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Granja de Moreruela is a municipality located in the
province of Zamora Zamora () is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense, León, Valladolid, and Salamanca, and by Portugal. The present-day province of Zamora w ...
,
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. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
, Spain. According to the 2004
census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
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INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (disambiguation) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (disambiguation) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...
), the municipality has a population of 337 inhabitants.


Background

The Camino Sanabrés, a branch of the Way of Saint James, originates in the town.


Historical buildings

Moreruela Abbey Moreruela Abbey (''Monasterio de Santa María de Moreruela'') is a former Cistercian monastery in the province of Zamora in Castile and León, Spain. Location Moreruela Abbey is situated to the west of Granja de Moreruela, about 35 kilometre ...
is the most important building located in this municipality. Dating from the 12th century, Moreruela Abbey is often claimed as the first monastery of the
Cistercian Order The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint B ...
in Spain.


References

Municipalities of the Province of Zamora {{Zamora-geo-stub