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Villalcázar de Sirga is a municipality located in the
Villalcázar de Sirga 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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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
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(INE
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), the municipality has a population of 216 inhabitants.
On the Camino Francés
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in medieval times the church of the Virgin of Villasirga was an important point on the route to Santiago de Compostela
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. Infante Philip of Castile
Philip of Castile ( es, Felipe de Castilla y Suabia; 1231 – 28 November 1274) was an Infante of Castile and son of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and León, and his first queen, Beatrice of Swabia. He was Lord of Valdecorneja, and, according ...
and his second wife, Inés Rodríguez Girón
Inés Rodríguez Girón (died in 1265) was infanta of the Kingdom of Castile as the second wife of Infante Philip of Castile.
Biography
Her parents were Rodrigo González Girón, Lord of Frechilla, and his second wife, Teresa López de Haro. ...
, are buried in the church.
References
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