Villamuriel de Cerrato

Villamuriel de Cerrato municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Palencia
Comarca :	El Cerrato
Coordinates	41 ° 57 ′  N , 4 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 57 ′  N , 4 ° 31 ′  W
Area :	40.02 km²
Residents :	6,469 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	161.64 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	34190
Municipality number  ( INE ):	34225

Santa María la Mayor church with bell tower

Santa María la Mayor Church (apse)

Villamuriel de Cerrato is a Spanish municipality with 6,469 inhabitants in the province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon .

The church of Santa María la Mayor in Villamuriel de Cerrato is a Catholic church that was built in the 13th century in the early Gothic or Proto-Gothic style and within which can still be seen as a transition into the Romanesque. Its refined architecture, free of any reconstruction or subsequent extensions of various styles (except in the tower), makes it a cultural monument in Castilla y León. Its most outstanding element is the octagonal dome on a radial vault with Romanesque representations.

Adolfo Nicolás SJ (1936-2020) was born in Villamuriel de Cerrato. He was a Spanish Jesuit and Roman Catholic theologian and from 2008 to 2016 the 30th General of the Jesuits.

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).