Route to Roa (Burgos): town of the province of Burgos in Spain which is “raudense”.It is the old Rauda of the Romans. Here he spent a Roman road that went from Clunia to Astorga. It is situated on a spur leaned to the Douro River that dominates the landscape.
Count Nuno (or Munio) Núñez, father-in-law of King García de León reconquered Roa. At the same time, count Gonzalo Fernández, father of the famous Fernán González, regained the Borough of Osma and Berlanga de Duero. That was how the entire line of the Duero was assured. In the century XV Henry IV he delivered the town as a gift to your favorite don Beltrán de la Cueva, and in the year 1517 here came to dying Cardinal Cisneros that would travel to an interview with Ferdinand. In 1825 he died hanged in the square of the village Juan Martín the the Empecinado. He had come here fleeing from their enemies to accommodate the charters that he enjoyed this place, but the reactionaries did not respect the right of asylum. He was tortured and humiliated, exhibited in a cage on a cart. He managed to boot the sword to the official who accompanied him to the scaffold. He was finally hanged on 20 August.
Agriculture, distillation of alcohol, milling wheat, chocolate factories, soups pulp mills. It has very good potatoes, beans, vegetables, cheeses, sausages and wine with a designation of origin.
It is headquarters of D.O. Ribera el Duero.
It is part of the route Commonwealth of Rural affluent wine.
The collegiate church. It is the most important monument of Roa.
The monument to the vendimiadora which shows a girl at the door of the collegiate church wearing the typical basket of vintage.
Famous in the region the bulls and enclosures of the August holidays.
In its gastronomy stress: Roast lamb, cheese and wine. Essential visit to the restaurant the chop.
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