Lucillo
| Lucillo parish | |||
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 House in the hamlet of Pobladura de la Sierra
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : |
 Castile and León
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| Province : | Leon | ||
| Comarca : | Maragatería | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 25 ′ N , 6 ° 27 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 1215 msnm | ||
| Area : | 164.91 km² | ||
| Residents : | 376 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 2.28 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 24723 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 24090 | ||
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| Website : | Lucillo | ||
Lucillo is a North Spanish municipality and a town ( municipio ) with 376 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the Comarca of Maragatería in the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .
location
The eight villages of the municipality of Lucillo ( Boisán , Busnadiego , Chana de Somoza , Filiel , Lucillo , Molinaferrera , Piedras Albas and Pobladura de la Sierra ) are located in the mountains of the Montes de León at altitudes between 1064 and 1274 meters above sea level. d. M. The distance to Astorga is about 36 kilometers (driving distance) in a northeasterly direction; the city of León is about 85 kilometers northeast.
Population development
| year | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2014 |
| Residents | 1,844 | 1,187 | 662 | 611 | 494 | 408 |
Around the middle of the 19th century the population of the municipality was around 1,400 people; towards the end of the 19th century there were even over 3,000. Due to the increasing mechanization of agriculture , however, there was a lack of jobs afterwards, which triggered a persistent rural exodus in the mountain villages .
economy
Until the mid-20th century, the residents of the community lived mainly as a self from the field economy and of some livestock; some worked as carters in the region. Today many empty houses are rented out as holiday apartments ( casas rurales ).
history
Only recently, petroglyphs dating from the Bronze Age have been discovered on some rocks ; some also consider gold prospectors to be the originators - the Romans mined gold in Las Medulas, just 20 kilometers to the west, and probably also in the area of the municipality of Lucillo. Visigoths and Moors , on the other hand, have left no archaeologically usable traces. In the Middle Ages and afterwards, the area around Lucillo belonged to the manor ( señorio ) of the Astorga diocese . Since the 16th century, a regionally important market took place in Lucillo, to which the goods were transported by carts, with which the mountain residents secured a small additional income.
Attractions
- The petroglyphs are mainly round indentations the size of a thimble, also called “ bowls ” ( cazoletas ); there are also circular, spiral and even labyrinth-like motifs.
- The mostly single-storey older houses in the various hamlets were all built from rubble stones ; they have only a few and mostly small windows, which in earlier times were not glazed but closed with wooden shutters. A few two-story houses have a south-facing wooden balcony .
- The small parish churches were also built from quarry stones and usually have entrances on the south side and a bell gable ( espadaña ) in the west - otherwise, any external decoration had to be dispensed with.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).