After a day of travel and heavy wine drinking one
needs a place to sleep and a nice dinner.
In the town of Peñafiel the Grupo Pesquera, who owns Bodega Pesquera, has
Hotel Pesquera with the restaurante Luna Llena near the Duero and at the foot
of the so-called 'boat of Castile' so called for shape on to of the hill above
town. Located on ridge between the Duero
and the Duraton rivers, Penafiel was one of the most important fortresses of
medieval Castile. The ridge between the Duero and the Duraton rivers must have
always been fortified. Count Sancho Garcia conquered the site in the eleventh
century, and later AIfonso X left it to his brother, Don Juan Manuel. The present structures date mostly from the
fifteenth century. Its irregular plan
follows the long, narrow ridge on which it sits. Small turrets at the comers and the center of
the walls punctuate its silhouette.
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Restaurante Luna Llena is downstairs
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