Cezura is a district and Spanish town of the municipality of Pomar de Valdivia , belonging to the province of Palencia , in the autonomous community of Castile and León . The town, which is located in the region of Montaña Palentina , constitutes a exclave of Palentina within Cantabria .
14-570: Capillas is a Spanish municipality located in the province of Palencia , Castile and León. In 2013, its population was 86. The town was first mentioned in 916 as Fonte de Capela , one of the first settlements of the region. Its name, in Spanish, means "chapels". Capillas, part of the comarca of Tierra de Campos , is 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Palencia and 52 kilometres (32 mi)from Valladolid . The municipality borders Boada de Campos , Castil de Vela , Castromocho , Gatón de Campos (in
28-587: Is a province of northern Spain , in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula . It is bordered by the provinces of León , Cantabria , Burgos , and Valladolid . Of the population of 176,125 (2002), 45% live in the capital, Palencia which is located on the Canal de Castilla . There are 191 municipalities in the province, of which more than half are villages with fewer than 200 people. The majority of
42-519: Is given in the following chart: [REDACTED] Media related to Province of Palencia at Wikimedia Commons Cezura It is part of the province of Palencia, in Cantabria , specifically in the municipality of Valderredible . Access via CA-273 and PP-6300 . The town belongs to the province of Palencia because in the Middle Ages it belonged to an abadengo lordship linked to Palencia, so in
56-421: The province of Valladolid ), Meneses de Campos and Villarramiel . Francisco Blanco Salcedo , born here in 1512, was Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela for seven years. [REDACTED] Media related to Capillas at Wikimedia Commons This article about a location in the province of Palencia, Spain is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Province of Palencia Palencia
70-455: The centre of the province's coal mining industry, was the largest town in the province until the 1960s. Towns in the centre of the province include: Saldaña , known for the famous mosaics at the nearby Roman villa of La Olmeda, Herrera de Pisuerga , a village known for its summer activities and Crab Festival and Carrión de los Condes , a key monastery town on the Camino de Santiago . To the south of
84-607: The city of Palencia are Venta de Baños , an important railway and industrial exchange, as well as Villamuriel de Cerrato , a village to that owes its development to the Renault factory and its proximity to the capital. During the Middle Ages, the Visigoths ruled Palencia. Basílica de San Juan, the oldest Visigothic church in Spain, was built in 661 in the province's Baños de Cerrato . During
98-513: The former being under 200 metres and the latter being just over 200 metres from the border at their closest point. In Palencia large protected areas such as the Natural Park of Fuentes Carrionas and Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palencia are located. The term historical region in Palencia, refers to those regions created in the fourteenth century, under the name merindades. Cantabrian Mountains are located in
112-465: The northerns parts of the province. The 8,268 feet (2,520 metres) high Curavacas peak is located in the province. The major commercial products produced in the province are barley, wheat, sugar beets, hemp, linen and woolen clothes, porcelain, leather, paper, and rugs. Food processing and metallurgy are major industries. The province has three judicial districts–one each in Palencia, Carrión de los Condes and Cervera de Pisuerga. The historical population
126-580: The province is very sparsely-populated and has lost a significant proportion of its population since Francoist times due to rural to urban migration. The major towns in the northern Montaña Palentina are: Guardo , a former coal mining town; Aguilar de Campoo , a historic town famous for its biscuit production and Cervera de Pisuerga , a tourist town situated at the beginning of the Ruta de los Pantanos (the Reservoirs Route) and Barruelo de Santullán , which, as
140-422: The province of Palencia (17 leg.), part. jud. of Cervera de Rio Pisuerga (5 1/2), dioc. de Burgos (12), aud. terr. and c. g. from Valladolid (25): sit. in a valley surrounded by slopes and bushes; The climate is cold and humid, due to the much snow that falls during the winter, and the winds that prevail most frequently are from the N. and S. It has 7 houses , a fountain within the population, and several in
154-566: The provincial division it was integrated into this province and not into Cantabria . After the fall of the Ancien Régime the locality became constitutional municipality that in the census of 1842 it had 6 households and 31 neighbors. By the middle of the c. 19th century , the place had 7 houses counted. It is described in the sixth volume of Pascual Madoz's Geographical-statistical-historical dictionary of Spain and its overseas possessions as follows: CEZURA: l. with council in
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#1732863168362168-421: The soil; and the correspondence is received from Aguilar de Campó by the same interested parties. prod. : rye and oats; cattle and goats, and hunting partridges and hares in abundance. ind. : the agricultural one. pop. : 6 times, 31 alm. chap. prod. : 7,600 rs. imp. : 630. The municipal budget amounts to 360 rs., and is covered by the prod. of pastures and by neighborhood distribution. Between
182-409: The term. of fresh and thin waters, and an igloo. parr., dedicated to Santiago Apóstol. Confine N. Munilla; E. Valdelomar; S. Elecha, and O. Quintanilla de las Torres. The terrain is hilly and bushy, and the little that is cultivated is of poor quality, with holm oaks being found in all places, although sparsely populated. The roads are from town to town, in very poor condition due to the nature of
196-509: The thirteenth century a university was founded in the province. It was the first university in Spain and one of the first in the world. It was later shifted to Valladolid. The province is bordered on the north by Cantabria , on the west by the province of León , on the east by the province of Burgos and on the south by the province of Valladolid . Two exclaves of the province, Cezura , and Lastrilla , are enclaves within Campoo , Cantabria, with
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