Environment and surroundings

Valle del Cuco

Cuco Valley is a small strip of land that runs long and narrow canyon between moorland with steep slopes. It is located east of the province of Valladolid, on the border with Burgos, and configures a unique landscape in the area, with water and a particular microclimate, as due to its topography, the cold winter temperatures are moderate.

All these features have enabled today remain native plant species such as oak, gall oak, pine, poplar, cottonwood, ash, almond trees and vegetation in banks of herbaceous; all so diverse wildlife refuge as cuckoos, eagles, vultures, peregrine falcons, amphibians, reptiles and small and large mammals such as wolves, foxes, hares, etc ...

The towns that comprise the Cuco Valley are:

Bocos de Duero.
Bocos de Duero is located at the foot of a hill and lie close to the Valle del Cuco, a narrowing of the field that gives rise to a dense green landscape, unusual and surprising. The stream that gives the valley its name flows into the Douro River, within walking distance of the town of Bocos. 
Emphasizes the Church of the Virgen de las Nieves Gothic (S. XII) which is accessed from a small atrium. Inside is a nave with barrel vault covered with plaster. The beams of the choir loft at the foot of the church have decorative paints geometric XV.
For its municipal railway line runs the old Valladolid-Ariza iron bridge which crosses the Douro. 
On leaving the village there is a recreational area very close to the River Douro. 
The town has an interesting array of traditional cellars dug into the slopes of the mountain known as Gurugú.

Valdearcos of the Plains.
At the entrance of the village is the Hermitage of Santo Cristo, built with fine stone masonry. 
Go deep in Valdearcos can see the church of Our Lady of the Assumption which dates from the fifteenth century, although this time not retain too since during the S. XVIII was important reforms. Its main altar is presided over by Our Lady of the Assumption.
In the square is the Renaissance style Jurisdictional Rollo. 
Coming into neighboring Corrales de Duero is the hermitage of Nuestra Senora de la Zarzuela, small, and whose feast day is celebrated in September.
Corrales de Duero.
The village takes its name from the corrals and huts that were the shepherds who came from elsewhere to watch over their flocks, possibly the continuous stay of the same in this land gave rise to the town now known as.

Corrales de Duero.
Here the water flows through every corner and this gives the town a green, even without any river, Corrales depart for the wilderness five paths and they all have their respective source to which we must add as many found in the hull urban.
The church of the Assumption is the S. XII-XIII and stresses on the outside a small tower height. The interior is decorated with altarpieces and panel paintings.
The hermitage of San Antonio who was very poor has recently been restored. 
In the streets of Las Parras will find many old houses built with the typical architecture of wood, adobe and stone.

The valley of San Llorente
It is the birthplace of the Cuco stream that gives its name to the Valley commencing in San Llorente. 
The church of St. Peter the sixteenth century and the Gothic style, stands inside the image of a Madonna and child rescued from the XIII century medieval wilderness known as Jarrubia or Isarrubia