Calatañazor · Soria Province · Spain

Calatañazor

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easy

5/10

best: morning, autumn, spring

remote, atmospheric, historic

A local would say...

Only 54 people live in this hilltop village — and Doctor Zhivago was filmed here because it already looked like a movie set.

One of Castilla y León's most romantic tiny hilltop villages, Calatañazor (population 54) has a crumbling medieval air with crooked cobbled lanes wandering through narrow streets lined by ochre stone-and-adobe houses topped with red-tiled roofs and conical chimneys. The village takes its name from the Arabic Qala'at an-Nassur — 'The Vulture's Citadel'. Scenes from Doctor Zhivago were filmed here.