Unlike Medina del Campo, Cuellar managed to hold onto a fair slice of its historical center. There are a number of Mudejar churches around town and the city is still surrounded by its (fairly uninteresting) walls, but overall the town looks a bit ragged, so we didn't spend much time exploring here.

110. Cuellar

Next stop was another medieval market town, Cuellar. It was a prosperous wool trading town in the middle ages, and was given by the king to the Duke of Albequerque as a birthday present. The Duke built the castle to safeguard his present, although he eventually lost both the castle and the town. The castle was used as a prison, a mental hospital and now a cheery girls' school, and since school was in session we couldn't really explore much of the castle.