Husillos is a municipality located in the
province of Palencia
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces of León, Cantabria, Burgos, and Valladolid.
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Castile and León
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According to the 2004
census
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INE
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), the municipality had a population of 208 inhabitants.
Geography and population
Husillos is a little municipality in Northern Spain, in Castile-León, 11 km away, from Palencia and about 260 km northwest of Madrid. Husillos has 208 inhabitants and is 16,4 km² in size.
History
Husillos has had dwellers called vacceos of Celtic origin, and then successively the Romans, the
Visigoths
The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is ...
, Muslims and finally Modern Europeans. The recent history of Husillos starts at the end of the 9th century AD, when the presbiterus Gatón rebuilt the Church of Santa Maria (vid Archivo General de Simancas) that had been destroyed during the Muslim occupation of Palencia (8th and 9th centuries.)
During the 10th century the Abbey of Santa Maria de Fusiellos was built, also called Santa Maria de la Dehesa Brava. In the 11th century the king Sancho el Mayor (Navarre) gave the town of Husillos to the
Bishop of Palencia
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Palencia ( la, Palentin(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Palencia in the ecclesiastical province of Burgos, Spain. , the nearest city. The Middle Ages was the Golden Era for the region of Palencia that comprised Husillos. An important Jewish community lived in the Palencia region during several centuries, although they were finally forced to leave for political and religious reasons in 1492. In the 16th century and after the Battle of Saint Quentin that ended on Saint Laurent's day, AUGUST 10th 1557, Philip II of SPAIN built the
Palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid. The king asked the Abbot of Husillos whether he could give the relic of Saint Laurent, his foot, for the palace of El Escorial. The Abbot gave him it as a present.
In the 16th century the abbey was moved to
Ampudia
Ampudia is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 677 inhabitants.
Castle of Ampudia
Ampudia is the location of a Fifteenth-Cent ...
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The Museum of Archaeology in Madrid holds a Roman sarcophagus from II A.D. with the Myth of Orestes as decoration. It is a piece imported from Rome and found in Husillos. It was reused in the year 960 as the burial of the Count of Monzón Fernando Ansúrez. It was found in Husillos in the 19th century. The Church of Husillos is a National Monument since 1931.
Climate
The climate of Husillos is continental with extremes in winter of -15.C and 40.C in summer.
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Municipalities in the Province of Palencia