CIVIBAAtlas of Civic Places & Practices

Concejos abiertos y facenderas

Montaña leonesa y meseta · Castilla y León · Spain

Third placeMedieval

Neighbourhood assemblies (concejo abierto) and communal works (facendera, hacendera) that still govern hundreds of small municipalities and commonly held woodlands. Iberian vernacular direct democracy, an exact relative of the machizukuri inherited from Edo.

Led by
Comunidades vecinales
Status
Active
Participation
Vernacular
Visitable
Contexto territorial
Contact
No public contact on record
Last reviewed
1 September 2026

Verification

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