Lara de los Infantes | |
Settlement Type: | town |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Name1: | Castile and León |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Burgos |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Sierra de la Demanda |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Jurisdicción de Lara |
Lara de los Infantes is a town with 26 inhabitants in the province of Burgos in the autonomous region of Castille y León in Spain.
It is the seat of the municipality of Jurisdicción de Lara, which includes a few more inhabitants as it includes other localities like Paúles de Lara, and Aceña de Lara. It is situated in the shire of Sierra de la Demanda 45 kilometers from the city of Burgos.
Although sparsely populated today, the area was important in Roman times. In the Middle Ages it formed part of the Alfoz of Lara, where the Lara family had its hereditary base, and its full name, Lara de los Infante (Lara of the Princes) reflects that family's legend, told in the Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara.