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The pillory of Picón

Picón, Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real

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The pillory of Picón

Monument · Picón, Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real

Image of Picón, not of the place itself.

El Rollo de Picón is a small stone obelisk that may date from before Roman times. Unlike other medieval rollos or pillories associated with public punishment, scholars suggest it may have had a phallic character and not correspond to that judicial use. Its presence symbolises that Picón was once a town with its own jurisdiction, a distinction that marked its administrative rank compared with other nearby settlements.

Photo: 19Tarrestnom65 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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