Luyego
| Luyego municipality | |||
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 Hamlet of Quintanilla
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| coat of arms | Map of Spain | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : |
 Castile and León
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| Province : | Leon | ||
| Comarca : | Maragatería | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 22 ′ N , 6 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 1000 msnm | ||
| Area : | 132.31 km² | ||
| Residents : | 628 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 4.75 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 24717 + 24721 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 24091 | ||
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| Website : | Luyego | ||
Luyego is a North Spanish municipality and a town ( municipio ) with 628 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .
location
The six villages of the municipality ( Luyego de Somoza , Quintanilla de Somoza , Villalibre de Somoza , Villar de Golfer , Priaranza de la Valduerna and Tabuyo del Monte ) are located in the mountains of the Montes de León at an altitude between 963 and 1066 meters above sea level. d. M. The distance to Astorga is about 20 kilometers (driving distance) in a northeasterly direction; the city of León is about 67 kilometers northeast. The Río Duerna flows through the municipality .
Population development
| year | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2014 |
| Residents | 2,044 | 1,792 | 1,131 | 1,057 | 943 | 740 |
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 more than 2,600. 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 of them also made some money as carters. Today many empty houses are rented out as holiday apartments ( casas rurales ).
history
The Romans were gold prospectors in the region. Visigoths and Moors , on the other hand, have left no archaeologically usable traces. Since the Middle Ages, the area around Luyego belonged to the manor ( señorio ) of the Astorga diocese .
Attractions
- The mostly single-storey older houses in the various villages 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 one sometimes three-aisled parish churches and hermitages ( ermitas ) were mostly built from precisely hewn stones and usually have an entrance and a vestibule ( portico ) on the south side and a bell gable ( espadaña ) or even a bell tower ( campanario ) in the west - Otherwise the exterior decoration was largely 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).