History and Culture

Just a few kilometres distant, the past stirs back into life at the Roman city of Clunia Sulpicia. Allow yourself to be moved by its Roman Theatre, carved directly into the living rock, which in its day ranked among the greatest of all ancient Hispania.

Eighteen kilometres from Aranda de Duero, the Monastery of Santa María de La Vid settles upon the right bank of the Duero with a presence that unites the Romanesque solidity of its origins, founded in the twelfth century by the Premonstratensian canons, with all that the centuries layered upon it in the ages that followed.

There are villages known for a single thing that turn out, upon closer acquaintance, to harbour a great deal more. Gumiel de Izán is one of them. What most people know is that it possesses a church which the National Geographic magazine once compared to the Treasury of Petra in Jordan, and that the article in question drew a flood of visitors to a temple previously frequented only by its six hundred and fifty neighbours.