Villagatón
Villagatón is a municipality located in the León (province), province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE), the municipality has a population of 734 inhabitants. Villagatón is part of the historical region of La Cepeda. Villages *Los Barrios de Nistoso *Tabladas y Villar *Brañuelas *Culebros *Manzanal del Puerto *Montealegre, León, Montealegre *Requejo y Corús *La Silva *Ucedo *Valbuena de la Encomienda *Villagatón References External links La Maragatería y Cepeda
Municipalities in the Province of León La Cepeda {{León-geo-stub ...
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Valbuena De La Encomienda
Valbuena de la Encomienda is a locality and ''minor local entity'' located in the municipality of Villagatón, in Province of León, León province, Castile and León, Spain. Its true full name is Valbuena de la Encomienda del Santo Hospital de San Juan de Jerusalem, which points to its origin as the domain of the Knights Hospitallers based a few kilometers away, in the Cueto de San Bartolo Monastery, in Villameca. This village, currently made up of about a dozen inhabited houses, was in its time an important industrial hub, where the mills and ironworks of the region were concentrated, probably under the protection of the adjacent privileges of being a monastic domain. Its territory has been exploited since immemorial time and there are still traces of iron, and even gold, mines. Its ferruginous, sulphurous and magnesium waters were also famous for being beneficial for a large number of conditions, which made the village be placed among the best known for this subject within the ...
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