The Association of Spain's Most Beautiful Towns is founded in Castile and León, with 27 founding towns

Castilla y León now has its own association of Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España. The mayors of 27 of the region's 31 villages that belong to the network founded it this Thursday, 5 November, at the Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Prado in Valladolid, headquarters of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport. Its first president is Ramón López Blázquez, mayor of Sepúlveda, and the association's headquarters will be in Sepúlveda.

The day began early with the founding assembly, at which the mayors approved the statutes, elected the first board of directors and signed the deed of constitution. Afterwards, the Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Junta de Castilla y León, José Alberto Díaz Pico, and the Director General of Tourism received the mayors. The president of the Asociación Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España, Francisco Mestre, was also present.

The Junta will support the new association

Díaz Pico congratulated the founding villages, welcomed them and assured them that the Junta will support the new association. He stressed that, given the relevance that the Asociación Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España has across Spain, its arrival in Castilla y León is a matter of great importance for the Junta.

Ramón López Blázquez, first president

The mayor of Sepúlveda will chair the first board of directors, and the new association will have its headquarters in this Segovian village. López Blázquez said he is very proud to chair it and expressed his hope that this will be the first step in joint work with the Junta de Castilla y León and the provincial councils.

The board of directors is made up of seven villages from seven of the region's nine provinces:

President: Town Council of Sepúlveda (Segovia), represented by its mayor, Ramón López Blázquez.

Secretary: Town Council of Ledesma (Salamanca), represented by its mayor, Exuperancio Benito García.

Treasurer: Town Council of Urueña (Valladolid), represented by its mayor, Francisco Rodríguez San José.

Board member: Town Council of Medinaceli (Soria), represented by its mayor, Gregorio Miguel Santander.

Board member: Town Council of Caleruega (Burgos), represented by its mayor, Lidia Arribas Delgado.

Board member: Town Council of Ampudia (Palencia), represented by its mayor, José Luis Gil Marcos.

Board member: Town Council of Bonilla de la Sierra (Ávila), represented by its mayor, José Antonio Orgaz Rodríguez.

The 27 founding villages

The founding act was signed by Bonilla de la Sierra, in Ávila; Caleruega, Castrojeriz, Covarrubias, Frías, Lerma, Poza de la Sal, Puentedey and Santa Gadea del Cid, in Burgos; Molinaseca, in León; Ampudia, in Palencia; La Alberca, Ledesma, Miranda del Castañar and Mogarraz, in Salamanca; Ayllón, Maderuelo, Pedraza and Sepúlveda, in Segovia; Berlanga de Duero, El Burgo de Osma, Medinaceli, Monteagudo de las Vicarías, Vinuesa and Yanguas, in Soria; Urueña, in Valladolid; and Puebla de Sanabria, in Zamora.

The community with the most villages in the network

Castilla y León is the community with the most villages in Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España: 31 of the 126, spread across its nine provinces. One in every four villages in the network is in Castilla y León. Between September 2025 and August 2026, they received more than six million visitors, according to data from Telefónica Tech, which the association works with.

One voice before the Junta

The new association is born to speak on behalf of these villages before the Junta de Castilla y León and the diputaciones: to request aid, agreements and investments, and to tackle together what they share, such as housing, transport, services, wildfire prevention or local commerce. The tourism promotion of the villages continues to be handled by the national association, with its website, app, social networks and presence at FITUR.

It is the third regional association in the network, after that of Cantabria, founded in June in Santander with seven villages, and that of Aragón, founded in July in Zaragoza with fifteen. Castilla-La Mancha has already begun the process.

The president of the Asociación Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España, Francisco Mestre, has stated:

«Castilla y León is the community with the most villages in the network, and today its mayors have shown that they want to work together. With one voice before the Junta, these villages will be able to better defend what they need to keep living and be well cared for. Thanks to the councillor and the director general of Tourism for their support from day one.»