Peñaranda De Duero
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Peñaranda de Duero is a village and ''
municipio A ' () or ' () is an administrative division in several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively. It is often translated as "municipality." It comes from ''mūnicipium'' (), meaning a township. In English, a municipality often is define ...
'' located 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 ...
,
Castile and León Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...
, Spain. According to the 2004
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
( INE), the municipality has a population of 583 inhabitants. The village is conserved as a '' conjunto histórico'', a type of conservation area. Several buildings are additionally protected as
monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...
s.


Main sights

* Castle of Peñaranda de Duero (10th–15th century). * Palace of the Counts of Miranda (16th century). * Jimeno's family pharmacy (17th century). * Collegiate church of St. Anne. * Justice pillar.


References

Municipalities in the Province of Burgos {{Burgos-geo-stub