. . . la ciudad heroica. From Wikipedia: "Named after Valladolid, at the time the capital of Spain, the first Valladolid in Yucatán was established by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo's nephew on May 27, 1543. On March 24, 1545, Valladolid was moved to its current location, built atop a Maya town called Zaci or Zaci-Val, whose buildings were dismantled to reuse the stones to build the Spanish colonial town. Until the beginning of the 21st century, Valladolid was the third largest and most important city of the Yucatán Peninsula, (after Mérida and Campeche). It had a sizable well-to-do Criollo population, with a number of old Spanish style mansions in the old city. Valladolid was widely known under its nickname "The Sultana of the East"." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid,_Yucatán#Sights