Salas de los Barrios

Deep in the Aquilian mountains of León, a mozarabic church founded by a hermit-bishop stands at the heart of a slate-roofed village that has changed little since the Middle Ages.

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 quiet León village with two substantial baroque and neoclassical churches, one sheltering a Gothic Christ and one of Spain's oldest brotherhoods, active since before 1522.

A quiet León village with two substantial baroque and neoclassical churches, one sheltering a Gothic Christ and one of Spain's oldest brotherhoods, active since before 1522.

A village on the Camino Francés in León where pilgrims have crossed the same seven-arched Romanesque bridge over the Meruelo river since the Middle Ages, entering a street of stone manor houses that leads to a baroque sanctuary still holding a medieval pietà.

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.

Deep in the Aquilian mountains of León, a mozarabic church founded by a hermit-bishop stands at the heart of a slate-roofed village that has changed little since the Middle Ages.

A town in the Boeza valley of León where Roman roads, medieval parishes, and the Camino de Santiago converge at a crossroads that has drawn travellers for two thousand years.

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.

A mountain municipality in León, sitting above 1,200 metres in the valleys between the Gistredo and Los Cilleros ranges, with roots stretching from Asturian hill forts through Roman gold mining to medieval Leonese repopulation.

A small settlement in León's El Bierzo comarca, carrying one of the longest place names in all of Spain.

A remote mountain village in the Leonese Ancares, known for its exceptional cluster of pallozas — ancient oval stone-and-thatch dwellings whose design reaches back to the pre-Roman hillforts of the region.

A small León village split across two hilltops, its very name rooted in the Latin word for twins and its two neighbourhoods divided by an ancient road.

A pre-Roman mountain village in Lugo's Sierra de Ancares, its tight cluster of ancient pallozas and stone storehouses preserved so intact it earned protected status as early as 1931.

A fortified hilltop village of slate and granite near the Portuguese border, its castle and walled streets rising above the rivers at the gateway to Lake Sanabria.