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Holiday in Castile and Leon.

Provinces in Castile and Leon : Avila, Burgos, Leon, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora

Capital of Castile and Leon : Valladolid


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Camping & Caravanning Castila-Léon

  Eurocampings   -   ACSI Camping Guide

  Camping & Caravaning en Espana

Holiday Homes / Self catering

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  Spanish-Web.com   -   Self Catering Holiday Rentals
Find your Villa, Apartment or Country House to Rent

Hotels Castile and Leon

  Booking   -   Hotels in Castile and Leon   -   Hotel Guide Castile and Leon
Popular destinations in Castile and Leon : Salamanca, Burgos, Valladolid, Segovia, Ávila, León, Aranda de Duero, Rubena, Cogollos, Santo Tomé del Puerto, Briviesca, Mozárbez.

 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

  Booking   -   Hotels in Salamanca   -   Hotel Guide Salamanca

  Booking   -   Hotels in Valladolid   -   Hotel Guide Valladolid

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

Rural tourism is one of the biggest attractions in Castilla y León. Rural accommodation allows you to gain direct contact with the area's people, their culture, traditions, work and natural environment.

  Cosmos Tourama    -   Douro River [ Salamanca ]
Enjoy a relaxing cruise through stunningly beautiful countryside, vine steeped terraces and traditional villages.
Flowing across Spain and northern Portugal, the Douro is one of Europe's lesser-known but most picturesque rivers.

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  Martin Randall, London
The region occupies much of the Meseta, the vast and austere plateau in the centre of the Iberian peninsula. Here are many of Spain's finest cities, buildings and works of art. Lovers of Romanesque will feel particularly satisfied for there are many excellent examples of the style. Great Gothic churches are another magnificent feature, the cathedrals at León, Burgos, Segovia, Salamanca among them. French, German and English influences are to be found, though the end result is always unmistakably Spanish.
As well as the prominent cities, they include a number of lesser-known places, all strikingly attractive, many with outstanding buildings or works of art, all barely visited by tourists.

Travel Guides Castile and Leon / Related books

Books / Guides about Castilla y Leon at Amazon 

  Spain's Segovia, Salamanca & Castilla y León
Kelly Lipscomb (Author)
With the northern half of the Spanish Meseta all its own, this is unmistakably big sky territory. It is the largest autonomous region in Spain, covering a full one-fifth of the country's territory, and is larger than some EU countries, including neighboring Portugal. The Spaniards born in this sweeping mosaic of tableland hemmed by mountains are credited with speaking the purest Castellano tongue. They gravitate toward the major cities of the region, Burgos ,Valladolid, León and Salamanca, leaving vast tracts of land empty of all but shepherds and barley growers. They pray in two of the country's three greatest Gothic cathedrals in León and Burgos, study at one of the world's oldest and most influential universities in Salamanca, cast for five-pound trout in the Río Duero and excavate the remains of Europe's oldest inhabitants in the Sierra de Atapuerca.  The stereotypes of Castilla y León paint but a small picture of this vast realm. Pilgrims have trudged along the main route of the Camino de Santiago since the ninth century, a period when Christian Spain was in the midst of consolidating its forces to drive the Moors from the peninsula. Burgos would serve as the capital of the crown during the early Reconquest and eventually would be joined with the separate kingdom of León in furthering the cause.
File Size: 3677 KB; Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited; Publisher: Hunter Publishing (10 Nov 2010); Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.; Language English; ASIN: B004BSGGEG.

  DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain
Maria Betlejewska (Editor)
Paperback: 272 pages; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1 May 2009); ISBN 9781405338837; *ASIN: 1405338830.

  St. Teresa of Avila: Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom
Mirabai Starr (Author)
The kernel of Teresa's mystical thought throughout all her writings is the ascent of the soul in four stages.
Hardcover: 112 pages; Publisher: Sounds True Inc.,U.S. (31 Jan 2008); ISBN-10: 1591796466; ISBN-13: 978-1591796466.

Transportation / How do I travel to Castile and Leon

  Valladolid airport of Villanubla
Handles both domestic and international traffic.
  León Airport [ also known as Virgen del Camino ]
  Salamanca Airport [ also known as Matacán ]
Domestic flights and international charter flights.
  Burgos Airport [ also known as Villafría ]

  Madrid Airport [ Barajas ]

See Aena for information about Spanish airports.

