Matilla de Caños

Matilla de los Caños lies amid the oak pastures and rolling fields southwest of Salamanca. Its name appears in a cathedral document of 1182, during the medieval settlement of the region. On a nearby height stood an older fortified site and a castle; in 1505 the Cortes of Toro ordered the castle's destruction. The surrounding country contains still older traces of human occupation, including a megalithic tomb at Linejo.