Palazuelos de Eresma is a municipality located in the
province of Segovia
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,
Castile and León, Spain.
It takes its name from the
River Eresma.
Demography
According to the 2021
census
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(
INE
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), the municipality had a population o
5 59793 inhabitants.
Culture
Heritage
* Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in the
late Gothic style, originally
Romanesque, was restored in 2021. It has a
Baroque main altarpiece, a silver processional cross and a
Monstrance of the Sun created in
Segovia
Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia.
Segovia is in the Inner Plateau ('' Meseta central''), near the northern slopes of t ...
in the 18th century;
* Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary;
*
DYC whiskey factory, founded in 1959 by
Nicomedes García;
* Boilers of the
Cambrones river;
* ''Alto Eresma'' Green Path;
* Remains of a
Roman villa
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Typology and distribution
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...
and later
Visigothic
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necropolis;
*
The Barbers bunker with origins in the
Civil War
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, located in a place known as the Balcón de Pilatos located next to the
river Eresma;
* Hermitage of San Antonio de Padua;
* Remains of the old paper factory of the old
Marqués del Arco mill;
* Estate and royal palace of the Quinta de
Quitapesares;
* Remains of the buckle factory, the old
Gamones mill;
* Remains of
shearing
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ranches;
*
Shoe rack
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, next to the
Trescasas road;
* Caceras del
Cambrones and
Navalcaz;
* Bridge of the Merinas over the
Eresma.
Holidays
Throughout the municipality
*
Battering;
*
Cacera Mayor Day, last Saturday of May.
Palazuelos de Eresma
*
Anthony of Padua, June 13;
*
Assumption of Mary
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, on August 15.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Segovia
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