Cervera de la Cañada

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Aragon
Province : Zaragoza
Comarca : Comunidad de Calatayud
Coordinates 41 ° 26 ′  N , 1 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 26 ′  N , 1 ° 44 ′  W
Height : 703  msnm
Area : 29.22 km²
Residents : 271 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 9.27 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 50312
Municipality number  ( INE ): 50079
administration
Website : http://es.geocities.com/CERVERADELACANADA/ ( Memento from October 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Cervera de la Cañada is a town in northern Spain and a municipality ( municipio ) with 271 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Saragossa in the autonomous region of Aragon .

location

Cervera de la Cañada is located on the slopes of a rocky hill about 16 kilometers (driving distance) northwest of the city of Calatayud at an altitude of about 700 meters above sea level. d. M. The small town of Ateca, which is well worth seeing , is about 23 kilometers south.

Population development

year 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2011
Residents 772 563 438 375 332 319

In the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the population of the place was at times over 1,000 people. Due to the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the increasing mechanization of agriculture , the number of inhabitants has steadily declined since then.

economy

For centuries the inhabitants of the place lived directly or indirectly (as traders or craftsmen) from agriculture. Viticulture played an important economic role in the 19th century until the outbreak of the phylloxera crisis and there is still a wine cooperative in the village today.

history

Already in the Middle Ages there was a castle and a chapel on the hill dominating the place, but both of them in the ' War of the Two Peter ' ( Guerra de los Dos Pedros ) between Peter I of Castile and Peter IV of Aragon in 1356 –1369 were largely destroyed.

Attractions

Santa Tecla Church (around 1425)
  • All that remains of the former castle ( castillo ) is the quarry stone wall of a round tower, which stabilizes the choir of the church.
  • The main attraction of the place is the church of the Nuestra Señora de la Asunción , classified as a cultural asset ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) , which is popularly called Santa Tecla after the patron saint of the place . It was probably built at the beginning of the 15th century on the site of the former castle chapel and - in the best Mudéjar tradition - consists almost entirely of bricks . The repellent exterior gives way inside the church to an extremely elegant late Gothic architecture, the plastered surface of which is loosened up by joint paintings and other decorative elements. The imposing baroque altarpiece almost looks like a foreign body here.

Web links

Commons : Cervera de la Cañada  - 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).