Heritage towns in Palencia
13 towns in this province.
Home to San Martín de Tours, one of the purest Romanesque churches in Europe, on the Palencia stretch of the Camino de Santiago.
A quiet Castilian town on the Palencia plain, shaped by two names, two medieval churches, and the slow water of the Canal de Castilla beside a restored lagoon.
A walled medieval town on the Palencia plain, where Gothic churches, a Mudéjar royal palace, and more than two kilometres of underground wine galleries survive largely intact.
A walled medieval town in Palencia where six of the original seven gates still stand, a Premonstratensian monastery anchors the old centre, and a hilltop castle overlooks the Pisuerga river.
A prosperous medieval town on the Palencia stretch of the Camino de Santiago, Carrión de los Condes preserves two outstanding Romanesque churches, a monastery with a Renaissance cloister, and fragments of its old walls.
A walled medieval town in Palencia's Tierra de Campos, dominated by a castle and a collegiate church whose tower the locals call the Giralda of the Plains, declared a historic monument and one of Spain's most beautiful villages.
A Castilian farming town in Palencia where six churches once served three thousand souls, and works by Pedro Berruguete still hang in the converted church that now serves as its sacred art museum.
Sitting at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Carrión rivers in Palencia, Dueñas guards a surviving medieval gateway, a Roman mosaic in its soil, and a history that stretches from Bronze Age settlements to the old royal road to Burgos.
Perched above the rivers Arlanza and Arlanzón in Palencia, this walled medieval town preserves a Gothic gateway, a ruined castle, and a history stretching from Celtiberian resistance to the last journey of Emperor Charles V.
A town of counts and kings in the Palencia meseta, where a ruined medieval castle still stands above a place old enough to have fought Rome — and where the first recorded bullfight in Spanish history took place in 1128.
The provincial capital of Palencia carries layers from Celtiberian settlement through Visigothic royal court to medieval kingdom, and stands today as home to one of Spain's largest Gothic cathedrals and a Christ statue counted among the world's tallest.
A walled Castilian town on the Palencia meseta where a Gothic parish church, a Romanesque castle chapel, and traces of a medieval monastery still mark the outline of a place that once hosted kings and signed treaties.
One of the oldest documented towns in Palencia, Cervera de Pisuerga sits where mountain rivers meet, its porticoed plaza, noble palaces, and a Gothic church holding a masterpiece of Flemish painting still intact after twelve centuries of recorded history.