Anento

Municipality of Anento
	Anento - townscape with castle hill
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Campo de Daroca
Coordinates	41 ° 4 ′ N , 1 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′ N , 1 ° 20 ′ W
Height :	920 msnm
Area :	21.52 km²
Residents :	106 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	4.93 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50369
Municipality number ( INE ):	50028
administration
Website :	Anento

Anento is a Spanish place and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 106 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the province of Zaragoza in the autonomous community of Aragon . The municipality belongs to the poorly populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Anento is about 83 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Saragossa near the border with the province Teruel at an altitude of about 850 to 920 m . The historically significant town of Daroca is only approx. 15 km to the northwest. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 445 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	342	370	337	107	93

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs led to a significant decline in the population ( rural exodus ) in the second half of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries, the residents of the place lived directly (as small farmers or servants) or indirectly (as traders or craftsmen) from agriculture, which also included cattle breeding (sheep, goats, chickens). They worked on the land of the landlords as well as their own fields and gardens. Today many houses are rented out as holiday apartments (casas rurales) , mainly in summer .

history

So far, no finds have been made from the Celtiberian , Roman or Visigothic times. In the 8th century Arab-Moorish armies advanced to the north of the Iberian Peninsula . The area was after the reconquest ( reconquista ) of the city of Zaragoza in 1118 by the Aragonese King Alfonso I christian again. It is possible that Anento was founded in the 12th century by the Count of Barcelona. Later the place was in the long disputed border area between the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile ; the castle was attacked in the " War of the Two Peter ".

Attractions

Anento

The alleys of the place were paved and many houses restored.
Probably in the early 14th century a castle (castillo) was built on the nearby rock , of which considerable remains of walls and an imposing gate have been preserved.
The Church of San Blas is a late Romanesque building from around 1300; around the middle of the 14th century a Gothic south porch (portico) was added. Nave (nave) and apse were once painted, but only few remains have been preserved. In the apse is a major altarpiece (retablo) from the early 15th century, the Aragonese painter Blasco de Grañén is attributed.
The Ermita de Santa Bárbara dates from the 18th century.