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What to see and do in Gejuelo del Barro

What to see and do in Gejuelo del Barro (Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature

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The dolmen of the Casa del Moro 5.4 km

Towns near Gejuelo del Barro

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What to see and do in Gejuelo del Barro

Gejuelo del Barro
Village
Gejuelo del Barro is a municipality of only 31 inhabitants with a district of 43 square kilometres, in the Salmantine comarca of the Tierra de Ledesma, made up, besides the main settlement, of Muélledes and Valrubio and of the depopulated hamlets of Calzadilla del Campo and La Huérfana. Its name is documented in the 13th century as Sexolo, a form that became Xexuelo in the 15th before settling as Gejuelo. Settlement goes back to prehistory, with the dolmen of the Casa del Moro in the dehesa of Muélledes, from the fourth millennium BC and preserved practically intact, although the present village arose from the Leonese repopulations of the 11th and 12th centuries. In the mid-19th century it had 75 inhabitants, and its economy has rested on farming, livestock and a spa.
The dolmen of the Casa del Moro
Nature
The dolmen of the Casa del Moro is located on the Muélledes estate, in the south-western corner of the municipality of Gejuelo del Barro, and was discovered in 1915 by César Morán Bardón. It is the best preserved in the province of Salamanca: a passage grave with a circular chamber about 3.30 metres in diameter, formed by ten granite orthostats, and a passage of more than 6 metres oriented south-east, of which three original covering slabs survive. The complex occupies the central part of a sub-circular mound 31 by 27 metres and a little over 1.5 metres in average height. Excavations have uncovered materials from the third millennium BC, typical of the dolmen culture, together with a later Bell Beaker occupation. It was declared an archaeological zone on 4 December 1997. The municipality, which in the 13th century was called Sexolo in the Leonese language, today has barely thirty-one inhabitants.