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Soria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. The municipality had a population of 35,112 in 2002 - nearly 40% of the population of the province. Categories: Spain geography stubs | Castile-Leon | Provinces of Spain ...
Autonomous communities of Spain. ...
Capital Valladolid Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 1st 94,223 km² 18,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 6th 2,480,369 5. ...
Situated on the Rio Duero in the east of the autonomous community, the city is noted for its walls and a number of architecturally distinctive churches. These include the Plateresque Concatedral de San Pedro and its cloister, the convent church of Santo Domingo, and the unique architectural mix of the ruined cloisters of San Juan de Duero, on the other side of the river from the old town. View of the river mouth from Portos Crystal Palace Gardens, facing West Douro (Latin Durius, Spanish Duero, Portuguese Douro) is one of the major rivers of Portugal and Spain, flowing from its source near Soria across central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Oporto. ...
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 archeological remains of this site. Numantia was a town in Hispania (modern-day Spain), which for a long time resisted conquest by Romans. ...
The Celtiberians dwelt in the Iberian Peninsula and spoke a Celtic language. ...
Scipio (plural, Scipiones) is a Roman cognomen used by a branch of the Cornelii family. ...
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