Palazuelos de Eresma

40°55′49″N 4°3′40″W / 40.93028°N 4.06111°W / 40.93028; -4.06111Country SpainAutonomous community Castile and LeónProvince SegoviaMunicipalityPalazuelos de EresmaArea • Total36.70 km² (14.17 sq mi)Elevation1,079 m (3,540 ft)Population • Total5,308 • Density140/km² (370/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)ClimateCsbWebsiteOfficial website

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.^[2]

Culture

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;^[3][4]
• 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;^[5]
• 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;^[6]
• Bridge of the Merinas over the Eresma.^[7][8]

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.

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