Aranda de Duero

Aranda de Duero stands on the Duero in a wine-growing district of Castile. Beneath its old streets, a network of cellars was cut into the ground to store wine; records from 1503 describe numerous cellars and casks along a single street. The Gothic church of San Juan also made the town a place of ecclesiastical history. In 1473 Archbishop Alonso Carrillo of Toledo convened a provincial council here, bringing churchmen together in the years before the union of the Castilian and Aragonese crowns.