Tower-palace of the Alvarado family Monument · Merindad de Montija, Las Merindades, Burgos Image of Merindad de Montija, not of the place itself. A sixteenth-century seigneurial construction in the quarter of El Ribero, which lives in the municipality alongside the Romanesque hermitage of Bárcena de Pienza and the Romanesque church of Bercedo, at the foot of the pass of Los Tornos. Photo: Marcsp91 (Public domain) What to see and do in Merindad de Montija