Meaning of cilleros by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

It is a Spanish municipality of about 1,700 inhabitants, located to the Northwest of the province of Cáceres in the foothills of the sierra de Santa Olalla, next to the sierra de Gata, near the border with Portugal, in the region of Extremadura. The name derives from the latin cellae cella: cilla, barn, silo, food store, pantry, because here the tithes of crops kept the order of Alcantara since the time of Alfonso IX in the 13th century. A very attractive place for tourism for its architecture, its landscapes ( Cork oak groves, vineyards, olive groves, ) and popular culture: until recently a close dialect spoken here alasturleones, perhaps as a result of the transhumance of Extremadura pastoralists to Leon pastures, dialect which is already disappearing.