What you can see on the Aguilar de Campoo webcam
From high in the town centre, the camera looks down over tiled roofs with skylights to a corner of the old town, where tall houses with glazed galleries stand above an arcade, with trees and the sky behind. In strong sun the picture comes out pale and washed out, but it still shows whether the streets are wet, how low the cloud is and, in winter, whether snow has settled on the roofs.
The rooftops of Aguilar de Campoo, live
Radio Aguilar, the town's local radio station, has its studios in the town hall building near the Plaza de España, and streams this live view over the rooftops of the old centre. In the foreground are tiled roofs with skylights; beyond them, tall houses with glazed wooden galleries, the sun-traps typical of the north, stand above an arcade at a street corner, with trees and the sky behind.
The picture is pale and washed out in bright sunshine, so it is more useful as a weather check than as a postcard: wet or dry streets, low cloud over the town or, in winter, snow on the roofs. It is clearest early and late in the day and when the sky is overcast.
Biscuits, Romanesque and a geopark
In the 1960s Aguilar had five biscuit factories, and nine out of ten biscuits eaten in Spain were made here; Gullón still runs two factories in the town, and the industry gave Aguilar its nickname, the biscuit town. The Monastery of Santa María la Real, an old Premonstratensian abbey on the edge of town, now houses a centre for the study of Romanesque art and a museum of the region's many Romanesque churches. A castle crowns the rock above the town, six of its seven medieval gates still stand, and since 2017 the municipality has been part of Las Loras, the first UNESCO Global Geopark in Castile and León.
When to watch Aguilar de Campoo
Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. At about 890 m (2,920 ft), in the shelter of the Cantabrian Mountains, Aguilar has cool summers and long, cold winters, and snow falls in the town most years. The picture is clearest in the softer light of morning and late afternoon or on overcast days.
Around Aguilar de Campoo
Just west of town, the Aguilar reservoir, opened in 1963, covers about 1,650 hectares (6.4 sq mi) of the upper Pisuerga valley. The Montaña Palentina beyond is a land of Romanesque village churches, beech woods and limestone ridges, rising to the Fuentes Carrionas natural park on the border with Cantabria and León.
Getting to Aguilar de Campoo
Santander, with its ferry port and airport, is about 63 miles (102 km) away by road along the A-67 motorway, which passes the town on its way south to Palencia. Aguilar also has a railway station on the line between Palencia and Santander.