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Adjoining the church of San Pablo rises Valladolid's principal architectural showpiece, the former Colegio de San Gregorio, built between 1488 and 1496 for Isabella the Catholic's confessor Alonso de Burgos, bishop of Palencia.
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Colegio de San Gregorio Highlights

Colegio de San Gregorio - Facade

The sumptuously decorated facade (ascribed to Gil de Siloé), with its numerous statues, coats of arms and naturalistic ornament, is a masterpiece of Isabelline architecture.

Colegio de San Gregorio - Patio

No less magnificent than the facade is the second patio, which is entered from another, more modest, courtyard. Over an arcaded gallery with plain twisted columns on ground level is an upper
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Museum of Sculpture

The College is now occupied by the Museo Nacional de Escultura, with the finest collection of religious sculpture in wood (as well as religious paintings) in Spain and one of the most important
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Museum of Sculpture - Alonso Berruguete

Rooms I to III on the ground floor are given up to the works of Alonso Berruguete (1489-1561). Outstanding among them are a retablo carved for the church of San Benito in Valladolid (Room II) and the "Martyrdom of St Sebastian" in Room III.

Museum of Sculpture - Entombment

In Room XV is one of the great masterpieces of Spanish religious sculpture, Juan de Juni's "Entombment" (1544).

Museum of Sculpture - Gregorio Fernandez

Rooms IV and V, reached at the end of the tour, contain works by Gregorio Fernández (1566- 1636), including a fine "Pietà". Room V also has a picture by Zurbarán ("Santa Faz", 1658).

Museum of Sculpture - Pedro de Mena

Room XXI is mainly devoted to works by Pedro de Mena (1628-88), including a "Mary Magdalene" of 1664.

Museum of Sculpture - Room X

From Room III a staircase leads up to the first floor, on which Room X is of particular interest. It contains a five-part retablo of the Passion by an unknown Flemish artist of the 15th century,
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Museum of Sculpture - San Benito Choir-Stalls

This large room is almost completely taken up by the magnificent choir-stalls from the church of San Benito (1525-29).
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