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Birthplace of Ferdinand II of Aragon, this hilltop fortress town in Zaragoza province still wears its medieval skin — castle, walls, Romanesque crypt and Renaissance palaces stacked up the same rocky outcrop they have occupied for a thousand years.

A royal frontier town on the Camino de Santiago in Navarra, where medieval palaces line every street and one of the most complex Romanesque church facades in Spain stops travellers in their tracks.

A fortified Romanesque church crowns this hilltop village in Navarra, its battlemented towers and three ancient apses watching over the plains of the Ribera below.

A fortified Aragonese town set on a rocky outcrop above two rivers, its six Romanesque churches, castle, and medieval street plan standing largely unchanged since the twelfth century.

The royal palace of the Kings of Navarre rises above Olite's walled medieval streets, its towers and gardens once counted among the finest in Europe.

Artajona rises above the Navarrese plain behind medieval walls that enclose a Gothic church, a stone-arched fountain, and dolmens that predate any city in Spain.

A Pyrenean stone village in Huesca, Aragón, where narrow medieval passageways thread between ancient houses and bears still roam the surrounding mountains.