Paseo de los Cubos walk attraction

The Paseo de los Cubos is named after the towers located in this area of the old wall, one of the best preserved parts of the medieval fence, which was demolished, for the most part, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The remains of the wall that we can see today correspond to the works carried out at the behest of Alfonso X the Wise from 1276 onwards. As is logical, the city of Burgos had an earlier wall, which had become too small to accommodate the neighbourhoods that, throughout the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, had grown outside its gates. 💡Curiosities Work on the new fence lasted more than a century. When it was completed, it had 93 circular towers or cubes and 12 gates.At the end of the Paseo de los Cubos, just before the wall makes a right-angled bend, is the simple gateway to the Jewish quarter, which gave access to the Burgos aljama. On the corner is the Torreón de doña Lambra (Tower of Doña Lambra).