The lagoon that gave the village its name Nature · Pajares de la Laguna, La Armuña, Salamanca Image of Pajares de la Laguna, not of the place itself. The municipality was called Pallares in the Middle Ages and only in 1916, by royal decree, added «de la Laguna» in allusion to a lagoon that existed beside the houses and that ended up drained in the second third of the twentieth century. Photo: Hovallef (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Pajares de la Laguna