Puebla de Sanabria

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Municipality of Puebla de Sanabria
Puebla de Sanabria - town view
Puebla de Sanabria - town view
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Coat of arms of Puebla de Sanabria
Puebla de Sanabria (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile and Leon
Province : Zamora
Comarca : Sanabria
Coordinates 42 ° 3 ′  N , 6 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′  N , 6 ° 38 ′  W
Height : 920  msnm
Area : 81.39 km²
Residents : 1,373 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 16.87 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 49300
Municipality number  ( INE ): 49166
administration
Website : Puebla de Sanabria

Puebla de Sanabria is a northern Spanish town and capital of a municipality ( municipio ) with 1,373 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Zamora in the autonomous community of Castile-León . The historic town center has been classified as a Bien de Interés Cultural in the Conjunto histórico-artístico category since 1994 .

Location and climate

Puebla de Sanabria is located in the northwest of the province of Zamora at an altitude of approx. 920  m near the border with Portugal on a hill between the Río Tera and the Río Castro . The provincial capital Zamora is about 112 km (driving distance) in a southeast direction. The Portuguese city of Bragança , on the other hand, is only about 42 km southwest. The winter temperatures can be quite cool, whereas in summer it is warm to hot; Rain (approx. 760 mm / year) falls throughout the year with the exception of the summer months.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2017
Residents 1,723 1.107 1,367 1,645 1,432

Due to influx from the surrounding rural communities, the population has increased since the 1950s, despite the mechanization of agriculture . The hamlets (pedanías) Castellanos , Robledo and Ungilde also belong to the municipality .

economy

Agriculture (especially livestock and vegetable growing) traditionally plays the largest role in the municipality's economic life. In addition, the place functioned as a trade, craft and service center for the villages and hamlets in the region as early as the Middle Ages. Income from tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes ( casas rurales ) has increased over the last few decades.

history

A parish church in Senapría is mentioned for the first time in the 7th century, i.e. in Visigothic times. Following the Islamic conquest (conquista) in the 8th, the Christian reconquest ( reconquista ) of the areas north of the Río Duero in the 9th and 10th centuries. A document from the late 10th century mentions a town called Urbs Senabrie , but a castle (castillo) is only documented for the year 1132. Alfonso IX endowed the place with municipal privileges ( fueros ) in 1220 .

In the 15th century, power over Puebla was in the hands of various counts, including those of Benavente , who built the castle. It was gradually expanded into a border fortress.

During the Spanish War of Independence , Portuguese troops under Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira (1763-1821), supported by Spanish units, captured the fortress of Sanabria on August 20, 1810, previously taken by the French under General Jean Mathieu Seras . When the French garrison surrendered, they had to surrender their aigle de drapeau , a shameful admission of defeat.

Attractions

Houses in the town center
  • The alleys of the listed town center are characterized by a large number of two-story, mostly stone-faced houses with balconies.
  • The castle of the Counts of Benavente is an imposing building from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century.
  • The parish church ( Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Azogue ) has Romanesque origins, but was changed repeatedly between the 16th and 18th centuries. It stands on the highest point of the place.
  • The St. Hermitage church (Ermita de San Cayetano) consecrated to Cajetan with its baroque facade and a simple bell gable (espandaña) adjoins immediately north of the church.
  • The town hall (ayuntamiento) is located in a former noble palace from the end of the 15th century, dominated by large arcades.
  • The Museo de Gigantes y Cabezudos is dedicated to the tradition of pageants in honor of the respective city ​​patrons, which is widespread in many areas of Spain and other regions of Europe, accompanied by giant and dwarf figures (here on September 7th / 8th).
  • The simple church on the other side of the river Tera and the former monastery buildings of the Franciscan Convent (Convento e Iglesia de San Francisco) date from the 16th century.
Surroundings

Web links

Commons : Puebla de Sanabria  - 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. ↑ Puebla de Sanabria - climate tables
  3. ↑ Puebla de Sanabria - population development
  4. ^ JGB Adolph: Textbook of the military geography of Europe , Vol. 2: Textbook of the description of the earth of the Pyrenees peninsula . Müller, Mainz 1831, p. 350.
  5. ↑ The French eagles . In: Militair-Zeitung , Vienna, vol. 13 (1860), no. 64 of August 11, 1860, pp. 507–508, here p. 507.