La Alberca

In 1940 La Alberca became the first village in Spain declared a historic-artistic site, a status that has kept its streets intact. It lies at 1,048 m in the Sierra de Francia, partly on a pre-Roman hillfort, and many door lintels carry religious inscriptions. Each Easter Monday the village recalls how, in 1465, its women beat Portuguese troops and seized their banner, still kept here.

Highlights

• Church of the Asunción, with a 16th-century polychrome granite pulpit
• Shrine of Majadas Viejas in chestnut and oak woods, with a Romanesque Virgin
• The Las Batuecas valley and its Carmelite monastery with scattered hermitages
• Sanctuary of the Virgin on the Peña de Francia summit, at 1,723 m
• The banner pilgrimage, when the captured Portuguese flag is carried out

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