Sarracín

Sarracín municipality
	Palacio de Saldañuela
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and Leon
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Alfoz de Burgos
Coordinates	42 ° 15 ′ N , 3 ° 41 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 15 ′ N , 3 ° 41 ′ W
Height :	868 msnm
Area :	9.61 km²
Residents :	252 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	26.22 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09620
Municipality number ( INE ):	09362
administration
Website :	Ayuntamiento de Sarracín www.sarracin.es/ Ayuntamiento de Sarracín

Sarracín is a municipality ( municipio ) with 252 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Burgos in the northern Spanish autonomous region of Castile and León .

location

Sarracín is located in the Castilian plateau ( meseta ) through which the Río Ausin flows at an altitude of about 870 meters above sea level. d. M. and is almost eleven kilometers (driving distance) in a southerly direction from the city of Burgos . The neighboring towns of Villariezo and Arcos de la Llana , also on the Río Ausín, are just under six and ten kilometers to the west.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001
Residents	251	210	167	146	271

In the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, the population fluctuated between around 200 and 350 inhabitants. Thereafter, the mechanization of agriculture led to the migration of a large part of the population to the cities. The proximity to Burgos and the comparatively low property prices led to a resurgence of the population around the turn of the millennium.

economy

The region has been largely shaped by agriculture for centuries. Tourism hardly plays a role.

history

A family named Sarracino is mentioned for the first time in a document from 963. The name passed to a small monastery and a place of the same name in the High Middle Ages. A castle ( castillo ) also seems to have existed. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Palacio de Saldañuela was built about one kilometer south-east .

Attractions

Palacio de Saldañuela around 1900

The Palacio de Saldañuela goes back to a late medieval castle, of which only the main tower ( torre de homenaje ) remained. The initiative to build the actual palace with its harmoniously designed south gallery came from Doña Isabel de Osorio (1522–1589), a long-time lover of Philip II , with whom the monarch allegedly had two children. The building with its beautiful inner courtyard, completed around 1562, was acquired by Caja Burgos in the 20th century and served as a picture gallery and guest house; it was converted into a hotel in 2010.
The parish church was originally a single-nave building with a broad, defensive-looking facade. The interior was completely redesigned at the end of the 20th century.
The Hermit Church ( Ermita del Cristo de los Buenos Temporales ), a single-nave building with a bell gable ( espadaña ), seems to belong to the same period as the Palacio de Saldañuela . The corners of the gable field are adorned with small obelisks and spheres that are reminiscent of the approximately simultaneous construction of the Escorial .
The Torre de los Salamanca is the only remnant of a medieval castle or fortified manor. It is also known under the name palomar ("pigeon house").

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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).

[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).