The Grajal Condes Palace was ordered to be built by Hernando de Vega, an ecclesiastical of the 16th century, who delegated the project management in the architect Lorenzo de Aldonza.The works began in 1517 to 1523.
The writer Ruben Ruíz Fernández wanted to contribute his grain of sand for the reconstruction of the Renaissance garden of the palace and explains that,
"This book is a small literary seed that tries to recover the Renaissance garden of the palace of the counts in Grajal de Campos as a real example of what can be done from interest," says the poet, who says that the project consists of two phases, the first of 10.640 euros and the second of 21540 euros, currently, "there are already 3000 euros and I will soon make the first contribution of 1000 euros"
Perhaps deterioration is one of the consequences of depopulation, since for him, this term means "abandonment and exodus of a part of ourselves for not being able to aspire to a life in the place that saw us born and in which ourancestors had their roots.It is an authentic barbarism that their memories or their desires, they bury themselves in the same land that they stepped on an unstoppable agony."
Ruiz es un hombre que abandera la palabra Raigambre porque, afirma, «no creo en el patriotismo actual".Ensures that he identifies with that feeling of roots to the earth without violence or confrontation.
Raised in a humble neighborhood, he says that he has worked in the countryside with half -world people, carrying trucks, trucks, has been welder, mason, crystal and now, railway.An learning that has allowed him to get closer to the peoples that he describes in his book Rigre, a poems, where to understand the history of the community members through the verses.Defeat in Villalar is an example of this and makes a parallel with León comparing it to the poppy that died, «that verse refers directly to the twin cities that defended the justice of the common over the concrete interests of an imperial project endorsed by thefuture emperor Carlos V." Además, «los señores de Grajal estuvieron muy ligados al emperador", asevera. «Espero que esas amapolas vuelvan a nacer pues son más necesarias que nunca", insiste el poeta, natural de Valladolid, pero con un cariño especial a León, recuerda sus primeras visitas a la localidad «y los baños en el río Cea, las bodegas horadadas en la tierra y las vendimias en la Ribera del Valderaduey".Also, he recalls the visual impact of the banners and the adorned cars while the dulzainas and the flutes sent ancestral sounds to their ears.And it highlights «The beauty of Babia, the force of Ponferrad." Aunque la poesía que más siente es la rebelión se propaga porque «transmite la necesidad de defender los derechos de todas las personas al margen de la época histórica que trata este libro"
El autor explica que la recuperación del palacio «es un ejemplo de resistencia de Grajal de Campos, que ha visto como su población ha disminuido un 80 por ciento" además agrega que, «varios pueblos de alrededor han desaparecido o están a punto de hacerlo."
The poet seeks solutions to that modern evil called Spain emptied and with which many young people are forced to emigrate from their peoples in search of the opportunities they do not have in the rural world.Therefore, it emphasizes «the need for projects based on a collective circular economy that lives in harmony with the environment.Support for traditional livestock, favorable taxation to families, accessible collective transport, fair prices in agriculture and real policies, no promises."
Finally, he describes the province as a place, rich in culture where “up to three languages coexist in it.A town full of contrasts, with regions with a very defined personality, in which we can find the ridges of the most steep mountains and the infinite plains of the moors. Es una autentica maravilla a todos los niveles y entre sus joyas desconocidas está Grajal de Campos".
The palace is distinguished by an Italian Renaissance style visible in the four towers and the central courtyard of which it is composed.On June 3, 1931 he was declared a National Monument and in 1998, the town of Grajal de Campos, acquired the property, in a state of deterioration, buying it from the owner family for 6 pesetas.
