Amavida

Amavida municipality
Amavida - Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and Leon
Province :	Ávila
Comarca :	Valle de Amblés
Coordinates	40 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  W
Height :	1170  msnm
Area :	15.02 km²
Residents :	132 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.79 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	05560
Municipality number  ( INE ):	05012
administration
Website :	Amavida

Amavida is a place and a central Spanish municipality ( municipio ) with 132 inhabitants (as of January 1 2019) in the center of the province of Ávila in the Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon . The hamlet of Pascual Muñoz, with around 50 inhabitants, also belongs to the municipality .

location

The place Amavida is located in the far west of the Valle de Amblés on the north side of the Iberian Scheidegebirge at an altitude of approx. 1170 m above sea level. d. M. The city of Avila is a good 39 km (driving distance) to the northeast. The Río Adaja , a tributary of the Duero , flows past the place about 2 km south. The climate in winter is cool, in summer it is quite warm despite the altitude; the low amounts of precipitation (approx. 455 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	468	472	527	198	139

The continuous population decline since the 1950s is mainly due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

Agriculture (especially cattle breeding) traditionally plays the largest role in the community's formerly self-sufficient economy. Income from tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes ( casas rurales ) has been added since the last decades of the 20th century.

history

In the first millennium BC The municipality belonged to the settlement area of ​​the Celtic Vettons . Roman , Visigoth and even Arabic-Moorish traces are missing. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Valle de Amblés was probably recaptured by the Christians more or less without a fight ( reconquista ) and then repopulated ( repoblación ) .

Attractions

Monasterio de Nuestra Señora del Risco

• The small parish church of San Juan Bautista dates from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century; in the 18th century it was extended and upgraded on the south side by a vestibule ( portico ) with annex rooms. The nave is spanned by an artesonado wooden ceiling typical of the area ; a carved altarpiece (retablo) in the style of Churriguerism decorates the apse .

Surroundings

• The ruins of the Augustinian monastery ( Monasterio de Nuestra Señora del Risco ), which are about eight kilometers northwest of the village, are embedded in an impressive rocky landscape and can be explored on a hike ( 40 ° 35 ′ 30 ″  N , 5 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  W ) . The monastery, which was closed in 1835, once housed one of the most important panel paintings of the late Middle Ages - a Madonna with the Infant Jesus of Petrus Christ on her knee (today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid).
• On the road to neighboring Muñotello is the Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Izquierdo .

Web links

Commons : Amavida  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Amavida - Photos + Info (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Amavida - Map with altitude information
3. ↑ Amavida - climate tables
4. ↑ Amavida - population development
5. ↑ Amavida - Church ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Amavida Church
7. ↑ Amavida - former Augustinian monastery ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Amavida - Ermita ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.