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La Noble Junta de Cabezuelas

Trescasas, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

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La Noble Junta de Cabezuelas

Historical milestone · Trescasas, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

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La Noble Junta de Cabezuelas, also known as the Junta de Aguas de la Cacera del Río Cambrones or Junta de Borregos, is a medieval institution that brings together municipalities of Tierras de Segovia to manage the Cambrones river and its irrigation channels. It takes its name from the hamlet of Cáceres or Cabezuelas, an ancestral seat now vanished, between Trescasas and San Cristóbal de Segovia. Since before the 11th century, and documented since 1401, residents have cleaned the Cacera Mayor on the last Saturday of May, a task suspended only in 1937 and 2020; in 1491 the Catholic Monarchs formalised its rights. In 1987 it gave rise to the Mancomunidad de La Atalaya, which brings together the same municipalities and today manages the water, leaving the Junta with only symbolic functions; in 2018 it halted an attempted expropriation by the Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero.

documentada desde 1401

Photo: Arturo Francisco Barbero (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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