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What to see and do in Piña de Esgueva

What to see and do in Piña de Esgueva (Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

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La Torre Mazariegos 2.3 km

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What to see and do in Piña de Esgueva

Piña de Esgueva
Village
Piña de Esgueva is a village in Valladolid of 313 inhabitants, in the Páramos del Esgueva comarca, on the banks of the river of the same name and near the boundary with Palencia. It was not resettled until the early 11th century, and in 1280 it appears recorded in the archive of Palencia cathedral as Pynna del Valle Esgueva; in 1345 its church, served by three priests, a subdeacon and three graderos, belonged to that diocese. It formed part of the Infantazgo de Valladolid, under the joint lordship of the monastery of Matallana, the Orden de San Juan, and the sons of Juan Rodríguez de Quiñones. In the 17th century it suffered heavy depopulation, down to only twenty residents. It preserves fine examples of traditional architecture and noble houses, and its Romanesque church from the 12th and 13th centuries retains a tower and an apse.
The Romanesque church of Nuestra Señora de Piña
Monument
A Romanesque building from the 12th and 13th centuries with two naves covered by ribbed vaults; in the 18th century they were covered with plasterwork, adding a Baroque layer over the original medieval structure. It is the parish church of Piña de Esgueva; it belonged to the diocese of Palencia and since 1955 has formed part of the archdiocese of Valladolid. It originally had a single nave with a star-ribbed vault and an apse-ended chancel, entered through a round triumphal arch; the second nave and the tower at the foot of the church were added in the Early Modern period. The apse preserves a window with Romanesque archivolts and corbels carved with zoomorphic heads and pine cones, and on the south wall opens the original doorway, with a pointed arch and capitals carved with lions and griffins.
La Torre Mazariegos
Monument
About five kilometres from the village stands, solitary, the bell gable of a vanished Romanesque church, known as the Torre Mazariegos; beside it traces of a settlement of the Visigothic period have been identified.
Pynna del Valle Esgueva
Historical milestone
The first documentary mention of the place dates from 1280, in the form Pynna del Valle Esgueva. In 1345 the ecclesiastical records counted in the villa three priests and auxiliary clergy, a sign of a then much larger population.