Castrillo de los Polvazares

Castrillo de los Polvazares is a town in the province of León, near Astorga and considered a Historic-Artistic Site. Close to the Camino de Santiago, it is a typical village of the Maragatería region, with cobbled streets, red clay facades and arched gates. The architecture of the village in its current configuration, is totally conditioned to the muleteers, since the transport and storage of goods, which was the main activity in the area until the arrival of the railroad in the nineteenth century, from the cobblestones of the streets, through the shape of the arches of the main entrances, or