Villamuriel de Cerrato
Villamuriel de Cerrato is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2024 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 6,502 inhabitants. Every year on May 1st, there is a pilgrimage from Palencia to Villamuriel de Cerrato to honor María Auxiliadora. Fr Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (2008-2016), was born in Villamuriel de Cerrato in 1936.
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Venta de Baños is a small town and municipality of about 6,400 inhabitants located in the Cerrato district of the province of Palencia, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in central Spain. It lies some 10 km south of the provincial capital, Palencia. Noteworthy monuments include the medieval Church of San Juan Bautista which is believed to be Visigothic.
Renfe and the Cerealto food-sector company are the main employers in the municipality.
In popular culture and among Spanish railway travellers, Venta de Baños has traditionally had the same sort of iconic status as other great railway junctions of the world, such as Crewe in the UK. Before the advent of dedicated high-speed rail routes and cheaper air travel, it was the principal transfer point for travellers between the north-east and north-west regions of Spain and the south. Generations of railway passengers have memories of the waiting rooms and cafeteria at Venta de Baños.
The town hosts an annual international cross country running competition, the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños, which has featured some of the world's foremost cross country athletes including Kenenisa Bekele and Palencian-born Marta Domínguez.
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The Hospital de la Herrada, also Hospital de Santa María de la Herrada was a hospital and college in the town of Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, Spain, established in 1209 by Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, a Palencia tycoon who became steward of the king, to provide assistance to pilgrims on the Way of St James and other travelers.
The hospital and Giron appear to have had considerable power in the medieval period. Three years after its founding, Girón made a provision to the Bishop Tello Téllez and his council, with estates and belongings such as the churches of Cordovilla, mills, orchards, fields and vineyards of Villanueva del Rebollar, Cardeñosa de Volpejera, Revenga de Campos, Villasabariego de Ucieza, Villaturde and Boedo de Castrejón. Later in the thirteenth century, the Hospital granted a charter of Villaturde, Quintanilla de Onsoña and Vega de Doña Olimpa. In 1324, the Hospital granted a charter to statutory Vega de Doña Olimpa.
Nothing remains of it now, but it is known that it was located in an area that is known as today as "la huerta de la Herrada".
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Estadio Nueva Balastera is a football stadium in Palencia, Spain. It is the home ground of CF Palencia. The stadium holds 8,100 and was built in 2006, replacing the old La Balastera, built in 1943.
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The Diocese of Palencia is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Palencia in the ecclesiastical province of Burgos, Spain.
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The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Antoninus is a Roman Catholic church located in Palencia, Spain. It is dedicated to Saint Antoninus of Pamiers.