Piornedo

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 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.

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

The only city in the world whose complete Roman walls still stand, Lugo holds three UNESCO World Heritage sites within its ancient perimeter — the walls themselves, its Romanesque cathedral, and the Primitive Way of Saint James.