Ortigosa de Cameros

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : La RiojaLa Rioja La Rioja
Province : La Rioja
Comarca : Camero Nuevo
Coordinates 42 ° 11 ′  N , 2 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 11 ′  N , 2 ° 42 ′  W
Height : 1070  msnm
Area : 33.02 km²
Residents : 229 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 6.94 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 26124
Municipality number  ( INE ): 26112
administration
Website : Ortigosa de Cameros

Ortigosa de Cameros is a mountain town and a municipality ( municipio ) belonging to the poorly populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica with only 229 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Ortigosa de Cameros is located on a western tributary of the Río Iregua approx. 48 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of approx. 1070  m . Soria , the capital of the Old Castilian province bordering the Rioja to the south , is located approx. 64 km south-east. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 655 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2018
Residents 1,072 994 958 316 246

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

For centuries, the community was oriented towards agriculture for the purpose of self-sufficiency , with livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) in the foreground. 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 . In the Middle Ages, the region was disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and the Kingdom of Navarre . Since the 13./14. In the 18th century, the territory of the Tierra de Cameros belonged to the Lara family , i.e. Castile. After the abolition of the manorial system in 1811, it became the province of Soria and only in 1833 the newly created province of Logroño, from which the La Rioja region later emerged.

Attractions

Casa Grande
  • The Iglesia de San Martín is a 16th century structure with minor additions from the 18th century. The rib-vaulted church has two aisles with three bays each ; the apse closes flat. The late baroque altarpiece (retablo) contains a carved figure of Anna the third of herself .
  • The Iglesia de San Miguel , built around the same time, still has an unadorned Romanesque portal from the previous building.
  • The Casa Grande is a representative originally two-storey, later three-storey Renaissance building of a former landowner and cattle breeder with a window covered with a fan rosette , which refers to a construction period in the middle of the 16th century.
  • The cobbled streets of the mountain village are accompanied by partly stone-eyed and partly plastered houses.
  • The approximately 90 m long and 40 m high reinforced concrete viaduct (Puente de Hormigón) , which was completed in 1924, shows significant structural damage.
Surroundings
  • Another iron bridge (Puente de Hierro) from 1910 was one of the longest (56 m) and highest (54 m) bridges in Spain when it was built.
  • Approx. 500 m northeast of the village are several imposing stalactite caves , two of which can be visited.
  • At the edge of the field there is an approx. 2 m high boundary stone , which at the time marked the border between Castile and the Rioja.

Web links

Commons : Ortigosa de Cameros  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Ortigosa de Cameros - climate tables
  3. ^ Ortigosa de Cameros - population development
  4. ↑ Ortigosa de Cameros - History and Sights
  5. ↑ Ortigosa de Cameros - Church of San Martín
  6. ^ Ortigosa de Cameros - Church of San Miguel
  7. ↑ Ortigosa de Cameros - Casa Grande
  8. ↑ Ortigosa de Cameros - the townscape
  9. ^ Ortigosa de Cameros - Reinforced concrete viaduct
  10. ^ Ortigosa de Cameros - iron bridge