Itero de la Vega

Municipality of Itero de la Vega
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Palencia
Coordinates	42 ° 17 ′  N , 4 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 17 ′  N , 4 ° 15 ′  W
Height :	774  msnm
Area :	20.88 km²
Residents :	152 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	7.28 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	34089
administration
Website :	www.iterodelavega.com

Itero de la Vega is a small town on the Camino de Santiago in the province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile and León .

The name of the village comes - like that of the neighboring village of Itero del Castillo and the nearby bridge Puente de Itero - from the former border location with the county of Castile. Itero comes from Hito - boundary stone , which in turn goes back to the Latin petra ficta - (boundary) stone rammed into the ground . While the county of Castile ended on the other bank of the Pisuerga - today the province of Burgos - the traveler entered the first place of the Tierra de Campos with Itero de la Vega . In the Crónica Albeldense this landscape is mentioned as Campi Gothorum - Gothic fields , today the village is in the province of Palencia.

Attractions

The parish church of San Pedro was built in the 16th century on the foundations of a 13th century church. The Gothic portal from the 13th century was preserved.

At the entrance to the village is the Ermita de la Piedad hermitage , also from the 13th century. It houses a wooden carved figure of Santiago as a pilgrim.

literature

• Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .

Web links

Commons : Itero de la Vega  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

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