Cerezo de Río Tirón

Cerezo de Río Tirón municipality
Cerezo de Río Tirón - View of the town
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Montes de Oca
Coordinates	42 ° 29 ′  N , 3 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 29 ′  N , 3 ° 8 ′  W
Height :	663  msnm
Area :	63.7 km²
Residents :	555 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.71 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09270
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09098
administration
Website :	Cerezo de Río Tirón

Cerezo de Río Tirón is a place and a rural municipality ( municipio ) with 555 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the comarca of Montes de Oca in the northeast of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The place Cerezo de Río Tirón is located on the middle reaches of the Río Tirón in Old Castile at an altitude of about 660  m . A good 57 km (driving distance) separate the place from the southwestern provincial capital Burgos ; the next larger city is Miranda de Ebro (approx. 39 km northeast). The small town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, on the Way of St. James , is only 21 km to the southeast. The climate is temperate to warm; The rain, which is abundant by Spanish standards (approx. 660 mm / year) falls - with the exception of the rather dry summer months - over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	1,459	1,457	1,619	771	555

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

In the first place in the economic life of the municipality traditionally ranks agriculture and especially livestock. In addition, wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables are cultivated. Glauberite salts are extracted in a mine , from which various sulphurous substances (especially sodium sulphate or Glauber's salt ) are produced.

history

The first Celtiberian tribes to settle here were the Autrigones and Berons , with the Río Tirón possibly forming a kind of border between the settlement areas of the two tribal groups. In ancient times, a Roman road led through the area, which connected Tarragona ( Tarraco ) or Saragossa (Caesaraugusta) with Astorga ( Asturica Augusta ) . The Arab-Berber armies also moved here, but left the climatically unfamiliar areas again, so that settlers from the north and south of the Iberian Peninsula settled here in the 10th and 11th centuries . Gonzalo Téllez , Count of Lantarón and Cerezo, was one of the leading forces in repopulation ( repoblación ) in the 10th century . Under the strong rule of Sancho III. and Ferdinand I of León , Cerezo lost its status as (part of) a county. In 1151, Alfonso VII of Castile gave Cerezo a confirmation of his privileges and customary rights ( fueros ) . In 1822, Cerezo was added to the newly created province of Logroño , from which it broke away 11 years later and joined the province of Burgos .

Attractions

Portal of the former church of Nuestra Señora de la Llana

• Some gold bracelets and earrings, which are kept in the Museo de Burgos , date from pre-Roman times .
• Two small bridges in the area date from Roman times.
• Only sparse remains of the medieval castle (castillo) have survived, but they dominate the townscape. A half-underground ice cellar (nevera) was built into the remains of the castle - perhaps as early as the Middle Ages .
• The ruins of the church of Santa María de Villalba from the 16th century stand halfway between the lower town and the castle.
• From the Romanesque church Nuestra Señora de la Llana , only about 100 m away and abandoned towards the end of the 18th century , the multi-tiered archivolt portal has been preserved, which is now set up in a square in the lower town.
• The 18th century neoclassical church of San Nicolás de Bari is located in the lower town; the interior houses several baroque altarpieces (retablos) .

Web links

Commons : Cerezo de Río Tirón  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cerezo - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, Spanish)
• Cerezo, sights - photos + information (Spanish)
• Cerezo, ruins - photo
• Cerezo, town view at night - photo

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. ↑ Cerezo de Río Tirón - climate tables
3. ↑ Cerezo de Río Tirón - population development
4. ↑ Cerezo History
5. ↑ Cerezo History