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The grid layout that reached America

Briviesca, La Bureba, Burgos

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The grid layout that reached America

Curiosity · Briviesca, La Bureba, Burgos

Image of Briviesca, not of the place itself.

The orthogonal grid that earned the town the nickname of la bien trazada served as a model for the Catholic Monarchs when founding Santa Fe de Granada and, through it, for a good part of the cities founded in America.

Photo: ana (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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