Another intellectual focus of the city was The Church of Saint Steven, which reached its height in the 15 th and 16 th centuries. Bartolomé de las Casas, Domingo de Soto and Francisco de Vitoria spent a period of time living in it, and Christopher Columbus went there in search of support for his voyage, which was granted to him after an interview with the Catholic Kings in this very place, the Church of the Dominicans.