Solarana

Solarana community
Solarana - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza Comarca
Coordinates	41 ° 58 ′  N , 3 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 58 ′  N , 3 ° 40 ′  W
Height :	905  msnm
Area :	14.65 km²
Residents :	74 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	5.05 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09348
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09366
administration
Website :	Solarana

Solarana is a place and a northern Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with only 74 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 Solarana is about 6 km north of the Río Arlanza in the Castilian plateau (meseta) about 51 km (driving distance) south of the provincial capital Burgos at an altitude of about 905  m ; the historically significant town of Lerma is only about 10 km to the north-west. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 510 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	352	391	310	111	77

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. A Celtic castrum from around 200 BC. BC was discovered not far from the border to the neighboring town of Castrillo de Solarana , but the finds are sparse. Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. On March 25, 1608, Philip III sold the manorial rule (señorio) over Solarana and more than 300 other places to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas , the Duke of Lerma.

Attractions

• The small but three-aisled Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century made of rubble stones on the site of a previous medieval building, of which the portal is still preserved; the bell tower (campanario) , made of precisely hewn stones, rises above the apse and is a later addition. Inside, the baroque main altar from 1755 is impressive.
• In front of the town hall on the Plaza Mayor there is a court column (roller blind) .
• A small museum with finds and tools from the region has been set up in the Ermita de San Miguel .

Web links

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

• Solarana - 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. ↑ Solarana - climate tables
3. ↑ Solarana - population development
4. ↑ Solarana - History