La Casa del Cura de Calatañazor 

Environment´s information

The Natural Reserve “Sabinar de Calatañazor” is few kilometres far away and the Natural Monument “La Fuentona”, and from Muriel de la Fuente, the traveller can get into the Pine region. 30 kms in the East there is the city of Soria with is Gothic Romanesque, poet route, parks and museum of Numancia. And in the same distance approximately, to the West, the Episcopal villa of Burgo de Osma with its cathedral, arcades streets of the XVIII century, Baroque and neoclassic buildings, parks…And next to it, in Osma, a castle with a medieval bridge, as well as the Celt Iberian-Romanesque site of Uxama. Besides, from Burgo de Osma the traveller can get into to see the Natural Park of Canyon River Lobos. As well as, between Calatañazor and Burgo de Osma you can take a detour to go to see the Romanesque of Rioseco and Torreandaluz, and even go to meet the traditional pottery of Tajueco in a resin pine area.

Calatañazor

Fundamental village in the Route of Almanzor which is equidistant between Soria and Burgo de Osma and very close to the Natural Reserve “Sabina of Calatañazor” and the Natural Monument “La Fuentona”. It is the Historical Artistic Complex. It has a medieval style in the paving streets, traditional houses, medieval wall, remains of the castle and Romanesque parish, have attracted to different cinema directors, specially to Orson Welles who filmed here scenes of “Campanadas a Medianoche”. It is said that in the Valley of the Blood which you can see in a panoramic view from the castle, Almanzor was defeated by the Catholic Kings in the 1002. The parking is before the entrance of the village, next to the Romanesque hermitage with curious corbels in the apse and, further, hundreds of meters away there are the ruins of the other Romanesque hermitage, dedicated to San Juan Bautista.

Tours

Natural Park Canyon River Lobos. Black Lake. The “Fuentona”.

Activities

Hiking, Photography, mycological routes