Heritage towns in Burgos
8 towns in this province.
A long, thin town strung along a hillside under a ruined castle, and one of the quieter, more atmospheric stops on the Camino Francés.
Known as the cradle of Castile, this Arlanza-river village guards a rare 10th-century defensive tower and a timber-framed old town tied to Count Fernán González.
A Benedictine monastery town famed for its two-storey Romanesque cloister and the Gregorian chant of its monks, set in the quiet hills south of Burgos.
The Villa Ducal de Lerma: a planned Baroque town crowning a ridge above the Arlanza, built around one of Spain's grandest ducal palaces and arcaded plazas.
A hilltop castle keep watches over a near-perfect plaza of timbered houses and a Renaissance palace, deep in Burgos's Ribera del Duero wine country.
Perched on a rock above the Ebro river in Burgos province, Frías crowns its crag with a medieval castle, two surviving town gates, and streets of timber-framed houses that still hang from the cliff face.
The administrative capital of the ancient Siete Merindades of Castilla la Vieja, Villarcayo holds Gothic tombs, a tent-shaped modernist church, and the second most important historical archive in the province of Burgos.
A small Burgos town that once sat on the front line between Franco's Nationalist territory and the Republican regions of Cantabria and the Basque Country.