Zamora is a city in Castile-Leon, 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 50km/30mi downstream as it reaches the Portuguese frontier.
With its 24 Romanesque churches of the 12th and 13th centuries it has
been called a "museum of Romanesque art".
Zamora is the city with more Romanesque churches in all Europe.
Zamora has a unique Romanesque monument, with the peculiar
characteristics which is very difficult to find in other places.
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