 
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  Tourist board Castille and León [ english language ]

  Valladolid City   -   Capital of Castile y Leon   -   Ayuntamiento de Valladolid
Valladolid was captured from the Moors in the 10th century; by the 15th century it was the residence of the kings of Castile and remained the capital of the Kingdom of Spain until 1531, when Philip II moved the capital to Madrid.
Famous for its beautiful gardens and the solemnity and grace of its Holy Week celebrations.
Its Sculpture Museum, with an incomparable collection of the works of the greatest Spanish artists from the 16th and 17th centuries, including Berruguete, is one the most important in the country.

  Avila Province   -   Diputación Provincial de Ávila 
  Burgos   -   Diputación Provincial de Burgos
  Leon   -   Diputation de Leon
  Palencia   -   Diputación de Palencia
The region has treasures, from the Neolithic to Renaissance, but they take some hunting down: rock tombs and barrows; Roman remains including the largest mosaics in Europe at Olmeda; the ancient church of Olleros de Pisuerga cut into the solid rock; the convent of San Andres de Arroyo with its exquisite Cistercian cloister.
  Salamanca   -   Diputacion de Salamanca   -   Tourism in the province of Salamanca
Discover its nature, art& Culture, routes, districts, active tourism and more.
  Segovia   -   Diputación Provincial de Segovia
  Soria   -  Diputación Provincial de Soria
  Valladolid Province   -   Diputacion de Valladolid 
  Zamora   -   Diputación Provincial de Zamora

  Avila City   -   Ayuntamiento de Ávila   -   Avila Turismo
Birthplace of St. Theresa of Jesus; old medieval walls; a fortification built in Romanesque times; Basilica of Saint Vincent.
  Burgos   -   Ayuntomiente de Burgos   -   Guia Burgos [ Burgos Guide ]
  Leon   -   former capital city   -   Ayuntomiento de Leon
The city of León was founded by the Roman Seventh Legion.
  Lerma
The town of Lerma in the province of Burgos, formerly the seat of a duke, is a prominent tourist destination.
  Palencia   -   Ayuntamiento de Palencia   -   Palencia Turismo
El Románico Norte [ Una de las zonas con más y mejores ejemplos del románico en España ], El Románico del Sur, en torno al Valle del Cerrato [ Obligado punto de arranque es la Cripta de la Catedral de Palencia, primer vestigio del románico de la región ], El Camino de Santiago a su paso por Palencia [ Cruza toda la provincia de este a oeste: Belleza del paisaje, arte e historia ], Ruta de Carlos V [ Carlos V pasó cuatro veces por tierras palentinas y en tres de ellas descansó en Palencia ]
  Salamanca City   -   Ayuntamiento de Salamanca   -   Tourism Salamanca
Salamanca is the university city by excellence, known in the whole world for this and for its artistic richness: cathedrals, palaces, churches... of artistic styles such as romanesque, gothic, plateresque y barroque.
  Segovia   -   Ayuntamiento de Segovia 
Has important treasures from different ages, such as several precious Romanesque churches, a large Gothic cathedral and the splendid Alcazar, a Moorish fortress that has incorporated elements from diverse epochs.
  Soria   -   at the river Duero   -   Ayuntamiento de Soria   -   of Celt Iberian origin
Many Romanesque structures, such as the Church of Santo Domingo and Cloister of San Juan de Duero, from the 12-13th Centuries.
  Zamora   -   Ayuntamiento de Zamora   -   Ciudad del Romanico
City with a medieval flavour, artistically marked by the Romanesque Style, of which it has preserved nearly a dozen churches and a magnificent cathedral, topped by a strange Byzantine dome.

Castile-Leon contains several UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The Way of Saint James, The Gothic-style cathedral of Burgos, Old city and aqueduct of Segovia, Old city and wall of Ávila, Old city of Salamanca, Las Médulas in the province of León: Roman gold mines, Archaeological deposits of Atapuerca, near the city of Burgos, where fossils of the one of the earliest known hominids in Europe have been found.

Castile and León has numerous castles.

