The Castilian Exhibit of 1859

Abstract

About of the middle of Nineteenth Century, Exhibitions were quite essential constituents in the cultural and economic european realms. Following foreign examples, as those of Great Britain and France, the celebrations of progress cult also proliferate in Spain. In our essay we analyse one of these fairs, the Exposición Castellana (Valladolid, 1859) whose success must be related with the economic awakening of the castilian Meseta just before the railway arrives, as well because it was the first time that a stammering and ingenious regionalism referred to the old kingdoms of León and Castilla was formulated.