Situated on the slopes of the Alto del Castro, where there was once a fortress (there is also talk of a Celtiberian castro), Zayas de Torre has a beautiful Romanesque church, the parish church of San Martin de Tours, with a grandiose Cistercian façade and porticoed gallery.

In its square there is a fountain built of ashlar stone with two bronze spouts and a large basin used in the past as a drinking trough.

Zayas de Torre also has a hermitage called San Roque, located next to the threshing floors, on the Castro hill, although it is also called the hermitage of the Virgen de la Fuente, patron saint of the town, and where the villagers go on pilgrimage with her image on 27th May (or the last weekend of that month).

Furthermore, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar passed through these lands when he left Burgos on his way to exile, which is why Zayas forms part of the itinerary of the Route of the Cid.

Zayas de Torre celebrates its fiestas in May in honour of the Virgen de la Fuente.

Zayas de Torre people’s name: zayenses.