Leza de Río Leza

Municipality of Leza de Río Leza
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	La Rioja
Comarca :	Tierra de Cameros
Coordinates	42 ° 20 ′  N , 2 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 20 ′  N , 2 ° 24 ′  W
Height :	570  msnm
Area :	11.12 km²
Residents :	42 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	3.78 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26132
Municipality number  ( INE ):	26088
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Website :	Leza de Río Leza

Leza de Río Leza is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) belonging to the populous Serranía Celtibérica with only 42 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Leza de Río Leza is located on the middle reaches of the Río Leza a good 21 km (driving distance) south of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of about 570  m . Soria , the capital of the Old Castilian province bordering the Rioja to the south , is a good 85 km south. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 515 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	307	157	178	28	33

As a result of the decline in textile production, the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the population of the mountain town has decreased significantly since the middle of the 19th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

For centuries, the community was agriculturally oriented for the purpose of self-sufficiency , with livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) in the foreground; Weaving products were made from the sheep's wool and could also be exchanged or sold. But fruit, vegetables and grain were also grown. Today holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out mainly in the summer months .

history

Celtiberian , Roman , Visigoth and even Islamic-Moorish traces of settlement were not discovered in the municipality. The high-lying area served as summer pasture for sheep and goats for centuries . A military reconquest ( reconquista ) by the Christians did not take place, but the place was gradually settled as part of the Repoblación . Since around 1040 the area belonged to García Sánchez III. created manor (señorio) of the Tierra de Cameros . In the Middle Ages the region was at times disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and Navarre ; In 1366, Henry of Trastamara bequeathed 40 villages to Juan Ramírez de Arellano, whose descendants, the Condes de Águilar and the Duques de Abrantes, remained landlords (señores) of the area for a long time in gratitude for services rendered . In the 18th century the place experienced an enormous boom because of its textile production. After the abolition of manorial lords in 1811, the Cameros area belonged to the Soria province and only came to the newly created Logroño province in 1833, from which the La Rioja region later emerged.

Attractions

Leza de Río Leza - Ermita de la Virgen del Plano

• The single nave Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca was built in different phases from the 15th to the 18th century. The church has a bell tower (campanario) , a baptistery (capilla bautismal) , and a polygonal broken apse .

Surroundings

• The Romanesque Ermita de la Virgen del Plano , built from broken stones and / or field stones , is about 2 km outside the village. It is the only one still preserved in the municipality.
• The ruins of the medieval Ermita de San Martín no longer have a roof, but the two-part bell gable (espadaña) above the triumphal arch is still preserved.

Web links

Commons : Leza de Río Leza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leza de Río Leza - photos + brief information (wikirioja, Spanish)
• Leza de Río Leza - Photos + Quick Facts (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. ↑ Leza de Río Leza - climate tables
3. ↑ Leza de Río Leza - population development
4. ↑ Leza de Río Leza - Church
5. ↑ Leza de Río Leza - Ermita Virgen del Plano
6. ↑ Leza de Río Leza - Ermita San Martín