Cedrillas

Cedrillas municipality
Cedrillas - town view with castle hill
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Teruel
Comarca :	Comunidad de Teruel
Coordinates	40 ° 26 ′  N , 0 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′  N , 0 ° 51 ′  W
Height :	1365  msnm
Area :	73.57 km²
Residents :	664 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	9.03 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44147
Municipality number  ( INE ):	44074
administration
Website :	El Castellar

Cedrillas is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 664 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the center of the province of Teruel in the autonomous region of Aragon in eastern central Spain .

Location and climate

The place Cedrillas is located on the upper reaches of the Río Mijares in the south of the Iberian Mountains about 30 km (driving distance) northeast of the city of Teruel at an altitude of about 1340 to 1365  m . The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 570 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	744	860	956	527	611

The mechanization of agriculture as well as the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs led to a significant population decline ( rural exodus ) in the second half of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries the community lived exclusively from growing grain ( barley and wheat ), which was mainly operated for self-sufficiency ; livestock farming (sheep, goats, chickens) also took place to a small extent. The place El Castillar served as a mercantile, artisanal and cultural center for the hamlets (pedanías) and individual farms (fincas) in its vicinity, which have now mostly disappeared . Today agriculture still plays the most important role; There is hardly any income from tourism.

history

In the 1st millennium BC Celtiberian tribal groups of the Lobetans probably settled in the region . Small Roman finds have been made, but there are no corresponding finds from the Visigothic and Moorish times, although there is some evidence that the area belonged to the Taifa kingdom of Albarracín in the 11th century . In the years around 1170 Teruel was conquered by the Christians; about 30 years later, Cedrillas should also have fallen into their hands.

Attractions

• The castle (castillo) dominates the place. The castle rock was perhaps already used by the Celts or Celtiberians as a refuge. The current state was created in the 13th / 14th centuries. Century.
• The single-nave Iglesia de San Salvador belongs to the transition period from the late Gothic to the Renaissance ; the apse is broken polygonally. The neo-Mudéjare bell tower was built in 1890.
• The Ermita del Salvador and the Ermita de Loreto are in the middle of the village or on the outskirts.

Surroundings

• About two kilometers outside is the Ermita de Santa Quiteria .

Web links

Commons : Cedrillas  - 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. ↑ Cedrillas - climate tables
3. ↑ Cedrillas - population development
4. ↑ Cedrillas - Castillo
5. ↑ Cedrillas - Castillo
6. ↑ Cedrillas - Churches and Sanctuaries