San Pedro de Arlanza | Paintings from Arlanza | Arlanza river |
Villamayor and Villaldemiro are towns located about 20 km south of Burgos, and it is in this area, around the basins of the rivers Arlanzón and Arlanza, that his holdings were clustered.
Recorded for the first time in 899 as Count of Burgos, soon the region expanded to the eastern mountain valleys enabling Gonzalo to make his fort base in Lara, thus stretching his rule from the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains around Espinosa de los Monteros to the river Arlanza, which therefore became the border with the neighbouring Muslim territories.
The paintings from Arlanza are a set of frescos belonging to the mural decoration of a former Benedictine monastery in San Pedro de Arlanza (closed in 1841), in the Province of Burgos, Spain, dating to around 1210, and now dispersed among a number of collections.