  Castillos de Soria
Todas las fortificaciones de la provincia de Soria. Historia, rutas y lugares.
  El Camino de Santiago   -    The Way of Saint James
The pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela passes through the provinces of Burgos, Palencia, and León.
  Ribera del Duero   -   one of the best wine-producing regions in the world

  News from Castille-Leon   -   Diario de Burgos
  Press   -   Diario de Leon 
  Press   -   El Adelantado de Segovia
  Press   -   El Adelante de Salamanca
  Press   -   La Opinion de Zamora
  Press   -   Tribuna de Salamanca
  University of Avila   -   Universidad Católica de Avila
  University of Burgos   -   Universidad de Burgos
  University of Leon   -   Universidad de León 
  University of Salamanca   -   Universidad de Salamanca
  University of Valladolid 

Cuisine   -   Recipes Castile Leon

Castilla-Leon is best known for its roast suckling pig and lamb.

  Castilla-Leon, modern cuisine, roasts and much more

  Wines in Castille-Leon
Cigales, Bierzo, Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Toro [ all with Denomination of Origin ].

History of Castile-Leon

The region is formed by the union of two ancient kingdoms: Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León, several times separated and reunited in the Middle Ages.

  Kingdom of Castile   -   Wikipedia   -   A former kingdom of Spain
Castile comprises the two regions of Old Castile in northwestern Spain, and New Castile in the center of the country...
  Kingdom of Leon   -   Wikipedia
In 913 an independent Kingdom of León was founded when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of León. They turned their back on the unnavigable Atlantic, infested with Vikings and sea monsters, and settled in the meseta, the high tableland of central Spain...
  Legend of Santiago
Legend has it that, following the death of the Apostle Santiago, whose burial was forbidden in the land of Herod Agrippa, his followers placed his body on a boat which an Angel led to Finisterre Hispano. This legend has been repeatedly backed by the Christian church.
Only at the time of the Reconquista did people begin to talk about Galicia as the burial place of the Apostle Santiago. At the beginning of the 9th century, during the reign of Alfonso II El Casto of Asturias, Bishop Teodomiro discovered the remains of the Apostle, having followed a trail of stars in the sky. The Monarch ordered a church to be built in the place where the remains were found. This church later became the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela that we know today.
The news spread like wildfire beyond Spain and there was great rejoicing by believers and monarchs of the time. This discovery was the chance for spiritual reorganisation throughout Europe.

Music, Art & Culture, Events

Each valley, town or city will surprise you with its charm, its tales and adventures of knights and maidens, dragons and princesses, saints and martyrs whose feats have been handed down, mouth to mouth.

  Biblioteca Publica de Segovia
  Fundación Municipal de Cultura [ Valladolid ]
  Pedro Berruguete   -   first Renaissance Painter of the Kingdom of Castile
  Saint Teresa of Avila [ March 28, 1515 – October 4, 1582 ]
Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. See Wikipedia.

The passing of the seasons, the harvests, the calendar of saints' days and the commemoration of historical events provide a range of cultural activities that seems to go from strength to strength as time goes by. Fiestas demonstrates the hospitality and openness of the people of Castilla y León.

Web Portals / Castile Leon Directories

  Acercate a Palencia
Primera ciudad universitaria por excelencia, ciudad de oro, de palacios y colegios mayores. El viajero encontrará en Palencia y todas sus comarcas, el lugar ideal para aprovechar el fin de semana o pasar unas vacaciones y disfrutar de unos inolvidables días de descanso en cualquier época del año. Podrá elegir un destino o entre varios diferentes. Desde la Tierra de Campos hasta las Montañas que superan los 2.500 metros; desde los valles hasta los Pantanos y Embalses, el Camino de Santiago y el Canal de Castilla la mayor concentración de Románico de Europa, la provincia ofrece una extraordinaria variedad de paisajes y un sinfín de alternativas relacionadas con el arte, la cultura y el contacto pleno con la Naturaleza.
  Avila.Net   -   Todo sobre Avila [ everything about Avila ]
  InfoSegovia.com   -   Todo Segovia está aquí [ everything about Segovia is here ]
  Palencia.com 
  Palencia Digital
  Soria y Más   -   El portal de actualidad de Soria de Editorial Sotabur noticias, cultura y libros.
  VallaWeb   -   Guia Online de Valladolid [ Online Guide Valladolid ]
  AboutSalamanca.com


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