The Valley of Soria
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This route through a shady green valley of Soria, peppered with delightful towns and villages boasting a wealth of built and environmental heritage provides a fascinating insight into the province’s history. Churches, noble houses, stone buildings and a tour of one of Spain’s most outstanding archaeological sites, Numancia in Garray, all converge to take travellers back in time.
This route also ventures into the largest holly wood in the Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe. Garagüeta is a nature space that explodes into colour in autumn, with a wealth of flora guaranteed to surprise and delight nature lovers.
This route also includes the following sites of interest: Aldeaseñor Fortified house, San Gregorio Fortified House / Church /Convent in Almarza, the Chapel of Los Santos Mártires in Garray and the Palacio of the Hurtado de Mendoza Family in Hinojosa de la Sierra.
What to see?
Saint GregoryMore informationThe dolmen of San Gregorio, which is today without being dug, has a great interest for its constructive features and for enriching the landscape of the Megalithic phenomenon in the province of Soria.This...
Fortified House / Convent / Church of San GregorioMore informationIts origin lies in the document written in Medina del Campo and dated July 29, 1461, by which King M. Enrique gave permission to M. Diego de Medrano to build this fortified house. Later, under the protection...
Serranía Norte Visitor Reception CenterMore informationThe Regional Visitor Reception Center "Serranía Norte Soriana" is the tourist information point for the area created in 2008 in the building of the old town hall of Almarza. On the ground floor is the...
- Neolithic fortified settlement of ZarranzanoMore information
The fort of Zarranzano is set in a strategic natural location, on a fluvial breakwater between the confluence of the Tera and Zarranzano Rivers and it limited by natural scarps and a strong wall in the...
Church of Saint BonifaceMore informationThe church of San Bonifacio de Espejo de Tera, Almarza district, has been declared BIC with Monument category on January 18, 2024.It is small in size and is characterized by its constructive simplicity...
Roman ChurchMore informationThis church was completed in the late 17th century. It contains a baroque altarpiece featuring an image of la Dolorosa (virgin od sorrow) dating from the 18th century, and a recumbent Christ, another altarpiece,...
Ethnographic Museum of San AndresMore informationIt is located in the old town hall and is the result of the collaboration of the neighbours of the town of Almarza. On the first floor is preserved an old mountain kitchen with accessories of the period:...
Church of Santo Tomas ApostolMore informationAt the entrance to the town of Chavaler stands the church of Santo Tomás, from the 18th century, built at the initiative of the Marquises of Villavicencio and Alcántara, nobles enriched by the livestock...
NumanciaMore informationThe first time el Cerro de la Muela was occupied was back in the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age (2500 - 1600 B.C.). A settlement formed by different cultures from prehistory to the roman era.There are...