Palazuelos de Eresma explained

Official Name:	Palazuelos de Eresma
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Pushpin Map:	Spain Castile and León#Spain
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Spain.
Subdivision Name3:	Palazuelos de Eresma
Area Total Km2:	36.70
Elevation M:	1079
Population Density Km2:	auto
Utc Offset:	+1
Utc Offset Dst:	+2

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.^[1]

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;^{[2] [3]}
• 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;^[4]
• 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;^[5]
• Bridge of the Merinas over the Eresma.^{[6] [7]}

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (Spanish Statistical Institute) . 2022-11-06 . www.ine.es.
2. Web site: Segovia . El Adelantado de . 2021-06-04 . La iglesia de Palazuelos ya luce remodelada . 2022-11-06 . www.eladelantado.com . es.
3. Web site: Palazuelos de Eresma . 2022-11-06 . www.parquenacionalsierraguadarrama.es . en-gb.
4. Web site: Palazuelos de Eresma . 2022-11-06 . segoviaturismo.es.
5. Web site: Collado (*) . María Fuencisla Álvarez . 2021-05-30 . Las Caceras. Tradición, Patrimonio e Historia. Los casos de Cambrones y Navalcaz . 2022-11-06 . www.eladelantado.com . es.
6. Web site: Restos arqueologicos y Edificios Históricos . 2022-11-06 . palazuelosdeeresma.es . es.
7. Book: Muñoz, Daniel . Palazuelos de Eresma . 2009 . Mediterráneo-Meral . Francisco Gracia Abril . 978-84-936912-5-7 . Boadilla del Monte, Madrid . 777133419.