Several years of research, a plan by a Franciscan monk and confirmation of a georadar,Key tools for pinpointing the exact location of the first burial Christopher Columbus in Valladolid.
The outcome of the investigations advanced this Wednesday and was presented in full this Thursday. Madrid Maritime Museum, as a result of the fact that the first tomb of the sailor will be found in the center of Valladolid, in a commercial artery on Constitución street. Two-thirds of the chapel would be on the street, the rest below where a bank stands today.
“A survey is necessary but the georadar marks the area, which is pretty high certainty. There doesn’t seem to be any other plausible possibility.“, explained architect Juan Luis Sanz, who led the project together with historian Marcial Castro.
The investigation arose as a result of another investigation in 2005, which Castro identified as genetic. the remains of the discoverer.
Opening the tomb now located in Seville Cathedral gold, silver, coal, lead, brick and mortar, and they found it interesting to explore the exact location of his first burial to see if the remains have any relation.
“Surprisingly, we not only found the site, we also found the location of the chapel. It wasn’t easy but it was very nicesaid Castro.
Columbus died in Valladolid in 1506. Catholic Ferdinand Court. He explained that he was buried in the city’s San Francisco convent, possibly without the knowledge of the chapel’s owners.
The explorer’s remains would travel years later to Cartuja de Sevilla, from there to the Dominican Republic and Havana, and then return to Seville, where they are today.
Researchers recreated san francisco convent, disappeared today and is located very close to the Plaza Mayor in Valladolid.
The field’s hypothesis emerged in 2005, but there was a lack of data to confirm. In 2020, Valladolid City Council conducted an excavation to look for the skeletal remains of “Red” Hugh O’Donnell, a former Irish rebel prince, and found a wall from one of the monastery’s chapels. With these data, georadar confirmed the rest of the walls.
The investigation revealed that the chapels of other famous figures of the Spanish Renaissance would also be located on the same street: Fray Antonio de Guevara (1451-1602), bishop of Mondoñedo and then a very important writer, and Hernando de Cabezón, organist of the king (1541-1602).
“Digging in the area is extraordinarily expensive. There seems to be something metallic in the middle of the chapel that caught our attention. “I have no doubt that any time they do a job, they will get the opportunity to dig,” Castro said.