San Martin de la Virgen de Moncayo

San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo municipality
San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Tarazona y el Moncayo
Coordinates	41 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	820  msnm
Area :	5.42 km²
Residents :	277 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	51.11 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50584
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50234
administration
Website :	San Martin de la Virgen de Moncayo

San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo ( San Martín for short ) is a northern Spanish place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 277 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northwest of the province of Saragossa in the west of the autonomous region of Aragon . The place belongs to the sparsely populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo is located on the northern edge of the approximately 2315  m high Sierra de Moncayo about 91 km (driving distance) northwest of the provincial capital Saragossa near the border with the province of Soria at an altitude of about 820  m ; the beautiful city of Tarazona is a good twelve kilometers northeast. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 535 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	378	384	418	305	287

Despite the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has remained largely constant in the second half of the 20th century.

economy

For centuries, the residents of the village lived directly or indirectly as self-sufficiency from agriculture, which also included livestock farming. Today orchards play an essential role in the economic life of the place; In addition, holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out and there is a lung sanatorium.

history

Traces of Celtic, Roman and Visigoth settlement have not yet been discovered. In the 8th century Arab-Moorish armies advanced into the upper Ebro Valley. Around 1120 the area was recaptured by Alfonso I of Aragon ( reconquista ) . Later it was disputed between the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile ( Guerra de los Dos Pedros ); this state of affairs only ended with the marriage of the Catholic Kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragón in 1469.

Attractions

• The single-aisled, but with side chapels, neo-Romanesque parish church of San Martín de Tours was built in the 1930s and was not completed until 1954.
• The Centro de Interpretación de Agramonte provides information on hiking trails etc. in the Parque Natural del Moncayo .

Web links

Commons : San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo, tourism site - photo + 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. ↑ San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo - climate tables
3. ↑ San Martín de la Virgen de Moncayo - population development