Santiago Millas

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.

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.

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 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.

A village in the Bierzo region of León where the old Leonese language is still spoken in daily life.

Once the capital of a medieval kingdom and host to Europe's first parliamentary assembly, León sits at the crossroads of Castilla y León where Roman walls still stand and the Camino de Santiago passes through the old city.

A small Zamoran hill town whose roots go back to the Iron Age, sitting beside a national hunting reserve in the Sierra de la Culebra and still marked by the ancient Roman road that once linked Braga to Astorga.