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Tomb of Fernando de Valdés Salas

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Tomb of Fernando de Valdés Salas

Monument · Salas, Oviedo, Asturias

Image of Salas, not of the place itself.

The alabaster tomb of Fernando de Valdés y Salas was carved between 1576 and 1582 on commission from the Duke of Alba, the work of the mannerist sculptor Pompeo Leoni, and is kept in the Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor de Salas, built by the inquisitor's parents, to which his body was moved after his death in Madrid in 1568. Valdés y Salas, born in Salas in 1483, was Inquisitor General between 1547 and 1566, president of the Consejo de Castilla and author of one of the most notorious indexes of prohibited books of his time; he also led the trial against Archbishop Bartolomé de Carranza. A patron of culture, he founded the Colegio de San Pelayo in Salamanca and promoted the creation of the University of Oviedo, which did not begin its activities until 1608, forty years after his death.

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