Espinosa de Cervera

Espinosa de Cervera municipality
Espinosa de Cervera - Church of San Millán
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza
Coordinates	41 ° 54 ′  N , 3 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′  N , 3 ° 28 ′  W
Height :	1030  msnm
Area :	29.62 km²
Residents :	100 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	3.38 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09610
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09122
administration
Website :	Espinosa de Cervera

Espinosa de Cervera is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 100 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the Spanish province of Burgos in the autonomous region of Castile-León . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Espinosa de Cervera is located in the headwaters of the Río Esgueva at an altitude of approx. 1030  m . The provincial capital Burgos is located approx. 77 km (driving distance) northwest; the city of Aranda de Duero is a good 22 km to the east. The important medieval monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos is only 10 km to the northeast. The climate is temperate to warm; the rather sparse rain (approx. 540 mm / year) falls - with the exception of the summer months - over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	349	306	257	110	99

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lack of jobs, the population of the community experienced a collapse in the middle of the 20th century.

economy

From the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century, the place was the artisanal and mercantile center of several hamlets and individual farms in the area. Today the cultivation of grain and tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes are the main sources of income for the municipality.

history

Iglesia de San Millán

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. It is possible that the high place was little more than a resting place for hunters and wandering shepherds well into the Middle Ages. The exact stone work of the eastern parts of the Romanesque church is reminiscent of a former priory church .

Attractions

• Built in the early 13th century from precisely hewn stones and dedicated to St. Iglesia de San Millán , consecrated to Aemilianus by Cogolla , only the choir area and the multi-storey bell tower (campanario) are preserved, on which a guard storey was added at a later time. The remainder of the church, made of rubble , was added in the 15th or 16th centuries. The console figures below the apse eaves are remarkable .
• There is a spring (fuente) sunk into the ground but framed with a stone setting .

Surroundings

• The Ermita de Talamanquilla , built from quarry stone material, is located a little outside the village , in which a statue of the Virgin Mary (Virgen de Talamanquilla) is venerated.

Web links

Commons : Espinosa de Cervera  - 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. ↑ Espinosa de Cervera - climate tables
3. ↑ Espinosa de Cervera - population development
4. ↑ Espinosa de Cervera - Church
5. ↑ Espinosa de Cervera - Ermita