Heritage towns in León

Where the Camino Francés meets Roman ruins and a fairy-tale Episcopal Palace by Gaudí, capital of the Maragatería and a city of richly layered history.

A green, slate-roofed Camino town where two rivers meet at the edge of Galicia, home to the Romanesque 'Door of Forgiveness' that absolved ailing pilgrims.

Dominated by a vast Templar castle above the meeting of two rivers, the capital of El Bierzo and a major waypoint on the Camino de Santiago.

A stone village in the León meseta whose identity was built by the maragato muleteers — merchants who once moved fish and provisions between Galicia and the Spanish interior along one of the peninsula's great trade corridors.