The enclosed village of Villanueva Monument · Villanueva del Conde, Sierra de Francia, Salamanca Image of Villanueva del Conde, not of the place itself. Declared a historic ensemble on 11 February 2016, its peculiarity is the arrangement of the houses forming a perfectly closed walled settlement, whose perimeter was completed in the eighteenth century and which is repeated in very few villages in Europe. Photo: Gerard Margarit Martin (Public domain) What to see and do in Villanueva del Conde