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What to see and do in Bustillo del Páramo

What to see and do in Bustillo del Páramo (El Páramo, León): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments

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Parish church of Grisuela del Páramo 3.2 km

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What to see and do in Bustillo del Páramo

Bustillo del Páramo
Village
Bustillo del Páramo is a municipality in the Páramo Leonés, in the province of León, that groups together eight villages — Bustillo itself, Acebes, Antoñanes, Barrio de Buenos Aires, Grisuela, La Milla, Matalobos and San Pedro de Pegas — with its own Junta Vecinal and a little over a thousand inhabitants. After growing between 1920 and 1960, when it reached its historic peak of 3,237 residents, it has seen a progressive depopulation ever since. In its main village stands the church of San Pedro Apóstol, and a monument to the farmer recalls its farming vocation. Literary tradition places here the birth of Juanillo Ponce, protagonist of the novel Maluco by Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León and one of the nineteen survivors of Magallanes and Elcano's first circumnavigation of the world.
Parish church of Grisuela del Páramo
Monument
A single-nave church, characteristic of the churches of the León Páramo region and the best-preserved example, built with traditional materials -Arabic tile, rammed earth and wood- except for the masonry and exposed brick of the bell-gable and belfry. Octagonal in plan, it is notable for its coffered timber ceiling (alfarje) with a series of mouldings forming a kind of entablature. On the main altarpiece an inscription dated 1777 marks its date, and the carving of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, patron of the parish, presides over the ensemble. Declared a monument on 17 November 1975, it is the only protection of that rank in a municipality of eight settlements spread across the plain between the Órbigo and the upper Páramo.
Church of San Pedro Apóstol de Bustillo
Monument
The parish of the municipal capital, under the patronage of Saint Peter the Apostle and served by a single priest, already mentioned by Madoz in the mid-19th century as a place of seventy houses set on a long plain, with free ventilation and a healthy climate, with 70 residents and 240 souls, next to a spring whose waters were considered among the best in the country and which served for drinking and other domestic uses.