Bárboles

Bárboles municipality
	Bárboles - Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Valdejalón
Coordinates	41 ° 43 ′ N , 1 ° 11 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 43 ′ N , 1 ° 11 ′ W
Height :	259 msnm
Area :	15.68 km²
Residents :	293 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	18.69 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50297
Municipality number ( INE ):	50043
administration
Website :	Bárboles

Bárboles is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with a total of 293 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the center of the province of Saragossa in the autonomous region of Aragon in northeastern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Bárboles is located on the east bank of the Río Jalón a good 35 km (driving distance) west of the provincial capital Saragossa at an altitude of approx. 260 m . The climate is temperate to warm; the rather sparse rain (approx. 370 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	474	681	773	326	312

As a result of increasing drought, the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of numerous small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor in rural areas, the number of inhabitants has fallen significantly since the middle of the 20th century as a result of the " rural exodus ". The hamlets (pedanías) Oitura and Peramán also belong to the municipality .

economy

For centuries, the town's residents were essentially self-sufficient ; There were no grocery stores or markets, or only rarely. Even the few traders, craftsmen and service providers essentially provided themselves with everything they needed for life. The situation only improved with the improvement of the infrastructure in the second half of the 20th century.

history

In the municipality of Bárboles, neither Celtic nor Roman or even Visigoth small finds were discovered. In the 8th century the area was overrun by Arab-Moorish armies; It was not until the beginning of the 12th century that the Moors under Alfonso I of Aragón could be pushed south ( reconquista ) . In the 16th century, the place was under the manorial rule (señorio) of the Ximenez de Embun family, whose heads had the title of marquis (marques) since 1647 .

Attractions

Only an arch in the main square of the village reminds of the existence of a Moorish or Christian-medieval castle (castillo) .
The single-nave church of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora , built almost entirely from bricks in the Mudejar style in the 16th century, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary . The facade is a simpler version of the church in the neighboring town of Urrea de Jalón and has largely retained its external appearance. The interior of the church shows star vaults with gilded hanging keystones .