Castrocalbón

Castrocalbón lies in the Valdería country south of Astorga. Its houses cluster below a small height occupied first by an Iron Age hillfort and later by a medieval castle. The settlement had its own fuero, a body of local law setting out the rights of the lord and council and regulating affairs such as markets. Beneath the castle stands the church of El Salvador, whose brickwork bears the influence of Mudéjar building traditions.