DESTINATION CASTILE AND LEON
Castile and Leon, known formally as the Community of Castile and Leon is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It was constructed from Old Castile and Leon in 1983. The autonomous community of Castile and Leon is the largest in Spain and one of the largest subdvisions in the European Union.
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AQUEDUCT OF SEGOVIA
The Aqueduct of Segovia (or the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms. As the aqueduct lacks a legible inscription, the date of construction cannot be definitively determined ...
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DISCOVER ASTORGA
Astorga was originally a Celtic settlement which later become one of the Roman strongholds in the region they called Asturica. The Roman city was founded in 14 BC, being entitled by Emperor Octavian as Asturica Augusta. Ruins of Roman baths are still visible today. The walls of the town were built at the time of Ancient Rome. Asturica was the main city in the north-west ...
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DISCOVER AVILA
In pre-Roman times (5th century BC), Avila was inhabited by the Vettones, who called it Obila (High Mountain) and had here one of their strongest fortresses. Ávila may have been the ancient town known as Abula, mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geographia (II 6, 60) as being located in the Iberian region of Bastetania ...
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DISCOVER BURGOS
Early humans occupied sites around Burgos as early as 800,000 years ago. When the Romans took possession of what is now the province of Burgos the site had been a Celtiberian city. In Roman times it belonged to Hispania Citerior and then to Hispania Tarraconensis. In the 5th century the Visigoths drove back the Suebi, then the Arabs occupied almost all of Castile ...
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CASTLE OF LA MOTA
The Castle of the La Mota or Castillo de La Mota is a reconstructed medieval fortress, located in the town of Medina del Campo, province of Valladolid, Spain. It is so named because of its location on an elevated hill, a mota, from where it dominates the town and surrounding land. The adjacent town came to be surrounded by an expanding series of walls in subsequent years ...
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LAS MEDULAS
Las Médulas Cultural Landscape is listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites. The spectacular landscape of Las Médulas resulted from the Ruina Montium, a Roman mining technique described by Pliny the Elder in 77 AD consisted of undermining the mountain with large quantities of water supplied by at least seven long aqueducts tapping the rivers ...
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DISCOVER LEON
León was founded in the 1st century BC by the Roman legion Legio VI Victrix. In 68 AD Legio VII Gemina created a permanent military camp, which was the origin of a later city. Its modern name is derived from the city's Latin name Legio, which itself derives from the Roman legion recruited from the Iberians by Galba ...
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DISCOVER SALAMANCA
Salamanca was founded in the pre-Ancient Rome period by the Vacceos, a Celtic tribe, as one of a pair of forts to defend their territory near the Duero river. In the third century BCE, Hannibal laid siege to the city. With the fall of the Carthaginians to the Romans, the city of Helmantica, as it was known, began to take more importance as a commercial hub ...
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DISCOVER SEGOVIA
The old city of Segovia is spectacularly situated atop a long, narrow promontory. It contains a wealth of monuments, including the cathedral, a famous ancient Roman aqueduct, the Alcazar, and various churches built in the Romanesque style including San Esteban, San Martin, and San Millan. Segovia is situated north of Madrid, 35 minutes by train ...
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DISCOVER VALLADOLID
Valladolid was captured from the Moors in the 10th century, being a small village improved by count Pedro Ansurez in the 11th century; by the 15th century it was the residence of the kings of Castile and remained the capital of the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when Philip II, born here, moved the capital to Madrid ...
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THE VERRACOS
The verracos are granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals that are to be found in the west of the Iberian meseta - - in the Spanish provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora, but also in the north of Portugal and Galicia. Over 400 have been identified. The sculptures are sometimes called verracos de piedra (pigs of stone) to distinguish them from live animals ...
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