Santo Domingo de Pirón is a municipality located in the

province of Segovia Segovia () is a province of central/northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the province of Burgos in the north, Soria in the northeast, Guadalajara in the east, Madrid in the south, ...

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 2020

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 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

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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 ...

Legend of the Tuerto de Pirón.

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, better known as

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

and part of

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. 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 {{Segovia-geo-stub