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The oldest municipality in Spain

Brañosera, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

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The oldest municipality in Spain

Curiosity · Brañosera, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

The settlement charter of the year 824 formally constituted the first documented local administrative organisation on the peninsula, from which the present municipalities derive; for this reason Brañosera claims to be the country's first municipal council.

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