Pesquera de Ebro

A small Burgos village whose towers, Romanesque church portal, and declared historic quarter preserve the deep imprint of a powerful medieval dynasty.

A hilltop village in Burgos province where a national-monument castle, noble stone mansions bearing heraldic shields, and a small medieval rock-cut necropolis preserve the layers of Old Castile in one tight valley.

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 salt-making town since before the Romans, its medieval walls, gated streets, and hilltop castle all built to guard one of the most coveted resources in northern Castile.

A small Burgos village whose entire historic centre has been declared a protected monument, its coats of arms, Gothic church, and fortified family towers tracing the deep roots of a Castilian noble lineage.

The former seat of the powerful Velasco lords, Medina de Pomar rises above the Las Merindades comarca of Burgos with a fortified castle-museum, a seven-century-old Clarisas monastery, and a medieval old town declared a national Historic-Artistic Monument.

A Castilian hill town in Burgos shaped by a thousand years of monastery, medieval charter, and royal burial, where a great Benedictine abbey still anchors streets that once drew counts, kings, and a thriving Jewish community.

A small Cantabrian village on the upper Ebro where a Romanesque ensemble and traces of a Roman road mark centuries of continuous settlement.