El Mirador de Almanzor

Visit Calatañazor is to enter a thousand books a year, as aptly expressed the writer Julián Marías. Today, the Villa offers visitors its medieval layout miraculously preserved through the centuries and its admirable example of vernacular architecture, with its buildings constructed of stone, adobe and wood from juniper chimneys topped by airy You pine grove.

The precedent must be sought in Calatañazor Voluce, Celtiberian town of origin settled in the III century BC on a nearby hill, and inhabited until inninterrumpidamente V century AD, and whose ruins can be seen today. The strategic importance of the site reached its peak in the Middle Ages, to be replanted in the late eleventh century by Christians.A few years earlier, in 1002, legend has it that the Arab leader Almanzor was defeated in a fierce battle that took place in the so-called Valley of Blood, immense plain extending to the foot of the Villa. From that time dates his name, CALAT AM Nasur in Arabic Castle Vultures.

As a persistence of the past, today you can still admire the majestic flight of these birds crowning Castle. In 1460 he became head of Community Villa and Land, which came to depend merino eighteen villages, with their lord the Adelantado of Castile D. Juan de Padilla. Depopulation which affected all Soria province along the twentieth century also alcancó to Calatañazor, with its ruinous consequences, but in recent years, thanks to institutional support and initiative private, the Villa has begun a process of reconstruction with complete fidelity to its architectural past.

In 1962 it was declared a Historic Artistic.

• The Walls: encircle the entire city center and kept in good part. In his time had three doors. Today you can admire the smallest of them, one which, in the words of Gerardo Diego, is so close that no rider enters a Moor.

• The Castle: Crown the top of the town, contributing to its characteristic profile of stone boat stranded on top of a cliff. XIV century. I extinguished its role as a defensive bulwark, was later used as a civilian residence.

• Roll: The roll, or pillory, is the fifteenth century. On the one hand served to publicly expose wrongdoers. On the other, was a memorial granting Villazgo, symbolizing the authority of D. Juan de Padilla.

• Church of Our Lady of the Castle: Begun in the twelfth century and completed in the sixteenth.Stresses its principal, Romanesque door arch panels with Arabic, unused item in Romanesque art. The interior is spacious and sleek. Interesting stone baptismal font, coarsely filigree, the eleventh century. Stunning Cristo del Amparo, size S. XV. The majestic main altar is the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in it the Romanesque carving of Santa María del Castillo blanket. It is worth visiting the museum located in the parish vestry, which holds interesting tables of the sixteenth century, paintings, sculptures, a valuable processional organ with wooden pipes and expressive Dolorosa Flemish School. Valuable silver monstrance is conserved, besides codices, privileges and documents relating to the remarkable history of the town.

• Ermita de la Soledad: Situated at the entrance of the town, outside the walls. Romanesque building, perfectly restored. Entrance door with three Archivolts.

• Ermita de San Juan Bautista: Situated in the valley, at the foot of the walls. Today only the walls and Romanesque doorway with arch.

• Medieval Necropolis: Century X. Coffin extramural situated at the foot of Castle. They anthropomorphic form and are emptied into a large limestone.
Ethnographic Museum: Located on Royal Street. Utensils, tools and objects relating to rural and domestic life of the town in ancient times.

Surrounding attractions:

• Voluce Ruins: Located on top of a nearby hill, preserved remains of the original village.

• Abioncillo: Calatañazor hamlet, located 3 miles from the Villa. Typical architecture of the region, carefully reconstructed. Currently works as a learning village, visited by students from all over Europe.

• Roman road: the remains of the ancient Roman road along the N-122.

• The Sabinar Calatañazor: 3 kilometer. The oldest set of junipers in Europe, with specimens reaching 300 years old.

• The Fuentona (birth Abión river): 7 miles in addressing Muriel de la Fuente. One of the most idyllic locations across the province with lush vegetation.

• Natural Park Rio Lobos Canyon.

• Laguna Negra.

NI from madrid to km 103 and follow signs for Soria
from Basque country through Pamplona, ​​Burgos I logroñoo
from barcelona by soria zaragoza and N 122

Arrival: 13.00 Departure: 12.00

on weekends the minimum stay is two days, you can make reservations for Saturday with five days in advance of the rest days can be booked at any time
we asked to reserve the number of a credit card

Cancellations can be made 5 days without charge
with less than 5 days will be charged 25% booking cancellation or reservation to another date remains
booking changes can be made without spending at least 3 days before arrival

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