Heritage towns in Valladolid

A compact walled town on the edge of the Tierra de Campos plateau, now Spain's first 'book village,' its medieval ramparts wrapped around a warren of bookshops.

The City of the Admirals in the Tierra de Campos, its arcaded main street and soaring Gothic churches a legacy of wealth from the wool and grain trade.

Crowned by one of Spain's most dramatic castles — a long white ship of stone on a ridge — now home to the provincial Wine Museum in the heart of Ribera del Duero.

Sitting above the Duero on the old road between northwest Spain and the Castilian heartland, Tordesillas is where a treaty once divided the New World and where a queen spent forty-six years confined in a royal monastery.