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Lerma Spain

Lerma, also known as Villa Ducal de Lerma, is a village and a Spanish municipality. It is located in the district of Lerma, province of Burgos, Castilla la Vieja, autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is located on a hill that dominates the fertile plain of the Arlanza river. It is the administrative capital and commercial capital of the Arlanza region. The history and development of the town are irrevocably linked to the patronage of Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, first Duke of Lerma, valid and favorite of King Felipe III, and by extension to the Duchy of Lerma. Turistically, it forms the so-called Triangle of Arlanza with the neighboring towns of Covarrubias and Santo Domingo de Silos. It is also from the Middle Ages an obligatory step in the Cañada Real Burgalesa, which links Extremadura and the Sierra de la Demanda. The villa was to the courtier Valladolid (1601-1606) what El Escorial to Madrid, was declared historical-artistic group in 1965.1 It is known to be the main Herrerian architectural ensemble of Spain and houses the only tourism hostel in the province of Burgos , located in the Ducal Palace of Lerma, considered one of the ten best paradores in Spain. In addition, it has one of the few 18-hole golf courses in Castilla y León, the Lerma Golf Club. Another fact for which the Ducal Villa has become very popular is to have three convents of cloistered nuns that host more than a hundred religious.3 One of them headquarters of the recently founded religious Institute Iesu Communio (Communion) of Jesus) . Its Plaza Mayor, with 6,862 square meters, 5 is one of the largest in Spain, ahead of the Plaza Mayor de Salamanca.6

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Lerma, Spain

Lerma Spain