Santa Cecilia (Burgos)

Santa Cecilia parish
Santa Cecilia - Iglesia de Santa Cecilia
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza (Comarca)
Coordinates	42 ° 3 ′  N , 3 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′  N , 3 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	845  msnm
Area :	12.46 km²
Residents :	102 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.19 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09341
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09343
administration
Website :	Santa Cecilia

Santa Cecilia is a place and a northern Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with only 102 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the center of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .

Location and climate

The place Santa Cecilia is about 2 km north of the Río Arlanza in the Castilian plateau (meseta) about 43 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Burgos at an altitude of about 845  m ; the historically significant town of Lerma is only about 5 km to the south-east. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 500 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	263	287	273	135	101

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

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; Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. On March 25, 1608, Philip III sold the lordship (señorio) over Santa Cecilia and more than 300 other places to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas , the Duke of Lerma.

Attractions

• The single-nave Iglesia de Santa Cecilia was built from rubble stones in the 17th century on the site of a previous medieval building; it has a south porch ( portico ) . The church windows are unusually rectangular.
• An old defensive tower (torre) was demolished in 1613 by the Duke of Lerma, who reused the stones in his buildings in Lerma.

Web links

Commons : Santa Cecilia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Santa Cecilia - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, 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. ↑ Santa Cecilia / Lerma - climate tables
3. ↑ Santa Cecilia - Population Development
4. ↑ Santa Cecilia - Story