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Jaramillo Quemado
With just over five inhabitants, the Burgos municipality of Jaramillo Quemado is one of the Spanish villages with the fewest inhabitants. Its development is closely linked to the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, founded in the 10th century near the old village centre. In fact, it was the expansion of the dominion exercised by this monastery in the area that led to the creation of this small village.
Today it is divided to three districts - Gallejones, Cascajo and La Calle - which converge in the town square. The civil architecture of the municipality includes some striking houses and mansions decorated with coats of arms, proving that, despite its small population today, in the past this village was of some importance in the area, especially during the Middle Ages. For many years, the locality was called Jaramillo de los Caballeros, in reference to the large number of noblemen who lived there and who left their mark on the municipality with coats of arms decorating numerous façades in what is today Jaramillo Quemado.
As well the popular architecture of the municipality, the church dedicated to San Martín de Tours - patron saint of the municipality in honour of whom the locals celebrate a pilgrimage on 11 November - is particularly noteworthy. Traces of the Romanesque style remain, such as its tower, although the rest of the temple was influenced by the Gothic style in the early 16th century. It has three naves and a star-shaped vault.
One of the main attractions of this small village is the natural environment that surrounds it, in the heart of the Sierra de la Demanda mountains, with numerous hiking and cycling routes to discover the area and its rich biodiversity a little better.