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This charming small town is situated in the south-west corner of the Castile and Leon region.
La Alberca is one of the most important villages in the area - well known for its traditions and customs that date back to the 15th Century. It was the first village in Spain to be declared a National Heritage Site in 1940.
It is located only 70 km from Salamanca with a population of a little less than 1,200 and attracts tourists from all over. Surrounded by four mountain ranges, La Alberca's landscape is quite a spectacle. The medieval village still preserves its architecture, especially in its town centre where to this day expert blacksmiths and other traditional trades people can be found.
A wander through the streets of La Alberca with its quaint, overhanging, half-timbered houses -their system of construction unchanged for hundreds of years- will have many visitors shaking their heads and thinking that they have somehow travelled back in time, unless of course some delivery van should rudely a waken them from their daydreams.
A tour of the town inevitably leads into this Plaza Mayor, an irregular square ringed by columned arcades, without rival and still very much the centre of the townsfolk's social and festive life.