Lobera de la Vega is a
hamlet
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of
Pedrosa de la Vega
Pedrosa de la Vega is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 366 inhabitants.
Monuments
* Roman villae of La Olmeda: The palatial ...
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.
Overview
Of ...
,
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.
Lobera was quoted in the documentation of San Benito de Sahagún in times of
Ramiro II of León as "Laenna laperca". From this village was originally Lobera family who in the 16th century went to San Cebrián Mazote and more was later extended to
Galicia and
Cuba
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. King
Alfonso VIII of Castile
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, at the end of the 12th century, donated Lobera to the
Monastery of San Zoilo in Carrión. Its parish church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is of brick, a nave covered with a vault of edge, highlighting its three neoclassical retables; side of the Gospel, Presibiterio and epistle.
Other references
http://www.vegavaldavia.com/Lobera
Hamlets in the Province of Palencia
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