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Soria, Timeless Spain

A historical, culinary, and sensorial journey

The rich red-earthed landscape near Fuentepinilla (All photos by author)

I want to take you on a historical, culinary, and sensorial journey across the diverse landscapes of one of the most breath-taking areas of Spain. We’ll visit the birth of the river Duero in the north-west and head across to the rugged Tierras Altas of windswept villages and ichnites in the east. We’ll take brisk strolls through the lands of cereals, pine forests and sunflowers in the central parts and explore the fertile banks of the river Duero of vineyards, wine caves and castles in the south-west.

If ever there was a most underrated part of the world, it is Soria — Soria, the province, that is. The capital of the province, also called Soria, has its own fair share of alluring sites in the form of museums, parks, squares and religious monuments, but the province of Soria, located in the region of Castille and Leon, is something to definitely write home about — which is what I have done on many occasions.

If you jump in a car in Madrid and head north, you can be in the city of Soria in two and a half hours. This will take you up through the southern border of the province to…