Ciruelos de Cervera

Ciruelos de Cervera municipality
Ciruelos de Cervera - Iglesia de San Sebastián
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza (Comarca)
Coordinates	41 ° 54 ′  N , 3 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′  N , 3 ° 32 ′  W
Height :	1020  msnm
Area :	37.87 km²
Residents :	99 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	2.61 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09610
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09105
administration
Website :	Ciruelos de Cervera

Ciruelos de Cervera is a place and a northern Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with only 99 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The place Ciruelos de Cervera is located on the mountain stream Arroyo de Valdetajas in the Castilian plateau (meseta) a good 67 km (driving distance) southeast of the provincial capital Burgos at an altitude of approx. 1020  m ; the historically significant small town of Lerma is just under 29 km to the northwest. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 535 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	490	543	503	166	101

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs have led to a significant decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ). The hamlet (pedanía) Briongos de Cervera , which still has around 30 inhabitants, also belongs to the municipality .

economy

The inhabitants of the rural community live mainly from agriculture (agriculture, cattle breeding and viticulture); the community is part of the Arlanza (DO) wine-growing region . Since the 1960s, the summer rental of holiday homes (casas rurales) has also played a certain economic role.

history

Almost nothing is known about the origins of the place. Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. In the early 10th century, the area was conquered by the Christians under the leadership of King Alfonso III. recaptured ( reconquista ) and then repopulated or repopulated ( repoblación ) ; The place was probably built around this time. On March 25, 1608, Philip III sold the manorial rule (señorio) over Villahoz and more than 300 other places in the area to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas , the Duke of Lerma.

Ciruelos de Cervera - Portal of the Church

Attractions

• Many houses in the village consist of roughly hewn natural stones ; some were later completely or partially plastered .
• The Iglesia de San Sebastián is a three-aisled late Gothic hall church from the late 15th and early 16th centuries , built from largely precisely hewn stones . The interior is covered with star vaults, the rosette-shaped keystones of which are remarkable. Instead of an altarpiece there is a door with a stone keel arch . The baptismal font (pila) is the treasure of the church; it comes from the previous medieval building and shows Mozarabic horseshoe arches .
• The Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Carmen has a small baroque bell gable (espadaña) .
• In the middle of the village there is a well (fuente) , the basin of which also served as a cattle trough.
• On the outskirts there is a washing area (lavadero) , the former as a cattle trough (Abrevadero) was used.

Web links

Commons : Ciruelos de Cervera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ciruelos de Cervera - Information (wikiburgos, Spanish)
• Ciruelos de Cervera - Information (Spanish)
• Ciruelos de Cervera - Video (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. ↑ Ciruelos de Cervera - climate tables
3. ↑ Ciruelos de Cervera - Population Development