The castle is located in a picturesque area of \u200b\u200btransition between the rugged mountains of Gredos and Béjar and fertile and flat lands Party cereal Alba de Tormes.
Congosto The village itself offers a unique tourist attraction. It is worth visiting the parish church, some of the civil buildings typically hilly, or transit through either of two magnificent bridges of stone, from which it offers an unrivaled view of the river, particularly attractive as it passes through the town, sandwiched between impressive runs as masses of stone that have been patiently carved by the action water for millions of years. Especially breathtaking to behold the mighty flow of water in times of floods, especially in winter and spring, after days of heavy rain on top of the mountain.
archeology buffs can evoke past giving a walk along the rocky slopes of the hill of Berrueco, from whose summit can be sighted a vast horizon on clear days to reach the city of Salamanca. Successive populations of the Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, First and Second Iron Age, and even Visigoths inhabited various places of the same or its foothills. Among them, were his most emblematic residents vettones, people belonging chronologically to Iron II, which was precisely in our land, the epicenter of his area of \u200b\u200bmainland expansion. Today there is no surface trace of these people, but many ceramic pieces scattered everywhere, as incontrovertible evidence what once must have an important place for human settlement.
Near the Congosto there are many places of interest, both scenic and cultural. Guijuelo (famous for its sausages), Béjar (old textile manufacturing center of the first order), Piedrahita (birthplace of Gran Duque de Alba) and El Barco de Avila (with its majestic castle Valdecorneja) are important centers of population area, all at no more than 20 km. away from our people who are worth a visit.
most charming landscapes of the highlands was leading to either the de Gredos, though Bejar. Candelario is a typical mountain village nestled in a unique environment that has preserved its ancient architecture. Tormes valley leads us into the bowels of the mountain gredense where countless gorges give way to the summits of the mountains, paradise of the increasingly surly mountain goat. And it is also worth visiting the less known but equally charming villages, embedded in nature, which mark the cold Aravalle River lands.
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