Azuaga

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Azuaga municipality
Azuaga - Town Hall (ayuntamiento)
Azuaga - Town Hall (ayuntamiento)
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Azuaga coat of arms
Azuaga (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Extremadura
Province : Badajoz
Comarca : Llerena
Coordinates 38 ° 16 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 16 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  W
Height : 595  msnm
Area : 497.89 km²
Residents : 7,853 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 15.77 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 06920
Municipality number  ( INE ): 06014
administration
Website : Azuaga

Azuaga is a small town and a municipality ( municipio ) with 7,853 inhabitants (as of 2019) in the southeast of the Spanish province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura . The historic town center was recognized in 1995 as the Conjunto histórico-artístico .

location

The place Azuaga is located in the headwaters of the Río Bembézar in the Sierra Morena approximately halfway between Mérida and Córdoba at an altitude of about 595 m above sea level. d. The climate in winter is temperate, in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 635 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2016
Residents 6,647 14,192 17,669 8,735 8.008

The significant population decline in the second half of the 20th century is essentially due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

While the surrounding area was largely agricultural for centuries, small traders, craftsmen and service providers of all kinds also settled in the village.

history

In the municipality of Azuaga the remains of more than 30 Neolithic large stone graves ( dolmen ) have been discovered. The remains of 4 Roman grave steles are kept in the town hall. A column with a capital in the Ermita de Humiladero may come from the Visigothic period . The geographer al-Idrisi first mentions the place, secured by a fortress ( kasbah ) , in the 12th century under its current name. Around the year 1236 Azuaga was taken over by the Christian armies under King Ferdinand III. recaptured from Castile ( reconquista ) ; this handed him over to the care of the Order of Santiago . The city experienced its heyday in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Attractions

Portal of the Church
Interior of the church
  • From the Moorish, later Christian castle (Castillo de Miramontes) there are only insignificant remains.
  • The most important building in the city is the Nuestra Señora de la Consolación church, built between 1511 and 1538 , whose north portal, made of precisely hewn stones but framed by two brick pillars, is influenced by the Isabelline style . The interior of the three-aisled basilica is characterized by ribbed vaults , which develop from slightly curved late Gothic bundle pillars , and by several baroque carved altars. The furnishings of the churches also include a baptismal font and a silver custodia .
  • Another church (Nuestra Señora de la Merced) and several hermitages (ermitas) enrich the townscape.
  • A museum deals with the development of the region.
Surroundings
  • There are several dolmens and a menhir in the vicinity of the village .

Web links

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

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. ↑ Azuaga - map with altitude information
  3. ↑ Azuaga - climate tables
  4. ↑ Azuaga - population development
  5. ^ Azuaga story
  6. ↑ Azuaga - Church of Nuestra Señora de la Consolación
  7. ↑ Azuaga - Church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced
  8. ↑ Azuaga - Churches and hermitages
  9. ^ Azuaga - Ethographic Museum
  10. ↑ Azuaga - Dolmen