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The name given by the ancient settlers of the town was “ Pudica Fons”, for being a source hidden by brambles and weeds of the place. Its history goes back to the early Middle Ages, and has left us an extensive cultural heritage, which has merited and has won the "C" of Tourism in 2002.

Ampudia conserved among its colonnaded streets some monuments that are worth mentioning as the Collegiate Church of San Miguel together with the Castle is one of the most emblematic buildings in the locality. Gothic- renaissance style, its construction began in the twelfth century, culminating in the sixteenth century. Its tower, designed by Juan de Escalante, reaches 63 meters high. Inside the temple, along with the various altarpieces, you can see a large sample of imagery and relief, and an impressive Baroque organ located in the choir of the seventeenth century.

The Museum of Sacred Art is in the church of the former Convent of San Francisco, founded in the seventeenth century by the Duke of Lerma. Its rich heritage, lets see works dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, and are a clear example of everything that had or has to do with the Catholic Church and its impact on Ampudia.

Ampudia's streets are a sample of typical Castilian architecture. Their houses, two heights are mostly of adobe and brick, and resting on rustic wooden logs or stone columns forming a portico structure that still stands from the since the seventeenth century, with some poles of the thirteenth century.

Ampudia’s Castle is an Historic monument since 1931. Fontaneda family property.

The castle in its present form corresponds to a stately Gothic fortress. This is a building with tropezoidal that had four square towers at the corners most of which corresponds to the so-called Tower of Homage.

In 1960 it was acquired by D. Enrique Perez Fontaneda, which conducted a restoration process, and also the fruit of their labor collector, the castle houses a magnificent collection of art objects and antiques, which the visitor can admire the different rooms: Rooms Archaeology, Sacred Art Facilities , Rooms of toys, The pharmacy, Boards of weapons and musical aspects, Chamber of Ethnography and Folk Art.