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What to see and do in Castellanos de Moriscos

What to see and do in Castellanos de Moriscos (La Armuña, Salamanca): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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The church of San Esteban 300 m

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What to see and do in Castellanos de Moriscos

Castellanos de Moriscos
Village
Castellanos de Moriscos is a municipality in the La Armuña comarca, in the province of Salamanca, with about 3,100 inhabitants; its territory includes, besides the main settlement, an industrial estate, the La Almunia development and several depopulated hamlets. It is documented in the 13th century as Castellanos de Morisco, having been resettled with people who came from Castile within the Kingdom of León. In the mid-19th century it had only 312 inhabitants, and in 1826 barely 221; in the first two decades of the 21st century it experienced extraordinary growth. Its parish church of San Esteban was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 29 April 1999. The municipality today has a metropolitan transport service and the Albertia Castellanos retirement home.
The church of San Esteban
Monument
The church of San Esteban, a 16th-century work, has a single nave that narrows towards the main chapel, with a sacristy added later and a tower at the foot; it is divided into three bays by round arches on pilasters, which translate on the outside into powerful buttresses, and is covered by a simple two-pitched timber roof frame, while the main chapel displays a ribbed vault. Its portal, with clear Hontañón-style features, is arranged in two tiers with medallions, a shell-headed niche and scrolled brackets, crowned by a triangular pediment. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 29 April 1999, it is the historic building of a municipality that the proximity of Salamanca has taken from the 312 inhabitants recorded by Madoz to more than three thousand.