The villa of Venta de Baños is a locality and populational kernel of modern and recent origin, emerged about the year 1860 as a result of the growth provoked by the settelment of the important railway crossing, formed by the Ferrocarriles del Norte (Railways of the North) with those of Northwest. Industrial kernel and railway's this, that were installed on what in origin was an ancient road lay ("Venta"), or inn, located in the ancient Real Road of Burgos, that still it can be seen within its urban kernel (it may be that when you be reading these lines it is not). It had excellent inns, sugar factories (Never the past tense was used better, the sugar factory of EBRO company accomplished its last seasson in 1997-98), butter and coal briquettes to feed the railway steam machines.      Its modern urban kernel is, together with that of Villamuriel de Cerrato, that has much grown in the last years within Cerrato of Palencia, being at the point of almost be joined the two villas, the modern of Venta de Baños, with the most ancient and historical of Baños de Cerrato. In the short space of a hundred years, two have been the parochial churches that Venta de Baños has had.The two devoted to Holy Rose of Lima, the villa's saint patroness. The one which today we can envisage is amodernist building after war, inaugurated in 1953 and that replaced in its same solar to other more airy, neo-romanesque, already disappeared and that was built between 1896 and1897.

    In the place known as the Two Walnuts ("Dos Nogales") were found the remains of a Roman villa, and  the fortuitous findings that affirm the stable presence of a spanish-roman population first, and another spnish-visigoth later.

    The tradition assures that  the king Recesvinto returning  of  " appeasing" vascones and aquitanos of their constant revolts and raids, upon going through these cerrateñas  lands he heard about the excellent healthy qualities of the waters of some ancient baths;  as the visigoth monarch  was afflicted of a nephritic illness approached to  them  and took its waters;  a little time after  his illness improved and feelling grateful ordered to build the wellknown basilica and to rebuild the source as a baptistry, devoting them to San Juan Bautista and christianizing in this way a place that so far had been devoted to the pagan cult of the waters and the sources (nymphs).

    In the  VIIIth century , during the Mussulman domination, the basilica is partially destroyed and its settlement abandoned.  From the IXth century "Balneos" is repeopled, as thus  the repopulation necropolis located about the same confirms it . In the XIIth century  Baños de Cerrato and the Basilica  belonged to the patrimony of the queen Doña Urraca. Thereinafter it belonged to different manors, the monks of San Isidro of Dueñas being usufructuary . The Basilica of San Juan of Baños was parish until the XVI th century when the modern parochial church of San Martín was built , and it became hermitage in the  next  century.

    From  the  XVIIIth  "Baños deRio Pisuerga" was secular lordship villa belonging to the Duke of Noblejas and the Marquise of the Carpio.  In the mid XIXth century the hermitage of San Juan Bautista, today Basilica of San Juan de Baños, was  in a ruinous state and the waters of its source carried on being used as remedy for some ailments.  In 1898, after it had been declared National Monument, the Basilica of San Juan de Baños was restored and  in 1966 the next to the basilica "Source" could be declared historical-artistical monument . In the year 1860, in full industrial revolution, the Railway of the North was inaugurated with all what this involved for the ancient Baños, and to the one which soon could overtake in population and development" La Venta de Baños " ("The Inn of Baños") , the present council see.