Hontanas

Hontanas municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Odra Pisuerga
Coordinates	42 ° 19 ′  N , 4 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 19 ′  N , 4 ° 3 ′  W
Height :	870  msnm
Area :	10.218 km²
Residents :	71 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	6.95 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09227
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09159
administration
Mayor :	César Arnáiz Santamaría (PP)
Address of the municipal administration:	C / Casa Consistorial, 1
Website :	usuarios.lycos.es/hontanasburgos

Hontanas is a village on the Camino de Santiago in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León .

history

Hontanas

The place name refers to the good water supply of the village through various springs and developed by shifting consonants from "Fontanas" to "Hontanas".

The former pilgrim hospice “Hospital de San Juan” or “Meson de los Franceses” ( French House ) is evidence of the long connection between the place and the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela . It has been restored and is now used again as a pilgrimage hostel. In addition, Domenico Laffi mentions the place in his pilgrimage report.

Attractions

• Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception (Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción), 14th century, with a Baroque retable by Fernando de la Peña. Next to it one of the eponymous sources.
• Former and reactivated pilgrims' hostel "Hospital de San Juan / de los Franceses"

Fiestas

• Patronage festival: December 6-8
• Saint Roch fire (Hoguera de San Roque): August 16th

Population development

1991	1996	2001	2004
96	80	65	70

Web links

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

• Location information of the Diputacion de Burgos

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. ↑ "... Llegamos a la villa que se llama de Hontanas (" Fontana ") que está escondida al fondo de un vallecillo y que apenas se ve ..." (We reached a place called Hontanas and hidden on the The bottom of a small valley is so that you can hardly see it ...) Viaggio in Ponente a San Giacomo di Galitia e Finisterrae (journey west to Santiago de Compostela and Finisterra), quoted from the route information of the St. James Society in Burgos

Navigation bar St. James " Camino Francés "

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