Legend has it that, in 1002, the Arab military leader Almanzor He was defeated in the bloody battle that would give rise to the said ‘Calatañazor, where Almanzor He lost the drum ‘, and it is precisely between the walls of this small town of Soria where these events were considered.
The town of Calatañazor is still a place with history, but also with charm, today with only about 50 inhabitants between its walls, 30 kilometers from the city of Soria, in full land region of Burgo1603 meters above sea level.
Calatañazor, shooting scenario for Orson Welles
It is precisely its long history that makes Calatañazor a perfect place for a getaway to learn about one of the most interesting places in the province of Soria, which was also the shooting scene of a Hollywood film.
It was in the 60s when this little Soriana town caught the attention of the filmmaker Orson Welles to shoot part of his film ‘Campanadas at midnight‘(Falstaff – Chimes at Midnight), released in 1965 as a co -production of Spain, Switzerland and France, based on several works by William Shakespeare.
History and nature in a charming enclave in Soria
But this fact is not the only thing that has happened in the streets of Calatañazor, where the medieval battle of the same name between Arabs and Christians also took place, and that gave rise to a medieval castle, dated from the fifteenth century.
On the riverbed of the Milanos, the walls and the streets with their traditional constructions give us a mark of its medieval past, next to the Church of Our Lady of the Castle which houses a baroque altarpiece, a Romanesque baptismal battery and a small museum inside.
These are not the only places of interest in Calatañazor, which has a sabinaria with trees more than 2,000 years old, and surrounding the small town, which was declared a national historical-artistic complex in 1962.
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