Santo Domingo de Pirón is a municipality located in the
province of Segovia,
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 2020
census (
INE), the municipality has a population of 53 inhabitants.
Monuments
* Church of Santo Domingo
* Parish Church of Santo Domingo de Silos, with a semicircular chevet from the Romanesque period and preserves the sculptural corbels (heads of the beams) on the cornice. Its belfry (a single-walled bell tower with open holes to place the campaigns) is also perfectly preserved, where its nest of storks cannot be absent.
* Shearing-laundry of Alfaro or Rancho Alfaro, as it is known in the area. It is one of the most important shearing remains in the province. The Rancho Alfaro was ordered to be built by José Alfaro, around 1750.
* Old stone mill
* Shoeing foal
* Facades with different types of
sgraffito.
Holidays
*
San Isidro: May 15
* San Antonio: June 13
*
San Roque: between August 10 and 15
*
The Virgin of the Rosary: in October
* Santo Domingo de Silos: December 20.
Legends
*
El Tuerto de Pirón
Fernando Delgado Sanz (May 30, 1846July 5, 1914), better known as El Tuerto del Pirón or Tuerto Pirón, was a Spaniards, Spanish Banditry, bandit. He worked mainly in the Sierra de Guadarrama and in the basin.
Biography
Childhood
He was b ...
Legend of the Tuerto de Pirón.
Fernando Delgado Sanz
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...
, better known as
El Tuerto de Pirón
Fernando Delgado Sanz (May 30, 1846July 5, 1914), better known as El Tuerto del Pirón or Tuerto Pirón, was a Spaniards, Spanish Banditry, bandit. He worked mainly in the Sierra de Guadarrama and in the basin.
Biography
Childhood
He was b ...
was a bandit born in 1846 in Santo Domingo de Pirón. He robbed the rich, raided churches and roads, acted mainly in the Sierra de Guadarrama and in the Río Pirón basin, although his stories are famous throughout the
province of Segovia and part of
Madrid. According to the story in 1866, when he returned to Santo Domingo de Pirón at the end of his military service, his girlfriend named
Paula Adrados with whom he was engaged, he had married after family pressure. So he decided to start his career by stealing and humiliating the father of his girlfriend who was a chief of the area. A coplaque was sung throughout the area that read:
In Santo Domingo de Pirón every neighbor is a thief; less at the mayor's house; that the son and the father are.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Segovia
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