Castilla y Leon Tourist Guide

Locks 22, 23 and 24. North branch. Ribas de Campos. Palencia

Visitors can enjoy a host of active tourism activities such as canoeing, routes on horseback, cycling and hiking, etc. The constructions associated with the canal – locks, aqueducts, bridges, dams, wharfs and warehouses – used for loading and unloading the goods, reveal all the beauty and harmony with which they were designed. Castilla Canal stretches out for 207 kilometres and has three branches: North, South and Campos. The North branch starts at Alar del Rey and ends in Ribas de Campos, where the branch of the same name begins, extending as far as Medina de Rioseco. In turn, the South branch starts at the fork formed by the Campos branch in El Serrón and continues as far as Valladolid, where it meets the River Pisuerga.

which the saint, founder of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, set up convents, namely Ávila, Segovia, Soria, Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid, Medina del Campo, Salamanca and Alba de Tormes, where her tomb and several relics can be seen. Several of these towns are home to museums that commemorate the figure of this universal saint. There are also several partial routes: The route of life; The final resting places; The early convents; Saint Teresa in World Heritage Cities. CASTILLA CANAL Although this magnificent feat of engineering, which flows through the provinces of Palencia, Burgos and Valladolid, is no longer used for its original purpose of transporting cereals and other goods, today it is truly delightful route.

LOCKS ALONG THE CANAL As they make their way along the Canal, tourists will come across no fewer than 69 locks through which the barges used to pass, which at one time totalled more than 300. Today visitors can enjoy a choice of boat trips along Castilla Canal, departing from Medina de Rioseco (Valladolid), Herrera de Pisuerga or Villaumbrales (Palencia).

Plaza Mayor of Valladolid.

The cloister at the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos. Burgos.

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CASTILLA Y LEÓN. THE REAL LIFE