Lara de los Infantes is a town with 27 inhabitants in the

province of Burgos The province of Burgos is a Provinces of Spain, province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia (p ...

in the autonomous region of Castille y León in

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. It is the seat of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Jurisdicción de Lara Jurisdicción de Lara () is a municipality in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. It had a population of 59 at the 2004 census ( INE). The municipality is made up of three towns: Lara de los Infantes (seat or capital), Aceña de ...

, which includes a few more inhabitants as it includes other localities like

Paúles de Lara Paúles de Lara is a village in the municipality of Jurisdicción de Lara, located southeast of the province of Burgos, belonging to the autonomous community of Castilla y León (Spain). It is situated 40 km from the capital, Burgos Bur ...

, and

Aceña de Lara Aceña de Lara or La Aceña is a village in the municipality of Jurisdicción de Lara, located southeast of the province of Burgos, Castilla y León Castile, Castille or Castilla may refer to: Places Spain * Castile (historical region), a va ...

. It is situated in the shire of

Sierra de la Demanda Sierra de la Demanda is a mountain sub-range situated in the northern Iberian Peninsula. The Sierra de la Demanda area provides the habitat for '' Lissotriton helveticus punctillatus'' (Schmidtler 1970), a subspecies of the palmate newt. Geogr ...

45 kilometers from the city of

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populous municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of th ...

. Although sparsely populated today, the area was important in Roman times. In the Middle Ages, it formed part of the Alfoz of Lara, where the

Lara family The House of Lara (Spanish: ''Casa de Lara'') is a noble family from the medieval Kingdom of Castile. Two of its branches, one of the Dukes of Nájera and one of the Marquises of Aguilar de Campoo were considered Grandees of Spain. The Lara famil ...

had its hereditary base, and its full name, Lara de los Infante (Lara of the Princes) reflects that family's legend, told in the ''

Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara The ''Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara'' ("Song of the Seven Lara Princes") is a legend, perhaps derived from a lost ''cantar de gesta'', that relates a tale of family feuding and revenge, centering on the murder of the eponymous seven ''infan ...

''.

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Populated places in the Province of Burgos {{Burgos-geo-stub