Gallipienzo

Gallipienzo municipality
Gallipienzo - View of the town with the Aragón River
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Comarca :	Comarca de Sangüesa
Coordinates	42 ° 32 ′  N , 1 ° 23 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 32 ′  N , 1 ° 23 ′  W
Height :	500  msnm
Area :	56.45 km²
Residents :	98 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.74 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	31493
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31110
administration
Website :	Gallipienzo

Gallipienzo ( Basque Galipentzu ) is a place and a municipality (municipio) with only 98 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of Navarre in the north of Spain . The place consists of an old and almost abandoned old town center and a new district (Gallipienzo Nuevo) .

Location and climate

The old town of Gallipienzo is located on a hill above the Río Aragón at a height of approx. 500  m and is approx. 57 km (driving distance) in a south-easterly direction from the regional capital Pamplona ; the new district is located approx. 1 km (as the crow flies) northeast and is a good 100 m lower. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 790 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	694	748	568	160	99

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs have led to a significant decline in the population since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

Gallipienzo is traditionally oriented towards agriculture, but craftsmen and service providers have also settled in the village; however, they all disappeared in the last decades of the 20th century. Tourism in the form of renting holiday apartments (casas rurales) plays only a minor economic role.

history

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces have not yet been discovered. At the end of the 11th century, Peter I of Aragón (ruled 1094–1104) attempted to recapture ( reconquista ) the area, but only King Alfonso II was successful around 1165. In the 1170s the area was disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragón . From 1366 to 1843 Gallipienzu belonged to the historic comarca of Valle de Aibar .

Attractions

Apse and crypt of San Salvador

• The late Romanesque-late Gothic Iglesia de San Salvador stands on a slope at the highest point in the town. It has a vaulted crypt . The actual nave (nave) dates from the 15th century; it is comparatively high and covered by a sixteenth-century star vault . In the polygonal broken apse have frescoes remains preserved.
• Not far from there rises the outer wall of the otherwise ruined Ermita de la Concepción (or Ermita de Virgen de la Peña ) made of precisely hewn stones . It is believed that a castle (castillo) once stood here, from which the stones could also have come.
• The Iglesia de San Pedro was built around the same time as the upper church of San Salvador (16th century). A multi-tiered archivolt portal leads into the church, the apse of which shows an altarpiece (retablo) from 1629.

Web links

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

• Gallipienzo, Sights - 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).
2. ↑ Gallipienzo - Climate table
3. ↑ Gallipienzo - Population Development
4. ↑ Gallipienzo - Church of San Salvador