Heritage towns in Palencia

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.