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Show Don Quixote's Cradle City The past of Valladolid seems to he the chief attraction in the present. Here Columbus died .and Philip the Second was born. Here Cervantes published "Don Quixote," and his plays still hold the stage in the fa- mous old Teatro de Calderou. Here ; was laid the memorable scene of the meeting of Ferdinand and Isabella, as j well as the romantic tragedy of Blanche of Navarre. Here lived L'ai- I deron, the great Spanish d-aun'Ust, ! also the fanatic Torquemad-, who j created the Inquisition tribunal. Val- j ladolid was long the city of the auto i de fe, which tried to save the souls of men by destroying their bodies. ' Washington Star. j |