Villadangos del Páramo .

VILLADANGOS DEL PÁRAMO

The Villadangos of the time, or as it was known at that time, Viadangos, remained similar to the current structure. Remember that the Real street, that even now know, was the leitmotif of medieval pilgrims walking to Santiago, following the route of the French way.

When placed on the northern fringe of the Iberian Peninsula it is crossed from east to west, along the Via Jacobea. This fact, we should not forget at any time since this town makes a very representative of the Cantabrian medieval culture example. However, our Paramés journey should not be limited to such a broad set, but rather believe in a more regional identity characterized by a number of peculiarities. Villadangos seems to have had its origin in a Astur settlement, conquered by the Romans without violence. In medieval times, and the result of the bloody Muslim incursions, our town gets to undergo its abandonment towards year 714. For a century and a half, the Leon plateau will remain vacated until repopulation carried out by the kings of Leon, at the end the ninth century or early tenth through small households. Villadangos was scene of an armed confrontation between Galician Urraca and Alfonso I of Aragon supporters The Battler, that the possession of Prince Alfonso, son of the first and future Alfonso VII fought. This fact, which we’ll discuss later, it happened not far from the current Barrio Station at the end of September 1111, in the place known as “La Matanza”.