Carrión de los Condes

Carrión de los Condes
Municipality
Coat of arms
Carrión de los Condes Location in Spain
Coordinates:
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Palencia
Comarca	Tierra de Campos
Government
• Mayor	Francisco Javier Villafruela Fierro
Area
• Total	63.37 km2 (24.47 sq mi)
Elevation	830 m (2,720 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	2,302
• Density	36/km2 (94/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Carrionéses
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	34120
Website	Official website

Carrión de los Condes (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈri̯on de los ˈkondes]) is a municipality in the province of Palencia, part of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León, Spain.

It is 40 kilometers from Palencia, on the Way of Saint James.

History

Carrión de los Condes was taken from the Moors by Alonso Carreño around 791–842. Don Carreño took the name Carrión at this time.

Carrión de los Condes was the home of Diego and Fernán González, fictitious sons-in-law of El Cid in the poem El Cantar de Mio Cid (English: The Song of My Cid).

In 1209, Hospital de la Herrada was established by Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón de Jacob, a Palencia tycoon who became steward of the king, to provide assistance to the Jacobean pilgrims and other travelers. It had considerable influence and power in the area in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Jewish presence in Carrión

The town was inhabited by Jews at an early date. Although they outnumbered the Christians both in numbers and in property, they submitted in 1126 to the victorious King Alfonso VI, who showed himself favorably disposed toward them.

In 1160 many of them settled in the neighboring city of Palencia.

The Jewish community of Carrion was so large in 1290 that it paid 92,000 maravedis in taxes, not much less than the amount paid by the community of Burgos. In Carrion, as elsewhere, the Jews were persecuted. Delegates from the city appeared before King Alphonso of Castile (probably Alfonso the Wise), informing him that the Christians of the city, because of a groundless suspicion, had risen against the Jews and killed two of them; that thereupon the Jews had sought refuge in the palace of the prince, who was absent at the time, and, when the Christians followed in pursuit, had escaped through a secret door leading into the court, and locked their pursuers in.

Main sights

• Church of Santa María de las Victorias, 12th century, in Romanesque style
• Romanesque church of Santiago 13th century. It houses the Pantocrator, considered a masterpiece of Romanesque sculpture.
• Monastery of Santa Clara, 13th century
• Monastery of San Zoilo (11th-16th centuries) with a Plateresque Cloister.
• Romanesque tombs of the Counts that lived there.
• Churches of Belén, San Andrés and San Julián

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  A page of the poem The Lay of the Cid, in which second and third books the fictitious Infantes de Carrión (Princes of Carrión) play an anthagonistic role.

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  Monastery of San Zoilo´s Cloister

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  Statue of Saint James as a moor-slayer

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  Church of Belén, built in the 16th and 17th centuries

Twin towns

• Carrión de los Céspedes, Spain
• Carrión de Calatrava, Spain

See also

• Carrión River

Sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 

External links

• Pueblos Palencia (Spanish)
• Carrión de los Condes (Spanish)