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Brittle Glories. Typical is Valladolid (pop. 158,000), a grey stone city on the Castilian plateau. Known to the 8th century Arab invaders as Belad Walid (Governor's Town), it was for 450 years the court of Spain's Christian kings. Ferdinand and Isabella were married there in 1469; Columbus died there in 1506; Cervantes probably wrote the first part of Don Quixote there. But its glories were brittle, and Valladolid faded into a shabby market center and rail junction...
...changed. Today Valladolid is a thriving, springing city, ringed with factories. Some 70 companies are moving into town, bringing an investment of $75 million and 8,200 new jobs. Great clusters of new brick apartments have risen from abandoned lots. The city's 14th century university has even started a new department: cinematography. "It's astounding that it could all have happened so fast," marvels local Development Boss Antonio Narro de Povar. "We're beginning to look like a little Madrid...
...than a lure for cinesnobs who like to see important movies before the public does. It can be the cause of ulcers and chronic hangover among bleary international delegates who traipse the circuit year after year, vying for palms, cups, lions and laurels at more than 100 festivals from Valladolid to Venice, from Karlovy Vary to Knokke-Le-Zoute. But it can also be the crackling excitement of the new cinema giving birth to authentic genius...
...Congo, a missionary can hand out excerpts from the Gospels printed on glossy paper in the Tshibula dialect and illustrated with grainy photographs of local scenes. In Valladolid, an illiterate Spaniard can hear a dramatic reading of Mark 5:21-43 played on a record. On the island of Mindoro, a Filipino farmer can scan a Bible in Tagalog...
Back & Forth. While in Spain, Goff also found that not one of the bones in Seville was duplicated in Ciudad Trujillo. His tentative conclusion: Columbus died in 1506 in Valladolid, Spain; his remains were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...