• Castle of Medinaceli

    Following the conquest of Valencia, El Cid’s wife and daughters were, according to El Cantar de Mío Cid, given escort by Álvar Fáñez and 165 knights as far as Medinac...

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  • Former collegiate church of Nuestra Señora del Mercado (Ex Colegiata), Berlanga de Duero

    National Monument since 1931. The collegiate church of Santa María del Mercado was built over the period of four years (1526-1530) by the architect Juan de Rasines with a Gothic-Renaissance st...

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  • Castle of Berlanga de Duero

    This 15th century castle was built in the Renaissance style over a 12th century structure, which, in turn, had been constructed re-using the walls of a 10th century Arab-Caliphate alcazaba. The hill o...

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  • Chapel of Virgen de la Calzada, Brías

    Heritage of Cultural Interest since 1996. On the exit towards Nogales, in the midst of a bucolic environment where a Roman road once passed through, are the ruins of a 12th-century chapel called Ermi...

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  • The Luzón range

    After the marriage between El Cid’s daughters and the Infantes de Carrión took place in Valencia, the newly-wed returned to Castile. Avengalbón served as their escort from Molina d...

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  • Descending from Sierra de Miedes in the middle of the night

    According to El Cantar, El Cid and 300 horsemen marched across the sierra de Miedes on the ninth day of exile, at the perilous limit of the deadline established by the king to leave Alfonso’s ki...

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  • The oaken woods of Corpes

    The name of the town, Robledo de Corpes, has led some scholars to locate the action of the episode in which El Cid’s daughters were beaten and abandoned by their husbands, the Infantes de Carri&...

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  • The conquest of Castejón

    According to El Cantar de Mío Cid, El Cid made his camp upon the hill of Castejón after crossing the border between Castile and the taifa of Toledo, on the tenth night of exile. Next day...

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  • The caves of Anguita

    The poet says that El Cid and his men rode down the river Jalón after leaving Castejón de Henares, continuing past the Anguita caves on their fifth day of their journey. The caves are vi...

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  • A raid on Hita

    The poet of El Cantar de Mío Cid relates that Álvar Fáñez together with Álvar Álvarez, Álvar Salvadórez, Galín García and two hund...

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