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What to see and do in Atienza

What to see and do in Atienza (Serranía de Guadalajara, Guadalajara): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Historical milestones

Towns near Atienza

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What to see and do in Atienza

Atienza
Village
Municipality of the comarca of Serranía de Guadalajara, in the province of Guadalajara, on which Alfonso VII conferred a fuero in 1149 and around which he organised a Comunidad de Villa y Tierra that came to group 131 hamlets over some 2,500 square kilometres, a structure that governed for centuries the pastures, woods and concejos, the town councils, of the range; every Whit Sunday the confraternity of la Caballada recalls the flight of the child Alfonso VIII, carried out of the town by its muleteers among the pack trains.
The Community of Villa y Tierra of Atienza
Historical milestone
Alfonso VII granted a charter to Atienza in 1149 and organized around it a Community of Town and Land that came to group together 131 villages over some 2,500 square kilometres, and which for centuries was the structure that governed the pastures, woodlands and councils of the sierra. It enjoyed great prosperity until the 14th century, when it came to have as many as 8,000 inhabitants, before entering a slow decline at the expense of the rise of neighbouring Sigüenza. As the Partido de Atienza it belonged to the Intendencia of Soria, within Old Castile, until the new provincial division of 1833 incorporated it into the province of Guadalajara, today in Castilla-La Mancha.
The Caballada and the boy king
Historical milestone
Tradition places in 1162 the flight of Alfonso VIII, then a child, taken out of Atienza by the town's muleteers disguised among their pack trains to save him from his pursuers. The confraternity of La Caballada recalls it every Whit Sunday.