Cellorigo

Cellorigo municipality
Cellorigo - the townscape
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	La Rioja
Province :	La Rioja
Comarca :	Haro
Coordinates	42 ° 38 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  W
Height :	782  msnm
Area :	12.43 km²
Residents :	11 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	0.88 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26212
Municipality number  ( INE ):	26045
administration
Website :	Cellorigo

Cellorigo is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with about 11 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the Spanish region of La Rioja .

location

Cellorigo is located on the southern edge of the Montes Obarenes at an altitude of approx. 780 m above sea level. d. M .; the rugged mountain Peña Lengua towers over the place. The distance to the small town of Haro is about 22 km (driving distance) in a south-easterly direction; the town of Miranda de Ebro in the Castilian province of Burgos is only about 12.5 km to the northeast.

Population development

year	1860	1900	1950	1970	2001	2010
Residents	223	205	109	57	21st	13

The population decline began at the end of the 19th century with the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and continued in the 20th century with the increasing mechanization of agriculture . The place could soon belong to the abandoned villages ( pueblos despoblados ).

economy

In earlier centuries, the residents of the village lived largely as a self-sufficient source of income from their fields and gardens. The municipality is one of the wine-growing villages of the La Rioja region . Tourism has played an important role in the economic life of the municipality since the second half of the 20th century; some houses are for rent as holiday apartments.

history

In the years 882 and 883, two historically significant battles between Christian and Muslim armies took place at the then already existing castle ( castillo ) of Cellorigo. In the high Middle Ages, the castle and the slowly developing town changed hands several times. A monastery is even mentioned, which was subordinated to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla in 1049 , but already about 70 years later (1117) to the monastery of Santa María la Real de Nájera - thus under the sphere of influence of the Kingdom of Navarre - got. At the end of the 13th and 14th centuries, the area became Castilian again . With the territorial reform of 1833, the town, which had previously belonged to the Castilian province of Burgos, was added to the newly created province of Logroño, from which the autonomous region of La Rioja emerged in 1982.

Ermita Santa María del Barrio

Attractions

• Only sparse remains of the castle, which was once hidden in the rugged rocky landscape of the 912 m high Peña Lengua , have survived.
• The parish church of San Millán is a two-aisled building from the 14th century with a pretty late Gothic rose window . The sacristy and bell tower were added in the 18th century.
• The hermit church of Santa María del Barrio seems to date back to the 10th century. It fell into disrepair from the 18th century and is now in ruins.

Web links

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

• Cellorigo, history and sights - photo + info (Spanish)
• Cellorigo, Castillo - Photo + Info (Spanish)
• Cellorigo and Peña Lengua - Photos + Info (Spanish)
• Peña Lengua - Photos + Info (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).