Castle Peñaranda de Duero, a town in the province of Burgos, the city center is a gem, highlighting square, the palace and gives her roll in the center of it.
The scroll is a stone column, usually topped by a cross or a ball. Represented the administrative category of the place, rising only in that Villazgo had full jurisdiction, indicating the regime that was under: real dominion, Concejil, ecclesiastical or monastic. Besides marking the territorial limit and in some cases, it was a memorial to the granting of villazgo. Shared with the picks the functions of executions. These executions were suspended by decree of the Cortes of Cadiz in 1812. They are in those towns were mayor of Castile and, therefore, jurisdiction to judge and condemn to death. Also served to punish and pay the penalties under common criminals, who after being beaten, were exposed to public shame. The rolls are similar
to cruise, but its meaning is different.
During the Conquest of America, the first act of founding a city was the erection of the roll, as a symbol of royal jurisdiction and as a sign of coercive threat.
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