Zamora

Zamora, a very ancient town of Spain, capita of a province, is on the Douro, 150 miles NW. of Madrid by rail. It is the see of a bishop suffragan of Santiago. Zamora was of great importance in the Moorish times, was strongly fortified, and has many interesting remains of mediæval architecture. The cathedral is a late Romanesque edifice. There are some linen and woollen manufactures. It has never recovered the devastations of the French (1808-9). Pop. 15,209.