Sayatón

Sayatón municipality
Sayatón - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 23 ′  N , 2 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 23 ′  N , 2 ° 51 ′  W
Height :	670  msnm
Area :	45.38 km²
Residents :	78 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.72 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19119
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19252
administration
Website :	Sayatón

Sayatón is a central Spanish city and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 78 inhabitants (as at 1st January 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The almost 670  m high town of Sayatón is located in the center of the Alcarria landscape, approx. 300 m north of a bend in the Tagus River in the north of the southern part of the Iberian Plateau ( meseta ) . Guadalajara , the provincial capital, is a good 63 km (driving distance) to the northwest; the lovely town of Pastrana is only 40 km away. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 425 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	411	480	798	150	78

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The people of earlier centuries lived mainly as self-sufficiency from agriculture and livestock farming , whose durable products (cheese, sausage, animal skins and wool) could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders.

history

The Celts , Romans , Visigoths and even the Moors left no usable traces on the municipality. In the second half of the 11th century the latter were by the army of King Alfonso VI. driven out of the region by León ( reconquista ) ; then began the phase of repopulation ( repoblación ) by Christians from many parts of the Iberian Peninsula . A written mention of the place name from the Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that it originated in the 14th / 15th Century from. In 1539, Doña Ana de la Cerda, the grandmother of the Princess of Eboli († 1592) acquired the place and its surroundings; these remained under the manorial rule (señorio) of the Duchy of El Infantado and thus the House of Mendoza (see coat of arms) until the beginning of the 19th century.

Attractions

Castillo de Anguix

• The Iglesia de San Pedro ad Vincula , built from rubble stones, was built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Century; only the upper floor of the bell tower (campanario) shows a mixture of broken and brick layers and thus a reference to the Mudejar construction method . The interior of the church has a single nave, but has a transept and a crossing dome .
• The Ermita de San Roque from the 17th century is on the outskirts .
• At the other end of the village there is a newly erected court column (roller blind) .

Surroundings

• Approx. 15 km (as the crow flies) or 40 km (driving distance) northeast of Sayatón are the ruins of the Castillo de Anguix above the Tajo, which was known as early as the 11th century . Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones , Marquis (marqués) of Mondéjar and Count (conde) of Tendilla , came into possession of the old castle in 1484 and had it rebuilt at the end of the 15th century. During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) it was badly damaged.

literature

• Maria de los Angeles Alvarez Sierra and others: Historia de Sayatón . AACHE Ediciones, Guadalajara 2003, ISBN 978-84-933210-0-0 (Spanish).

Web links

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

• Sayatón - 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).
2. ↑ Sayatón / Sacedón - climate tables
3. ↑ Sayatón - Population Development
4. ↑ Sayatón - History