Puentedura

Puentedura municipality
Puentedura - Iglesia de San Jorge
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza (Comarca)
Coordinates	42 ° 3 ′  N , 3 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′  N , 3 ° 35 ′  W
Height :	890  msnm
Area :	16.39 km²
Residents :	110 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	6.71 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09347
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09277
administration
Website :	Puentedura

Puentedura is a place and a rural municipality in northern Spain ( municipio ) with 110 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The place Puentedura is on the Río Arlanza in the Castilian plateau (meseta) a good 41 km (driving distance) south of the provincial capital Burgos at an altitude of about 890  m ; the historically significant towns of Covarrubias and Lerma are only about 8 km to the east and 16 km to the west, respectively. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 525 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	509	449	384	137	115

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs have led to a significant decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

grazing flock of sheep near Puentedura

The inhabitants of the rural community live mainly from agriculture (agriculture, cattle breeding and viticulture); the community is part of the Arlanza (DO) wine-growing region . Since the 1960s, the summer rental of holiday homes (casas rurales) has also played a certain economic role.

history

Almost nothing is known about the origins of the place. The scanty remains of a Celtic settlement have been found on the nearby Alto de San Pedro hill ; The existence of a road has been handed down from Roman times, but has not yet been confirmed by finds. Visigothic and even Moorish traces are missing. In the early 10th century, the area was conquered by the Christians under the leadership of King Alfonso III. recaptured ( reconquista ) and then repopulated or repopulated ( repoblación ) ; The place whose stone bridge (puente dura) was important for the annual river crossings of the shepherds and their flocks ( transhumance and drift paths in Spain ) was probably built during this period . The first mention of the place name comes from the year 1233.

Attractions

Madonna and Child

• The in 16./17. The local church, built in the 18th century, is dedicated to both the Assumption of Mary (Asunción) and St. Georg (San Jorge) consecrated. The interior has three naves and is vaulted. The church preserves the baptismal font (pila bautismal) of the previous building from the 13th century as well as an imposing late Baroque altarpiece (retablo) in the style of Churriguerism .

Surroundings

• The unadorned Romanesque Ermita de San Millán stands just outside the village . She once owned an exceptionally beautiful carved Madonna and Child ( sedes sapientiae ) , which is now kept in the Museu Frederic Marès in Barcelona .

Web links

Commons : Puentedura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Puentedura - Infos (wikiburgos, Spanish)
• Puentedura and neighboring towns - Tourism website (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. ↑ Puentedura - climate tables
3. ↑ Puentedura - population development