La Matilla separates from Valleruela Historical milestone · La Matilla, Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Pedraza, Segovia Image of La Matilla, not of the place itself. The village, which in the mid-nineteenth century had some 132 houses raised on rock and lived off cereal and flax mills, constituted itself as a municipality of its own on separating from Valleruela de Pedraza in 1857. 1857 Photo: Benjamín Núñez González (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in La Matilla