The second lecture introduces the urban dynamics of Reconquista Christian fronts, meant to attract econom-ic and military powers from neighboring kingdoms and establish positions against main Muslim cities. Chris-tian new towns of this period were activators of the conflict and performed as complex symbolic structures charged with political and religious meaning. The second lecture introduces the urban dynamics of Recon-quista Christian fronts, meant to attract economic and military powers from neighboring kingdoms and es-tablish positions against main Muslim cities. Christian new towns of this period were activators of the conflict and performed as complex symbolic structures charged with political and religious meaning. For introducing this topic, we will discuss the essentials of grid urbanism and its impact in Medieval cities. Then we will pre-sent the origin of Aragonese Fueros, foral laws that gave a special status to singular towns and impulsed the creation of the first grid urbanism in the Spanish kingdoms. Then we will follow the advances of the kingdom of Aragon in the East coast of the Iberian Peninsula (Levante) and their invasion of the Balear Islands, as both processes bolstered the creation of a new kind of grid new town. In the third and fourth part, we will present the first experiments with grid urbanism in the kingdom of Castille, which began using it centuries later than Aragon. We will find them in Southern Spain, in the recently conquered territory of Seville and Cadiz and along the border with the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. We will explain what strategy did Castille used for the creation of new towns in the frontier, how their relationship with law and ideology was different from new towns in Aragon, and why this led to a much minor presence of grid cities in this kingdom. Finally, we will address some singular cases founded by king Alphonse X. Finally, we will present an exceptional case of a very particular Castillian grid town in northern Spain, far from the Andalusian frontier, that mixed Castillian and Aragonese traditions.
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