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Ávila is a Spanish fortified city located in the autonomous community of Castile and León, and is the capital of the Province of Ávila.

It is sometimes called the Town of Stones and Saints, and it claims that it is one of the towns with the highest number of Romanesque and Gothic churches per capita in Spain. It has complete and prominent medieval town walls, built in the Romanesque style; writer José Martínez Ruiz, in his book El alma castellana, described it as «perhaps the most 16th-century town in Spain». The town is also known as Ávila de los Caballeros, Ávila del Rey and Ávila de los Leales, each of these epithets being present in the town standard.

Orson Welles once named Ávila as the place in which he would most desire to live, calling it a «strange, tragic place». Various scenes of his 1965 film Chimes at Midnight were filmed in the town.