Situated on the River Carrión, it is 40 kilometers upstream from the provincial capital of Palencia, on the French Way of the Way of Saint James.

Alfonso ultimately chose exile, where he sought refuge in Toledo, which was then in Moorish hands.

[2] In 1209, Hospital de la Herrada was established by Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, a Palencia tycoon who became steward of the king, to provide assistance to the Jacobean pilgrims and other travelers.

Although they outnumbered the Christians both in numbers and in property, they submitted in 1126 to the victorious King Alfonso VII, who showed himself favourably disposed towards them.

Delegates from the city appeared before King Alphonso of Castile (probably Alfonso the Wise), informing him that the Christians of the city, because of a groundless suspicion, had risen against the Jews and killed two of them; that thereupon the Jews had sought refuge in the palace of the prince, who was absent at the time, and, when the Christians followed in pursuit, had escaped through a secret door leading into the court, and locked their pursuers in.