Carrión de los Condes

Coordinates: 42°20′N 4°36′W / 42.333°N 4.600°W / 42.333; -4.600
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Carrión de los Condes
Municipality
Pantocrátor de la iglesia de Santiago
Claustro del Monasterio de San Zoilo
Ayuntamiento de Carrión de los Condes
Interior de Santa María del Camino
Alfombras florales del día del Corpus a la altura de la iglesia de Santa María
Puente sobre el río Carrión
Postal code
34120
WebsiteOfficial website

Carrión de los Condes (Spanish pronunciation:

Autonomous Community of Castile and León
, Spain.

It is 40 kilometers from

Way of Saint James
.

History

Carrión de los Condes was taken from the Moors by Alonso Carreño around 791–842.[citation needed] 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 Cantar de Mio Cid
(English: The Song of My Cid).

In 1072, after losing the nearby

Alfonso VI of León took refuge in Carrion's Church of Santa María de las Victorias, (or Santa Maria del Camino.) Alfonso ultimately chose exile, where he sought refuge in Toledo, which was then in Moorish hands.[2]

In 1209, Hospital de la Herrada was established by Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, a Palencia tycoon who became steward of the king, to provide assistance to the Jacobean pilgrims and other travelers.[3][4] 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 VII, who showed himself favourably disposed towards them.

In 1160 many of them settled in the neighbouring 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. [citation needed
]

Main sights
  • 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.
    A page of the
    The Lay of the Cid
    , in which second and third books the fictitious Infantes de Carrión (Princes of Carrión) play an anthagonistic role.
  • Monastery of San Zoilo's Cloister
    Monastery of San Zoilo's Cloister
  • Statue of Saint James as a moor-slayer
    Statue of Saint James as a moor-slayer
  • Church of Belén, built in the 16th and 17th centuries
    Church of Belén, built in the 16th and 17th centuries

Twin towns

See also

  • Carrión River

Sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard Gottheil and Meyer Kayserling (1901–1906). "Carrion de los Condes". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

References

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ISBN 0-312-25416-4
  3. ^ King, Georgiana Goddard (1920). The Way of Saint James. G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 102. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  4. ISBN 978-84-7490-693-6
    . Retrieved 30 May 2012.

External links
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