Yanguas de Eresma

Yanguas de Eresma is a village of a hundred people on the plain north of Segovia. Park on the wider street at the entrance. There's room during the week. You will not find a bar or any services for visitors. Come fed, or plan to eat elsewhere.

The place is small. Walk it in twenty minutes. The houses are adobe and whitewash, with wooden gates and old corrals. It looks like it always has. Streets are quiet, doors open directly onto them. The low rooflines don't break the flat horizon.

Iglesia de la Asunción Its tower is the only thing that rises above the rooftops. The church is plain stone, built for function. The interior matches that. It's normally closed. Its main use is as a landmark you can see from the fields.

The fields are the point Yanguas de Eresma exists because of the cereal fields around it. They run flat to every horizon, broken only by distant pine woods and the line of the páramo. This isn't pretty; it's vast and exposed. Walk out on any farm track. The village shrinks behind you quickly. Buzzards circle over the ploughed earth. There is no shade.

Practical walk Take one of the compacted earth tracks west from the village towards the pines. Turn south at the tree line, then east back through fields. It takes about an hour. You won't get lost—you can always see where you started. The ground is even. Do this in spring or autumn. In summer, start early; by midday, the sun here is direct and heavy.

Final note Come before noon, walk its streets once, then head out into those fields for twenty minutes. That’s all you need. You’ll have understood this part of Segovia: space, grain, sky, and villages built low against the wind