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What to see and do in Tubilla del Agua

What to see and do in Tubilla del Agua (Páramos, Burgos): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 3 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

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What to see and do in Tubilla del Agua

Tubilla del Agua
Village
Tubilla del Agua is a municipality in the Páramos comarca, province of Burgos, with about 125 inhabitants distributed between Tubilla itself and the settlements of Bañuelos del Rudrón, Covanera, San Felices de Rudrón and Tablada del Rudrón. It lies nestled in the Rudrón valley, in an area of Cretaceous limestone páramos through which run the deep escarpments carved by the Ebro and Rudrón rivers; the village sits on the tufa formations built up over time by the Hornillo river, and its very name alludes to that tufa and to water. Its surroundings hold dolmens from the La Lora megalithic complex and, in the hamlet of Bañuelos del Rudrón, the Romanesque church of San Esteban.
Blue Spring of Covanera
Nature
A karst spring of blue water with a mouth seven metres across and ten metres deep, discharging an average of a thousand litres a second, with peaks of 4,710 in high water and lows of 34 at the driest time of year.
Underwater exploration of the Pozo Azul
Activity
By August 2015 divers had mapped 13,600 metres of flooded passage; the second sump alone is 5,160 metres long and reaches 71 metres of depth below the surface.
Rudrón Canyon
Nature
The Rudrón cuts a gorge with limestone walls between the moorlands, with karst features, tight narrows and riverside vegetation that supports otters, trout and native river crayfish.
Church of Santa María de Tubilla
Monument
A church on the village's main square, one of the three religious buildings the built-up area preserves along with the Church of San Juan, in the lower quarter, and the ruins of the old San Miguel.
Church of San Juan y casa de los Bocanegra
Monument
In the lower quarter stands the Church of San Juan, of medieval fabric, alongside civil buildings of the same period such as the house of the Bocanegra family, one of the powerful lineages of the valley.
Ruins of the old San Miguel church
Curiosity
Of the Romanesque Church of San Miguel barely more than walls remain: in 1968 it was plundered by antique dealers who carried off its carved pieces, a documented case of the looting suffered by the rural Romanesque of Burgos.
Medieval arch of Tubilla
Monument
One of the village's medieval entrance arches still stands, evidence of the defensive layout of a place already mentioned in 1052 in the founding charter of a monastery.
The tufa of the Hornillo River
Nature
The River Hornillo runs through the built-up area laying down calcareous tufa as it goes, a phenomenon that gave the village its name and that still forms steps and small falls among the vegetable plots on the valley floor.
First mention of Tovilla
Historical milestone
The place is first documented in 1052 and appears again as Tovilla in donations of 1160 and 1161; by 1352 it is recorded as a seigneurial settlement in the Becerro registers.
Trout of the Rudrón
Food and drink
The cold waters of the Rudrón have always given trout to the villages of the canyon, and preparing them in the Castilian manner, pickled or with ham, is one of the traditional dishes of these hemmed-in valleys.