On the other side of the Urueña wall you can see the Montes Torozos that Miguel Delibes portrayed in "Diario de un cazador" (1955).

From the fortification to the inside, the streets of the Valladolid municipality bear witness to the passage of time, although it seems to have stopped there. It has been more than a decade that this beautiful Castilian town added a new attraction, becoming the only Villa del Libro in Spain, a project that survives thanks to the heroic work, among others, of the booksellers who established their businesses there and the commitment of the Jorge Guillén Foundation, which manages the E-Lea Center, and that of the ethnographer Joaquín Díaz.

At the beginning of summer and despite the adverse circumstances derived from the pandemic, the municipality insisted on joining the commemoration of the Centenario Delibes, the anniversary that commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Valladolid author. He does so with exhibitions that rescue, on the one hand, the most charismatic characters in his novels, and on the other, those terms that the writer insisted on perpetuating in his works, knowing that they were destined to disappear.

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