(ANSA) – MADRID, 07 APR – It has remained hidden for centuries and has recently emerged, under a busy street in the center of Valladolid, partly covered by a bank branch: it is the first tomb of Christopher Columbus, according to what was claimed by historian Marcial Castro and the architect Juan Luiz Saiz, who today presented the conclusions of their studies on the subject at the Naval Museum of Madrid.
Castro explained that there was some scant information about the possibility that the remains of the famous Genoese explorer, currently buried in Seville, were initially found in a chapel located inside the convent of San Francisco in Valladolid, then the seat of the court of Ferdinand the Catholic and city where Columbus died in 1506.
However, in the course of excavations carried out by the municipality of the Spanish city for other reasons, some parts of a convent have recently come to light and starting from there, it has been possible to reconstruct the exact location of the chapel in which, apparently, it had initially been the admiral is buried, as reported by Efe.
A hypothesis confirmed thanks to analyzes conducted with the georadar method and the comparison with existing documents, explained Saiz.
The authors of the study then created a virtual reconstruction of the convent, which allows you to imagine what the convent of San Francisco was like at the time. “There will be no definitive confirmation until excavations are carried out, but it seems to us a very well founded hypothesis, at 80%,” said Saiz.
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Source: Ansa
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