Calzada del Coto .

CALZADA DEL COTO

The history of Spain not be explained without the worship given to the apostle Santiago without pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, where the body of Jesus’ disciple stood, slain in Palestine and moved to Spain

Country which had previously Christianized, according to the widespread tradition before the arrival of the Arabs.

Faith in the presence of the apostle spiritually held the Reconquista, its cult determined edilicios grandiose building along the road used by pilgrims and influenced the literature, both Spanish and European. Between the ninth and seventeenth centuries pilgrims were many, uniting with their presence the Spanish culture and language with the rest of Europe.

Some prehistoric remains.

A few years ago he was found in the people an Punta Palmela, Chalcolithic period (beginning of the Bronze Age (2000-1600 BC.) belonging to the Campaniforme culture.

Also in Cea, Grajal and Gordaliza have found several axes and sword Arganco type.

The Roman peoples.

You may Celts, Vacceos, and even Astures and Cantabrians, occupy these fields (Celtic remains in place names are common). The presence of so many people in such a small area, start one of the key features in the history of these villages: the crossroads of different peoples, with different cultures and languages, mixed and overlapping.

The Roman invasion.

Conquered Numancia in 153 a. C., Leon fell into the hands of the Romans, who began organizing their conquests dividing Hispania Citerior and Ulterior; later converted into Tarraconensis, Lusitania and Baetica (27 BC.).

Calzada would be within the Citerior Tarraconensis then. Years later Gallaecia was created, which belonged Calzada for some time, as evidenced by some documents. After the conquest of Hispania, first century. C., a crowd of colonists, merchants, officials, soldiers .., settled in new lands and began the Romanization, which was not particularly difficult.

There is no news of the existence of Roman villas in the village; only in Valdelaguna it is known that in the second century. C. there was a Roman villa, which some mosaics preserved.

Despite this lack of evidence, it is very likely that some Calzada, not particularly rich, attracted by the ease of communication or the proximity of water Roman families to settle.