Cereceda de la Sierra is a
municipality in the province of
Salamanca, western
Spain, part of the autonomous community of
Castile-Leon. It is located from the city of
Salamanca and as of 2016 had a population of 75 people.
The vast majority of the population emigrated to other parts of Spain in the sixties and seventies but used to come back to his native land on summer holidays, most of them have a house in the village.
There is only one bar that agglutinates the shop and pub functions.
The romanic church, Ntra Sra del Rosario, and the Roman bridge called Puente Cantería, are the most important examples of the local architecture as well as the typical houses most of them rebuilt by the emigrants in the last twenty years.
There is a school building with a wall court behind to play typical Spanish sport as
pelota with a racket or one hand and also to play traditional sport known as
calva
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.
But the most popular game in this village is the
tute, a popular card game which is played at the pubs all along the year and the losers occasionally have to paid the drinks that the winners consume as they are playing.
The local amateur football club is formed with the sons and grandsons of the local inhabitants that are proud of their parents and grandparents' land. It used to play a married-single match every year as part of the local summer celebrations.
The
Sierra de Francia
The Sierra de Francia is a mountain range located in Sierra de Francia Comarca at the southern end of Salamanca Province, Castile and León, Spain. It is located about 70 km from Salamanca city. The region is sparsely inhabited and its few ...
is the comarca that includes not only Cereceda but many small towns as
El Cabaco
El Cabaco is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 248 people.
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,
La Nava de Francia
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Tamames
Tamames is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
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and
La Alberca that are typical places to visit on summer and very similar because all of them receive the emigrants that come back home to spend the summer holidays.
External links
Diputación de Salamanca: Índex of municipalitiesWeb Cereceda de la Sierra (unofficial)Link to Google MapsDigital local daily newspaper
References
Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca
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