It discovers Pedraza

Pedraza of the Saw

Pedraza, locality and municipality of the province of Segovia (Spain), placed to 37 km to the Northeast of cardinal Segovia and with a resident population of 477 persons (INE 2006). It is a question of a walled medieval town, which elegant rehabilitation motivated his declaration as Monumental Set in 1951. It results from special interest to visit the ancient jail today turned into museum. Resulta de especial interés visitar la antigua cárcel, hoy convertida en museo.

Curiosities

Of Pedraza they were several conquerors who founded the cities of Pedraza and Pedraza Piece of news in the Venezuelan Barinas state. The city of Our Lady of Pedraza was founded by Gonzalo Piña Ludueña, native of Gibraltar, in 1591, in honor of Dr. Antonio González, governor of the New Kingdom of Granada, who was a native of the town from Segovia of Pedraza. The beginning of this city were quite hard and it was destroyed in several occasions by the jirajaras, up to the point of which they ended up by founding another city a few years later more to the east, with the same name of Pedraza. Nevertheless, as the ancient population continued in spite of everything in the original place, they began to differ with the names of Pedraza and Pedraza Piece of news, the last one with the current name of City Bolivia, of more than 20.000 inhabitants, capital of the municipality Pedraza. A good example of what meant the Spanish work in America with the emigration (that caused the depopulation of many Spanish regions) and the colonization and foundation of 40.000 cities in the New World. Los comienzos de esta ciudad fueron bastante duros y fue destruida en varias ocasiones por los jirajaras, hasta el punto de que terminaron fundando otra ciudad unos años después más hacia el este, con el mismo nombre de Pedraza. Sin embargo, como la antigua población continuó a pesar de todo en la ubicación original, comenzaron a diferenciarse con los nombres de Pedraza y Pedraza La Nueva, esta última con el nombre actual de Ciudad Bolivia, de más de 20.000 habitantes, capital del municipio Pedraza. Un buen ejemplo de lo que significó la obra española en América con la emigración (que ocasionó la despoblación de muchas regiones españolas) y la colonización y fundación de 40.000 ciudades en el Nuevo Mundo.

The night of the sails

This celebration congregates every year to a visitors' enormous quantity. Both the inhabitants and many visitors adorn the population with thousands of sails at the beginning of July (the first and the second on Saturdays of the above mentioned month). The public lights go out and many windows close if some light wants to catch fire in order to highlight the lighting of the streets, windows, squares, gardens and courtyards. The simple laying of the burning sails is late several hours in the evening. Se apagan las luces públicas y se cierran muchas ventanas si se quiere prender alguna luz con el fin de resaltar la iluminación de las calles, ventanas, plazas, jardines y patios. La simple colocación de las velas encendidas tarda varias horas al caer la tarde.