To part of their old history, historicas tracks that go back very remote times, the kingdoms of Castilla y Leon play the most important historico role in the Average Age and Reconquista. From this time to our days the man left to samples of his art and culture throughout all his territory, having Castile and Leon the most important artistic historical set in which great part of Spanish history can be read. Their Castles are the most glorious rest of the historical past of this Community. Omnipresent in the landscape, singulars in its location, a rosary of castles seeds all regional geography and there is no hill that, still today, does not show the imposing fortifications that made the Castilian and leonine señoríos respectable. They arise as defensive towers from century VIII and its construction extend until century XV, date in which the castles begin to lose their original function. At the moment there are almost 300 castles distributed by all regional geography, which turns it second importance of all the country and occupies the first position as far as category of these monuments. Some strengths practically are in inaccessible places, retired of the urban nuclei and including in these, of others only they are left the vestiges, that's why has been made a selection of most attractive tourist speaking. Their popular celebrations, that are developed throughout all the year, allow us to know aspects a rich one and varied folclore, very not known for the great public and by very archaic roots, that by surprising will leave a strong track after the visit to this community.
Their popular character, its strong anthropological roots and their noticeable religious characteristics characterize these public celebrations that follow one another by all the population centers, by small that is. Castilla y Leon, immersed in the civilization and western culture, maintain these celebrations alive that form a mosaic multicolor where the religion has capacity, carried out by patronos, saints and invocations. As well as the pagan world, with the pervivencia of the carnivals and personages who lose themselves in preRoman cultures. Tauromaquia and the gastronomical calls around a traditional food also comprise of these manifestations. In Castile and Leon the great religious celebrations of the Easter acquire special resonance that, besides to gather the popular fervor, outdoors become extraordinary museums of art. Something that provides imaginería, through its valuable statures and the colorful one of the multitudinal processions. The kitchen of Castilla y Leon of century XXI coexists, to equal parts, between the traditional prescription, that maintain its plates and ingredients intact, and the kitchen again design that reigns in most of the European restaurants. Due to the great geographic extension and, fundamentally, to the orographic and cultural diversity of the region, the popular recipe book very abundant and is extraordinarily varied. Each zone conserves its gastronomical peculiarity. Trout, cooks evolved in the towns of the region festive foods of repostería and plates with than 300 years of antiquity, remaining more unalterable its presentation and most of the ingredients. A characteristic is this one that characterizes the vigor of the Castilian and leonine kitchen.
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