Boceguillas

Boceguillas municipality
Boceguillas - town center
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Segovia
Comarca :	Comunidad de villa y tierra de Sepúlveda
Coordinates	41 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 38 ′  W
Height :	955  msnm
Area :	41.54 km²
Residents :	723 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	17.4 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	40560
Municipality number  ( INE ):	40032
administration
Website :	Boceguillas

Boceguillas is a place and a municipality (municipio) with 723 inhabitants (as of 2019) in the province of Segovia in the autonomous community of Castile-León in central Spain .

Location and climate

The place Boceguillas is in the largely flat Castilian Meseta on the European route 5 about halfway between Burgos and Madrid or about 75 km (driving distance) northeast of the provincial capital Segovia at an altitude of almost 955  m . The historically significant town of Sepúlveda is only about 12 km to the south-west. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 480 mm / year) falls throughout the year, with the exception of the dry summer months.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	473	496	498	553	708

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs in the countryside have led to a continuous decline in the population in rural areas since the mid-19th century. Due to the location of the community on the E 5 or A-1 , however, new economic impulses have emerged. The municipality also includes the hamlets (pedanias) Turrubuelo and Aldeanueva del Campanario , each with about 10 inhabitants , which were incorporated in the 1970s .

economy

Boceguillas and the surrounding area are traditionally oriented towards agriculture and were a center of textile manufacture in the Middle Ages and early modern times ; Small traders, craftsmen and service providers of all kinds settled in the place. Today, in addition to agriculture and viticulture, tourism - mainly in the form of renting out holiday apartments (casas rurales) - plays a not insignificant economic role.

history

Small finds from Roman times have been discovered in the municipality , but there are no archaeologically usable traces of the Visigoths and even of the Arabs and Moors . After the victorious battle of Simancas , the Christians were able to extend their sphere of influence to the banks of the Duero . The towns to the south, including Segovia and Boceguillas, could not be recaptured from the hands of the Moors until the end of the 11th century ( reconquista ) . Philip II granted the place town rights (villa) in 1565 .

Attractions

Portal of the Iglesia de Santo Domingo in Turrubuelo

• The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in the main square of the village was built in the 18th century on the site of a previous building. The west facade of the church is raised by a three-part bell gable (espadaña) . The nave (nature) is supported by a vaulted ceiling covering; the apse is flat.
• The old rectory (Casa Parroquial) dates from 1742.

Surroundings

• The church of Aldeanueva del Campanario seems to be a work of the 15th / 16th centuries. Century to be; it has a bell gable and a polygonally broken apse.
• The multi-pass arch of the portal of the Santo Domingo Church in the hamlet of Turrubuelo is a work of the Romanesque . However, large parts of the church were in the 17th / 18th centuries. Century renewed.
• In the fields there are still some half-ruined single-storey farms (fincas) .
• A single arched stone bridge (Puente Blanco) from the 18th century leads over a stream (arroyo) .

Web links

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

• Boceguillas, sights - 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. ↑ Boceguillas - Climate tables
3. ↑ Boceguillas - population development
4. ↑ Boceguillas / Aldeanueva Church
5. ↑ Boceguillas / Turrubuelo - Church