BC the Romans gave it a city charter, its location was a strategic place located in the central place of the road that linked Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) with Augusta Emerita (Mérida). The Romans built large infrastructures in the city such as the 15 km long aqueduct with three sections: the first open or buried; the second raised above the ground is built with granite ashlars placed to bone, it is made up of two levels of semicircular arches that reach 28.10 m in height; the third section is buried under the city.
In the 6th century the Visigoths founded an episcopal seat. The Muslims will conquer it in the 8th century, their footprint was light as the time spent in the city was short; later it suffered a depopulation that lasted until the 11th century when Alfonso VI considered it an important enclave for the conquest of Toledo. Towards 1088 it will encourage its repopulation and Segovia will become an important center of transhumance, of textile manufactures and of the wool trade. It will be the seat of the royal palace of the Castilian kings of the house of Trastámara. Isabel la Católica will be proclaimed queen of Castile on December 13, 1474 in Segovia.
