Poveda (Avila)

Poveda municipality
Poveda in the Valle de Amblés
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and Leon
Province :	Ávila
Comarca :	Valle de Amblés
Coordinates	40 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′  N , 5 ° 5 ′  W
Height :	1195  msnm
Area :	6.51 km²
Residents :	42 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	6.45 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	05560
Municipality number  ( INE ):	05188
administration
Website :	Poveda

Poveda (more rarely also Pobeda ) is a place and a central Spanish municipality ( municipio ) with only 42 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the center of the province of Ávila in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

location

The place Poveda is located in the far west of the Valle de Amblés on the north side of the Iberian Scheidegebirge at an altitude of approx. 1195 m above sea level. d. M. The city of Avila is a good 40 km (driving distance) to the northeast. The Río Adaja , a tributary of the Duero , flows past the village about 1 km south. The climate in winter is cool, in summer it is quite warm despite the altitude; the low amounts of precipitation (approx. 455 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	188	217	243	84	47

The continuous population decline since the 1950s is mainly due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

Agriculture (especially cattle breeding) traditionally plays the largest role in the community's formerly self-sufficient economy. Income from tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes ( casas rurales ) has been added since the last decades of the 20th century.

history

In the first millennium BC Today's municipality probably belonged to the settlement area of ​​the Celtic Vettons . Roman , Visigoth and even Arabic-Moorish traces are missing. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Valle de Amblés was recaptured by the Christians ( reconquista ) and then repopulated ( repoblación ) .

Attractions

Iglesia de San Blas

• The small parish church of San Blas , mainly made of roughly worked field stones, dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century; it was expanded and upgraded in the 18th century on the south side by a porch ( portico ) with adjoining sacristy. The bell gable may also date from this time. The nave is spanned by an artesonado wooden ceiling typical of the area ; a carved altar retable (retablo) in the style of late baroque Churriguerism adorns the polygonal broken apse separated by a flying buttress .

Surroundings

• The ruins of the former Augustinian monastery ( Monasterio de Nuestra Señora del Risco ), which are about eight kilometers northwest of the town, are embedded in an impressive rocky landscape and can be explored on a hike ( 40 ° 35 ′ 30 ″  N , 5 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  W ). The monastery, which was closed in 1835, once housed one of the most important panel paintings of the late Middle Ages - a Madonna with the Infant Jesus of Petrus Christ on her knee (today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid).

Web links

Commons : Poveda (Ávila)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Poveda - Photos + Info (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. ↑ Poveda - map with altitude information
3. ↑ Amavida / Poveda - climate tables
4. ↑ Poveda - population development
5. ↑ Poveda Church
6. ↑ Amavida / Poveda - Augustinian Monastery ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.