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The village once called Casas del Puerto de Tornavacas

Puerto Castilla, El Barco de Ávila - Piedrahíta, Ávila

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The village once called Casas del Puerto de Tornavacas

Curiosity · Puerto Castilla, El Barco de Ávila - Piedrahíta, Ávila

Image of Puerto Castilla, not of the place itself.

That was the name under which Madoz's dictionary recorded it in the mid-nineteenth century, when it gathered 549 inhabitants between two sierras and beside the pass. Today the municipal register does not reach a hundred residents.

Photo: Falk2 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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