The tower at the end of the streetview

 To be honest I feel that Streetvew are being a bit slack in terms of Northern Rioja.  We are missing pictures of even the town at the end of the tour.  We will start by crossing back into La Rioja and to the Ermita de la Virgen de la esclavitud.  Maria was impressed four months ago.  ‘Hermitage of modern construction with a special energy. The surroundings with their picnic areas to spend the day are beautiful. Great discovery.’



We are coming into Anguciana.  Most of the History is about lords and the like until the mid nineteenth century when a report said of the place then had one hundred houses, with a palace for the lord of the town, a municipal house in whose grounds there was a school attended by 80 to 90 children of both sexes and a teacher. It had 50 cellars dug into a rock and a washhouse. Its main economic sector was the agriculture of wheat, barley, wine, legumes and vegetables, in addition to owning cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and mules necessary for farming. It also had fifteen olive mills or presses to make wine and a flour mill. It had part of its income from the export of wine to the Basque provinces and the mountains of Santander and Burgos, as well as imports of textile, colonial and overseas products.  Today 435 people live there.





Crossing the Rio Tiron we come to the Torre Fuerte de Anguciana.  It is currently in private hands.  It dates back to 1397 when Juan Alfonso de Salcedo got a licence from Henry III to build a castle.



I think we need a drink.  Bar Poli gets 4 stars from 273 reviews. Pedro reckoned ‘The atmosphere and the food were good 👍 but the service was due to having a lot of people to serve, a little slow, the rabas and the skewers were very good but the wait was tiring’   Mozart Mozart, so good he named himself twice, said ‘It's a simple bar, in a pueblo, very humble, Pêro with good people, the food is limited,,,’  



Let us rest and watch the LR-202 go by.










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