This town along the river Cidacos used to be the head of the region that gave origin to its name, “Tierra de Yanguas”(Land of Yanguas). The remainings of its castle and city walls are the witnesses of a past linked to sheepherding and trading. The houses with shields are remarkable in its very well preserved city centre, as well as the Town Council, the Door of the River and the Door of the Town, St Martin’s Church, the Romanesque tower of St Miguel and Mary’s Church.

It was built between 1780 and 1798 at the expense of Don Juan Francisco Ximenez del Río, son of the town, who was the bishop of Segovia and archbishop of Valencia. It is traditionally said that this new building was built over the old one, which was not demolished but dismantled and reconstructed in the outside. It has a single nave with five sections of lunette between round arches built over pillars. The crossing stands over pendentives and arms with lunettes. The main retable is dedicated to St Millan de la Cogolla who is shown dressed in black, with a lamb at his feet and a shepherd’s stick (mid. 18th century).

The church keeps the most important artistic treasure of the region: ten Flemish tapestries. Eight of them were woven after Rubens’ drawings. Ximenez del Río donated them and they were manufactured by Frans Van den Hecke between 1630 and 1665. They were ordered by the Princess Isabel Clara Eugenia, daughter of Felipe II and ruler of the Netherlands who ordered Rubens the design of these series for the Monastery Descalzas Reales of Madrid.
They are divided in three groups:
1. Premonitions and Eucharist Prophecies including “Abraham offering the tithe to Melquisedez”, “The harvest of the manna”, “The sacrifice of the Mosaical Law” and “Elias and the Angel”.
2. Apotheosis of the Eucharist with “The Victory of the Divine Love”, “The Victory of Eucharist over idolatry” and “The Victory of the church”.
3. Two tapestries from the series gallant: “Place with musician” and “Series Gallant”.

On the 23rd of June, festivity of St John the Baptst and the longest night of the year, it is celebrated in San Pedro Manrique a rite whose origin is unknown. Next to the chapel of the Virgen de la Peña (Virgin of the Rock) a thousend kilos of oak wood are piled and burned. When the embers are ready, they are spread off as a carpet. Around the fire the neighbours watch how the pasadores (walkers) take off their shoes. Silence rules. The walkers, alone or holding another person on their shoulders, cross the embers carpet with daring and courage. Year after year this rite is carried on, preserving the nature and origin of this town and their citizens. The festival goes on the following day with the Móndidas, caballada, descubierta, mayo, arbujuelos, jota and cuartetas. These acts are not very popular, although they gather many emotions, feelings and history.

These sites are part of the Dinosaur Ichnites of the Iberian Peninsula, which are to be declared Patrimony of Humanity by the UNESCO.

Built at the end of the 12th century and dedicated to the Apostle Saint Peter. Its structure is unique in the world as it is made of two parallel vaults separated by three archs. The middle one is lower than the other two and it has more than eight meters of light. The most amazing part of its structure is fact that the central arch holds the vaults as it would happen later in Gothic.

One single nave divided in four spaces by transverse arches which is covered by two vaults and a semicircular squared apse. It is made of stone. The end of the East wall is a belfry. The most characteristic feature of this church is that it is fortified with arrow loops and merlons due to the battles that were fought in this area between the Kings Sancho the Strong of Navarre and Alfonso VIII.

Sited on top of a hill besides the town, it has a double courtyard around the keep, which was built by the Berbers between the 9th-11th centuries and therefore earlier than the other parts of the castle, which dates back to the 16th century. The keep has some remains of battlements and some windows with carved ashlars. Two concentric rings are the base of its structure. Inside it, it is remarkable its great height and its rectangular ground plant with cylindrical tubes in two of the corners. The third corner is empty and on the fourth stands the keep. The outside is much lower and its plant is an irregular polygon with seven cycildrical tubes and several arrow slits spread all over its walls.

It has a Moorish origin and it was built with mortar and lime in a square area surrounded by four towers. It was inhabited until 1600.

Residencia nobiliaria de carácter defensivo. Su construcción debe datarse hacia 1421, fecha en la cual, el Rey Juan I entrega la entonces Villa de San Pedro de Yanguas a Diego Gómez de Manrique, en agradecimiento a su familia por el apoyo a la nueva dinastía de los Trastámara. La vinculación de esta familia con la villa aumenta entonces, añadiéndose su nombre al de la localidad; pasará a llamarse San Pedro Manrique.

With a single nave and a poligonal apse, from the 16th century and Gothic, this chuch has a Baroque retable and a Romanesque sculpture of the Virgin of the Monastery, that comes from an old chapel that is nowadays in ruins.

The front part seems to be Pre-Romanesque and it has a horseshoe ground plant, which is half excavated in the rock. Its retable dates from the 18th century and within it it is placed the patron saint of the town and the land, from the 13th century. Its inside is decorated with very interesting, popular fresco paintings.

From the 18th century, porticoed, with the shield of the town on its front wall. Yanguas comes from the latin word yanuas that means gate. This town has always been a gate and the communication channel between the upper Duero and the Ebro river.

This palace belonged to the family Cereceda. The shield on its wall dates from the 18th century. In the past it was used as a convent and a Civil Guard headquarter.

It belongs to the early Gothic art and it is characterised by a Plateresque retable that nowadays is located within the Church of Santa María. Another remarkable retable is the one that shows two panels: one of the baby Jesus sleeping and another of the Holy Family. On Friday, mayors of the region used to hold their meetings in this place, that is why the Records of the Town and Land were kept in this church within an iron chest painted with flowers and the heads of some Roman citizens.

It is placed in the Old Town and it was built in the 16th century, in Gothic style and formed by three naves. Three magnificient retable decorate the place, among them, the one placed in the main altar dedicated to Saint Mary. The chapel in honour to the Saint Christ belongs to the Town and Land, it was finished in 1724 and it preserves a great Baroque retable in which a crucified Christ appears surrounded by many angels.

This tower is the only remaining of a Romanesque 12th century temple. Slender and high, it has a squared ground plant and it has round arch windows.

A rich heritage is hold in this museum. Most of the pieces were found during the alterations made in the Church of Saint Lorenzo. Two Romanesque crucifixes and several sculptures are its most valuable treasures, together with a Flemish panel of the Virgin and other liturgical objects.

Thanks to its three naves covered by groined vaults hold by octagonal pillars this church is very roomy and spacious. Some Romanesque remains have appeared in the last remodelling works. The Baroque retable located at the main altar dates from the 18th century and is dedicated to the Immaculate. It comes from the ruined church of St Miguel.