Montes de Valdueza
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 Montes de Valdueza - Monasterio de San Pedro
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| Autonomous Community : | Castile and Leon | ||
| Province : | Leon | ||
| Comarca : | El Bierzo | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 27 ′ N , 6 ° 34 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 1000 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 34 (2014) INE | ||
| Postal code : | 24415 | ||
| Area code: | 24115001501 | ||
Montes de Valdueza is a town in northern Spain with about 30 inhabitants in the municipality ( municipio ) of Ponferrada in the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León .
location
The place Montes de Valdueza is located in the upper regions of the Bierzo valley at an altitude of about 1000 meters above sea level. d. M. near a small tributary of the Río Oza. The distance to Ponferrada is about 27 kilometers (driving distance) to the north. In a south-westerly direction, the town of Peñalba de Santiago is only 6 kilometers away .
Population development
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2014 |
| Residents | 22nd | 32 | 34 |
In the 19th century the population of the municipality was mostly around 100 people. Most of the residents have died or emigrated, but some new settlers have bought a holiday home or a retirement home here.
economy
For centuries, the residents of the community lived mainly as a self-sufficient source of income from their small fields and also from a little cattle-raising. In the last decades of the 20th century tourism was added as a source of income; some of the vacant houses are rented out as holiday apartments ( casas rurales ).
history
As early as 635, the Visigoth abbot and later bishop Fructuosus of Braga founded a monastery here, but it was probably destroyed by the Moors a century later . In the course of the reconquest ( reconquista ) and resettlement ( repoblación ), a small town grew up around the revived monastery. In the 19th century the already partially ruined monastery was dissolved ( desamortisatión )
Attractions
- The town's quarry stone houses have only a few small windows, but most of the two-story houses have a wooden balcony.
- The three-aisled monastery church has been restored since the 1990s so that it can be re-entered safely. It contains two altarpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries. The latter has twisted columns on the side in the Churrigueresque style of the late Baroque .
- Most of the monastery buildings, including the strict form of the cloister , which was redesigned in the 16th century, are in ruins.
