Azofra

Azofra municipality
Azofra with Nuestra Señora de los Angeles church
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	La Rioja
Comarca :	Nájera
Coordinates	42 ° 25 ′  N , 2 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 25 ′  N , 2 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	559  msnm
Area :	11.84 km²
Residents :	215 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	18.16 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26323
Municipality number  ( INE ):	26022
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Website :	Azofra

Azofra is a municipality and a town ( municipio ) with 215 inhabitants (1 January 2019) at St. James ( Camino Francés ) in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja .

Location and climate

The place Azofra is located on the middle reaches of the Río Tuerto about 35 km (driving distance) west of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of about 560  m . The city of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is only 14 km to the west. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 615 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2001	2018
Residents	505	655	767	327	200

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor in rural areas, many families migrated to the cities in the second half of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The community was and is characterized by agriculture for centuries. All kinds of tradespeople had settled in the village. Today pilgrimage tourism plays a certain role in the economic life of the place.

history

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Islamic-Moorish traces have not yet been discovered in the municipality. The reconquest ( reconquista ) by the Christians took place at the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th century. The place name was first mentioned in 989 due to a gift from the Navarre King García Sanchez II to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña . The place experienced a certain boom in the Middle Ages due to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela . In the 14th century Peter I of Castile gave the place to his faithful Ortiz de Zúñiga, whose descendants still exercised the manorial rule (señorio) over the place until the 19th century .

Attractions

Court column (rollo or picota)

• The single-nave parish church of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century; it stands at the highest point of the place. The placement of the bell tower (campanario) on the southeast segment of the polygonal broken apse is unusual . The entrance portal on the south side of the church is protected by a portico. The altarpiece (retablo) from the 17th century shows numerous carved figures.
• Established in 1168 by a certain Doña Isabel de Azofra donated pilgrim hospital is no longer maintained.
• Immediately next to the church there is a pilgrims' hostel , which was set up by members of the Santiago Friends Cologne. Other pilgrimage hostels are run by the village or privately.
• At the exit of the village towards Cirueña is the pilgrims' spring Fuente de Romeros .

Surroundings

• About 1 km west of the village is a recently restored court column (roller blind) .

literature

• Ulrich Wegner: The Spanish Way of St. James , Dumont, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-3415-X
• Cordula Rabe: Spanish Way of St. James. From the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. All stages - with variants and height profiles. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4330-0 ( Rother hiking guide ).
• Bert Teklenborg: Cycling along the Camino de Santiago. From the Rhine to the western end of Europe. (Cycling guide, route planner). 3rd revised edition. Publishing House Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2626-8 .

Web links

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

• Azofra - photos + info (spanish)
• Azofra; Tourism - photos + information (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. ↑ Azofra / Santo Domingo de la Calzada - climate tables
3. ^ Azofra - population development
4. ↑ Azofra Church
5. ↑ Azofra - Court Column

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