Ávila

In the game's centuries those walls twice sheltered Castilians who defied their king. On 5 June 1465 rebel nobles gathered outside the city, deposed Henry IV in effigy and proclaimed his young half-brother Alfonso king, a ceremony its enemies mocked as the Farce of Ávila. In the summer of 1520 the rebel cities of the Comuneros held the first meeting of their Santa Junta here and drafted, in the cathedral, a perpetual law under which the cities would assemble every three years without needing the king's leave. Ávila's lasting fame, though, came from one of its daughters. Teresa de Cepeda, born here in 1515, left the Convent of the Incarnation in 1562 to found the small house of San José, the first of the Discalced Carmelite convents that her reform spread across Spain.