[2] Until the French Revolution the town was a constitutional municipality in the region of Castilla la Vieja, Soria.

In the 19th century,[4] the municipality expanded to include the localities of Acrijos, Armejún, Buimanco, Fuentebella, Peñazcurna, Valdemoro de San Pedro Manrique, and Villarijo.

The area is mainly reliant on livestock, agriculture, food industry (chacinera), hospitality, forestry and local services.

During this festival, some women called "móndidas" dress in traditional costume wearing huge "cestaños" (a kind of basket filling stones for stability, and containing a roulade and several rolls), decorated with flowers and three "arbujuelos" (tree branches covered with unleavened bread colored with saffron).

In this study, the scientists showed evidence of synchronization between the heartbeats of practitioners and spectators at the firewalking ritual.