Soria is one of the provinces that the Community composes of Castile and Leon. Their towns have an own style, are small and in them still the traditional houses perviven. Populated from the Age with Stone - although the origin of his inhabitants he is Roman -, Soria is a province with one long history to her backs.
She is, in addition, a place calm, other people's to the noise of the modern civilization; the nature, the flora and the fauna coexist in harmony with their monuments, the great majority of Romanesque style. Something important has to have this province when as emblematic poets as Unamuno or Machado has made of their virtues verses for their poems. The duro winter of these earth can solely be the person in charge of which a visit to Soria is not absolutely perfect, at least for those people who are not customary to temperatures below cero.
For that reason, we recommended to make this route in summer time. Soria, small but rich artistic Located safe from two hills, the Castle and the Onlooker, this city and its history intensely is bound to the Duero river. But also one is very closely bound to the Romanesque Spanish, artistic style that impregnates many of its monumental buildings.
Departure point and first shutdown, without a doubt, it did not disappoint to that undertakes this route Many are the monuments that are located in the traditional streets of the city of Soria and some of them of are forced visit for the traveller. The church of Santo Domingo, declared National Monument and of style Romanesque, is one of them. This temple, constructed in second half of century XII, has a considered facade richest and completes of all the Spanish románicas facades. It is not either necessary to leave this city without visiting the church, also románica, of San Juan of the Rabanera and also declared National Monument, the palace of the Counts of Go'mara, a jewel of the civil architecture of Soria and equally declared National Monument, the hermitage del Onlooker, with a ornamentación in his interior of baroque style that is essential to visit, or the most original arcs of San Juan de Duero, Monument National and one of del Spanish Romanesque Art. It was an old monastery of which, at the present time, claustro Romanesque - although with influences is only conserved mudéjares- and the church.