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and the Plaza de la Universidad, near the University Of Valladolid ]] Valladolid (The most probable origin of the term is Latin: VALLIS, "Valley"; and Celtic: TOLITUM, "place of in central Spain , upon the Rio Pisuerga and within the Ribera Del Duero region. It is the capital of the Province Of Valladolid and of the Autonomous Community of Castile-Leon , therefore is part of the historical region of Castile . As of the 2004 census, the population of the city of Valladolid proper was 321,713, and the population of the entire urban area was estimated to be near 400,000. It is also popularly called ''Pucela'', a nickname whose origin is not clear. Valladolid was captured from the Moors in the 10th Century , being a small village improved by count Pedro Ansúrez in the 11th Century ; by the 15th Century it was the residence of the Kings Of Castile and remained the capital of the Spain until 1561 , when Philip II moved the capital to Madrid . (It became the capital once again from 1600 to 1606 .) The city nonetheless boasts few architectural manifestations of its former glory. Some monuments include the unfinished cathedral, the church of Santa Maria la Antigua, the Plaza Mayor (the template for that of Madrid and of future main squares in the Spanish-speaking world), the National Sculpture Museum, next to the church of Saint Paul, which includes Spain's greatest collections of polychrome wood sculptures, and the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid, whose façade is one of the few surviving works by Narciso Tomei , the same artist who did the transparente in Toledo Cathedral . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of Miguel De Cervantes is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral Of Valladolid was designed by Juan De Herrera , architect of El Escorial . Valladolid is an economic motor of the autonomous community, having an important automobile industry. There is an airport at nearby Villanubla, with connections to London -Stansted, Paris , Brussels - Charleroi , Lisbon , Barcelone and Vigo . ''Vallisoletanos'' (or ''pucelanos'') are reputed to speak the purest Spanish of all of Spain. However this reputation is largely undeserved as a majority of Vallisoletanos make glowing grammatical speech mistakes on a continuous basis. For example, the speech of Valladolid is characterized by Leísmo No Admitido (the use of pronoun ''le'' instead of ''lo'' for inanimate direct object; e.g., ''Cómetele todo'', "Eat it all"), Laísmo (the use of pronoun ''la'' instead of ''le'' for feminine indirect object; e.g., '''''La''' dije que viniera'', "I told her to come"), and the use of certain intransitive verbs as transitive (like using ''quedar'', "to stay", to mean ''dejar'', "to leave"; e.g., ''Tu chaqueta, ¿la '''quedas''' aquí?'', "Are you leaving your jacket here?"). Also, Yeísmo (the merging of the palatal lateral phoneme spelled ''ll'' into the palatal fricative phoneme spelled ''y'') is nowadays widespread in Valladolid city especially among the younger generations. While some of these speech mistakes can be encountered elsewhere throughout Spain, other are endemic to the Valladolid area (e. g. leísmo, use of intransitive verbs as transitive). Valladolid is also the city in which Christopher Columbus died in 1506 . DEMOGRAPHY
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