Villalonso
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| Country | |
| Autonomous community | |
| Province | |
| Municipality | Villalonso |
| Area | |
• Total | 14 km2 (5 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 75 |
| • Density | 5.4/km2 (14/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Villalonso is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 116 inhabitants.
In 1147 Osorio Martínez granted a fuero to Villalonso with the approval of Alfonso VII. The village in turn was required to make an annual payment in kind of half a sheep, ten loaves of bread, some barley, and some must.[2] The villa of Villalonso has been the ground of some movies, the most famous is Robin and Marian by Richard Lester, and a great cast of actors such as Sean Connery, Audrey Herpburn, Robert Shaw and Richard Harris.
Notes
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Simon Barton, The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 95.
