Artieda

This article deals with the place in Aragon. For further meanings see Artieda (disambiguation) .

Artieda municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Jacetania
Coordinates	42 ° 35 ′  N , 0 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 35 ′  N , 0 ° 59 ′  W
Height :	652  msnm
Area :	14 km²
Residents :	80 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	5.71 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50683
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50035

Artieda

Artieda is a Spanish municipality in the foothills of the Pyrenees on the edge of the Camino de Santiago . It is located in the Comarca Jacetania in the province of Saragossa in the autonomous community of Aragon .

The village is situated on a hill on the southern side of the valley , the Canal de Berdún is called, near the Yesa Dam and is designed as a fortified village. It can be reached from Jaca and Pamplona on national road 240 and the Camino de Santiago.

history

Even if the founding as a villa is only documented for 1276, there is evidence of Artieda from the Roman era. In the parcels of Campo de royo, Forao de la tuta, Viñas del Sastre and Corrales de Villasués, there are other archaeological sites from Roman times.

At least one change of landlord is known from the Middle Ages and from 919 at the latest the village belonged to the Leyre monastery because it was at that time that it paid its tithe there.

architecture

The village has largely retained its medieval character. It is shaped by the folk architecture of the Aragonese mountain regions, but there are also buildings with Renaissance and classical influences such as the Casa del Hospital.

The single-nave church comes from the Romanesque and is dedicated to St. Martin consecrated. Two chapels were built in the 17th century as part of slight renovations. The altar and reredos also date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

In addition to the parish church, there are several hermitages in the municipality: Ermita de San Pedro, Ermita de San Babil, Ermita de Santa Lucía, Ermita de Santa Cruz and Ermita de San Tornil.

Another important building is the already mentioned Casa de los Diezmos, which was built on March 18, 918 as a gift from the royal couple Sancho Garcés and Toda de Navarra.

climate

The climate in the Canal de Berdún is a dry Mediterranean-continental mountain climate. For the Pyrenees and the mountain ranges that surround them, this means mild summers and long, cold winters.

Population development

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
total	105	.	103	103	100	106	111	104	107	108
male	56	.	57	57	57	61	63	62	65
female	49	.	46	46	43	45	48	42	42

economy

Artieda lives from agriculture and animal husbandry. Traditionally, the villagers cultivate vegetable gardens for their own needs. Only recently, the Way of St. James and rural tourism opened up further sources of income, to which the village responded with a pilgrims' hostel and a rural casa .

Festivals and traditions

• January 6th: Cabalgata de Reyes , Epiphany for children
• February: Carnival, general dressing up, the young people go through the village and ask for donations for a large village dinner
• Holy Week: various processions a. a. Way of the Cross with stations at the individual houses, on whose balconies white sheets are hung.
• Easter Sunday: instead of the bells, loud ratchets call to mass
• Pentecost Sunday: village lunch together in the Hermitage of San Pedro
• November 11th, St. Martin's Day: village dinner together on the village square
• December 24th, Christmas Eve: big fire in the village square, where the villagers gather, roast sausages and drink punch or vino quemado , a type of mulled wine.

Web links

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

• Treatise on the Via Tolosana and the Camino Aragones ( Memento of August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish, PDF file; 4.19 MB)

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).

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