After our mushrooms “hunt” in Soria, we visited Burgos for a 1 day and 1 night tour which only gave us enough time to visit Burgos city center, to give us an idea how does Burgos looks like. My first impression on Burgos is that it’s a very clean city. It’s very pleasant to scoll around the city, there are benches everywhere which allow you to take a seat whenever you want to have a break. Another observation of mine is that people in Burgos are very well-dressed, more elegant as compared to the other Spanish cities.

A little history about Burgos… It is a city located in the northwestern of Spain, at the edge of the central plateau, with about 170,000 inhabitants in the city and another 10,000 in its suburbs. Burgos was founded in the 9th century but retaining its Visigothic name signifying consolidated walled villages (Burgos). The city was the seat of a Catholic bishop from the 10th century and became in the 11th century the capital of the Kingdom of Castile. Burgos was a major stop for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela.

Burgos still possesses more ecclesiastical monuments than any other Spanish city. The three most outstanding are the Cathedral, with its Chapel of the Condestable, the Monastery of Las Huelgas and the Carthusian Monastery of Miraflores.

The Gothic Cathedral at Burgos begun in 1221, displays features of the 13th to 15th centuries. Burgos Cathedral is the burial place of the 11th century warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, also known as El Cid, who was born in a little town near the city which is now called Vivar del Cid. He was the hero of his time and the man most feared by the Muslius, whom he defeated in innumerable encounteres.