San Pedro de Gaíllos

San Pedro de Gaíllos municipality
San Pedro de Gaíllos - Church
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Segovia
Comarca :	Villa y Tierra de Sepúlveda
Coordinates	41 ° 14 ′  N , 3 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 14 ′  N , 3 ° 49 ′  W
Height :	991  msnm
Area :	26.08 km²
Residents :	285 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	10.93 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	40389
Municipality number  ( INE ):	40184
administration
Website :	Ayuntamiento de San Pedro de Gaíllos www.sanpedrodegaillos.com/ Ayuntamiento de San Pedro de Gaíllos

San Pedro de Gaíllos is a municipality ( municipio ) with 285 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northeast of the Spanish province of Segovia in the autonomous community of Castile and León . The municipality also includes the villages of Aldealafuente, Aldearraso, El Barruelo and Rebollar , all of which, except for Rebollar , have been abandoned in recent decades.

location

San Pedro de Gaíllos is located in the barren mountain landscape in the northeast of the province of Segovia at an altitude of almost 1000 meters above sea level. d. M. The distance to the nearest town, Sepúlveda , is about 14 kilometers (driving distance) in a north-easterly direction. The provincial capital Segovia is about 48 kilometers southwest.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1991	2004	2012	2018
Residents	775	569	369	297	353	317	297

In the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, the number of inhabitants fluctuated between 600 and 800.

economy

With the exception of barley and a little wheat , hardly any grain was possible to grow on the barren soils of the cold plateaus of the Segovia province . For centuries, the population lived mainly from breeding sheep and goats, from whose milk cheese was made, which after laborious transport could be sold at the market in Sepúlveda or exchanged for flour, vegetables, etc.

history

Little information is available on the history of the place: it goes back to the Middle Ages; around the year 1000 the place appears as part of the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Sepúlveda . The Romanesque church of San Pedro is still a testimony to the heyday of the place in the High Middle Ages; the tower of the church was renewed in the 16th century.

Attractions

• The Romanesque Iglesia San Pedro received a south porch ( portico ) made of precisely hewn stones around 1200 , the five arches of which are symmetrically arranged on the south side; another portal arch is on the east side. In the same context, a tower was built in the south-west corner, but it was rebuilt or renewed in the 16th century (perhaps even later) in the Renaissance style. The decor of the two porch portals consists of circumferential zigzag patterns that are not interrupted by capitals , as can be found in the churches of Sotosalbos , Perorrubio and on the west side of the church of El Arenal . The actual archivolt portal to the church is in the line of the vestibule portal ; it emerges from the surrounding, albeit plastered, quarry stone masonry and shows a rich decoration of rosettes , leaf motifs, spirals , block friezes and tendrils . Above all, the rosette and spiral patterns on the face of the inner arch are rarely seen in their kind in European Romanesque; perhaps they were assigned a disastrous ( apotropaic ) function. The many - unfortunately already badly damaged - depictions of birds and people on the capitals and consoles also deserve attention.

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  Lobby portal

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  Main portal

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  Main portal, details

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  Capital with birds

Web links

Commons : San Pedro de Gaíllos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• San Pedro de Gaíllos, church - photos + information (Spanish)
• Romanesque churches in the Sepulveda area - photos + information (Spanish)
• Catalog of churches with vestibules - 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).