Briviesca

Briviesca lies in La Bureba, northeast of Burgos, its old streets laid out on a regular grid around the main square. The town grew under the lordship of the Velasco family and became an important meeting place of the Castilian kingdom. In 1387 John I held the Cortes here, where the title of Prince of Asturias was established for the heir to the Crown. Churches, convents and civic buildings mark the prosperity Briviesca enjoyed in the centuries that followed.