Palazuelos de Eresma facts for kids

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Municipality
Town Hall of Palazuelos de Eresma
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Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Segovia
Municipality	Palazuelos de Eresma
Area
• Total	36.70 km2 (14.17 sq mi)
Elevation	1,079 m (3,540 ft)
Population  (2018)
• Total	5,308
• Density	144.63/km2 (374.60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Climate	Csb

Palazuelos de Eresma is a municipality located in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain. It takes its name from the River Eresma.

Demography

According to the 2021 census (INE), the municipality had a population o5 59793 inhabitants.

Culture

The Barbers bunker from the Civil War, located in the Balcón de Pilatos area next to the Eresma River

Church of the Assumption

Cacera de Navalcaz as it passes through Parque Robledo

Heritage

• Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in the late Gothic style, originally Romanesque, was restored in 2021. It has a Baroque main altarpiece, a silver processional cross and a Monstrance of the Sun created in Segovia in the 18th century;
• Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary;
• DYC whiskey factory, founded in 1959 by Nicomedes García;
• Boilers of the Cambrones river;
• Alto Eresma Green Path;
• Remains of a Roman villa and later Visigothic necropolis;
• The Barbers bunker with origins in the Civil War, located in a place known as the Balcón de Pilatos located next to the river Eresma;
• Hermitage of San Antonio de Padua;
• Remains of the old paper factory of the old Marqués del Arco mill;
• Estate and royal palace of the Quinta de Quitapesares;
• Remains of the buckle factory, the old Gamones mill;
• Remains of shearing ranches;
• Shoe rack, next to the Trescasas road;
• Caceras del Cambrones and Navalcaz;
• Bridge of the Merinas over the Eresma.

Holidays

Throughout the municipality

• Battering;
• Cacera Mayor Day, last Saturday of May.

Palazuelos de Eresma

• Anthony of Padua, June 13;
• Assumption of Mary, on August 15.

See also

In Spanish: Palazuelos de Eresma para niños