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What to see and do in Itero del Castillo

What to see and do in Itero del Castillo (Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Nature

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The hermitage of San Nicolás at the bridge 1.1 km

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What to see and do in Itero del Castillo

Itero del Castillo
Village
Itero del Castillo is a municipality of 74 inhabitants on the left bank of the Pisuerga river, opposite the Palencia town of Itero de la Vega, in the Odra-Pisuerga district. It is recorded as Fitero del Castiello in the 950 fuero of Melgar de Fernamental, and is mentioned in the poem of Fernán González as a Castilian border stronghold. Of its old castle only a tower survives, stripped of its battlements, with a pointed doorway and a double window. Beside the Camino de Santiago stand the ruins of the Hospital de la Puente de Itero, founded in 1160 by Count Nuño Pérez de Lara, and the hermitage of San Nicolás, today a pilgrim reception centre; a slender bridge known as de la Mula links the provinces of Burgos and Palencia.
The truncated tower of the castle of Itero
Monument
Of the castle that watched over the ford of the Pisuerga there remains a tower stripped of its battlements, with a pointed doorway and a paired window. The place is named in the Poema de Fernán González as a landmark of the Castilian frontier.
The hermitage of San Nicolás at the bridge
Monument
It belonged to the Order of Saint John and tended pilgrims beside the ford. Restored, it functions today as a hostel run by an Italian confraternity, lit only by candles and without running water or electricity.
The Pisuerga as the boundary between two provinces
Nature
The river marks here the boundary between Burgos and Palencia. It is crossed by the bridge of Itero, also called de la Mula, a long ashlar bridge that the Camino Francés uses to leave the lands of Burgos.