El Burgo Ranero .

EL BURGO RANERO

This Leon locality is closely linked to the Camino de Santiago, route through its current street, original nucleus of the municipality.

The first documentary reference is dated in 1126, when it appears documented as “village of Sahagún”. Here some burghers-merchants and artisans thrive through the route, prosperity is reflected in the magnificent Romanesque statue of the Virgin which is guarded in the parish church of San Pedro -now in the Cathedral Museum to be established Lion-. Another sign of its importance in medieval times found in the Burgo is the cradle of illustrious men, as Pedro del Burgo, abbot of Sahagún for 20 years in the fifteenth century. The town was declared a Historic in 1962 delimiting the area affected by this statement in a decree issued by the Castile and Leon region in 1999.
In the near El Burgo Ranero places there was a curious episode narrated by Domenico Laffi pilgrim in the seventeenth century, related to the death of a pilgrim who was devoured by wolves.