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Justice pillar and town charter

Vertavillo, El Cerrato, Palencia

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Justice pillar and town charter

Historical milestone · Vertavillo, El Cerrato, Palencia

Image of Vertavillo, not of the place itself.

Carlos I granted Vertavillo the title of town with its own jurisdiction in 1532, and the households celebrated it by raising the sixteenth-century justice pillar that still marks the centre of the historic quarter.

1532

Photo: Rodelar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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