Colegio de San Gregorio
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The Colegio de San Gregorio is an Isabelline style building located in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain, it was formerly a college and now is housing the National Museum of Sculpture
View of the main facade
The heraldic crown coronet of the college's founder Alonso de Burgos was the fleur-de-lis, this is spread through most of the building (image of the Monumental staircase).
Main facade of the Colegio de San Gregorio, circa 1850, by Jenaro Pérez Villaamil
Main facade of the Colegio de San Gregorio, circa 1865, by Francesc Parcerisa
Valladolid debate
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The Valladolid debate was the first public debate in European history to discuss the morality, rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in
Colegio de San Gregorio
…like Bartolomé de las Casas, Melchor Cano, Luis de Granada or Francisco de Vitoria, and in which took place in 1550–1551, for example, the famous Valladolid debate, in which Friar Bartolomé de las Casas defended the indigenous peoples of the America's rights, against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda supporter of the rights…
"Wild Men" depicted on the facade of the Colegio de San Gregorio
Church of San Pablo, adjacent to Colegio de San Gregorio.
Bartolomé de las Casas was the principal defender of the Indians in the Junta of Valladolid
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, supporter of the war "jousts" against the Indigenous people