page_title: Soria
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Soria / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Español: Convento de Santa Clara (Soria)
context_page_description: Soria is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881, 43.7% of the provincial population. The municipality has a surface area of 271,77 km², with a density of 144.13 inhabitants/km². Situated at about 1063 metres above sea level, Soria is the second highest provincial capital in Spain.
  Although there are remains of settlements from the Iron Age and Celtiberian times, Soria itself enters history with its repopulation between 1109 and 1114, by the Aragonese king Alfonso I the Battler. A strategic enclave due to the struggles for territory between the kingdoms of Castile, Navarre and Aragon, Soria became part of Castile definitively in 1134, during the reign of Alfonso VII. In Soria was born Alfonso VIII, and Alfonso X had his court established when he received the offer to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. In Soria, the deposed king James IV of Mallorca died, and John I of Castile married.
context_section_description: Ecclesiastical
  Plateresque Concatedral de San Pedro, erected in the 12th-13th centuries, rebuilt in the 16th century, and its cloister.
  San Juan de Rabanera, Romanesque church from the 12th century
  San Polo, a former monastery of the Knights Templar. The churches of San Nicolás and San Ginés are from the same age.
  the Romanesque convent church of Santo Domingo (12th century)
  Nuestra Señora de la Mayor (16th century), with a Romanesque portal
  Iglesia del Espino (16th century)
  San Juan de Duero with its 12th century ruined cloisters located on the other side of the river from the old town.
  The sanctuaries of Ermita de San Saturio (18th century) and Ermita de la Soledad (17th century).
  The Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón (Hermitage of Our Lady of Miron), with a baroque/rococo interior, founded - according to legend - by Theodemar in the sixth century. Since September 2009 the building has been used by a Romanian Orthodox parish.
  Other
  The Renaissance Ayuntamiento (Town Hall, 16th century), in the Plaza Mayor (main square)
  Palacio de la Audiencia (theatre), from 1739
  Palacio de los condes de Gomara  (Judiciary Palace, 1592)
  remains of the medieval castle, commanding the town from the eponymous hill, and of the walls
  The Church of San Nicolás de Soria (Spanish: Iglesia de San Nicolás) is a ruined remnant of a Romanesque-style church. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962.
  A few kilometres north of the town are the ruins of Numantia, a Celtiberian town whose inhabitants destroyed it rather than let it fall to Scipio. In Soria is the Museo Numantino, devoted to the archaeological remains of this and other sites in the province.
caption: Santa Clara Convent, founded in 1224.
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