Castilfrío de la Sierra is a municipality located in the

province of Soria Soria is a Province (Spain), province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Castile and León. Most of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area. Demo ...

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, Spain. According to the 2004

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( INE), the municipality has a population of 27 inhabitants.

History

During the Middle Ages, the locality belonged to the Community of Villa y Tierra de Soria as part of the Sexmo de Tera. The 1528 Census of Pecheros (taxpaying households), which excluded clergy, nobility, and hidalgos, documented 26 pecheros—families subject to taxation. In the original document, the village is listed as Castelfrío de San Juan. Following the collapse of the

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, the locality became a constitutional

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, then known as Castil Frío, in the region of

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, Partido de Soria. By the 1842 census, it had 85 households and 348 residents. By the mid-19th century, the village comprised approximately 100 houses. The settlement is described in the sixth volume of Pascual Madoz’s

Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar The ''Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar'' () is a geographic handbook of Spain. Originally published in 16 volumes between 1845 and 1850, it was edited and directed by Pascual Madoz. A widely ...

as follows:

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* Municipalities in the Province of Soria {{Soria-geo-stub