Villalcázar de Sirga .

VILLALCÁZAR DE SIRGA

Villacázar place name comes from the Latin noun agglutination “villa” (fifth, farm, etc.) plus the Arab “Quars” (palace or fortress). Lo de Sirga regards so is called the old French Way.

Already in 1069 documentation, this villa was quoted as Villasirga in reference to the route or path passing through nearby.

A mid-fourteenth century there were three churches in Villasirga that advocaban to San Pedro, Santa Marta and San Cebrián. But there were two who were under the invocation of Santa Maria: A current parish and the other, the current hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Rio, who was also parish. In the early years of the thirteenth century, the church of San Pedro was typical of the Monastery of San Zoilo of Carrión, and in that fourteenth century appeared the Shrine of Our Lady White, of Templar origin. Pilgrims could also visit the chapel of Santo Cristo del Humilladero.

It was St. Mary of the 28 parcels of the Order of the Temple in the crown of Castile by 1307, and only in Palencia Temple. the title of Count of Villalcázar of Sirga, then leave as lord of the town to the bishop of Palencia was created in 1661.

Villalcázar had in the late sixteenth century with about 1100 inhabitants in the mid-nineteenth 484 in 1900 to 695 in 1930 to 619 in 1960 and 550 in 2005 to 220.