Tafalla

Tafalla municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Coordinates	42 ° 32 ′  N , 1 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 32 ′  N , 1 ° 41 ′  W
Height :	421  msnm
Area :	98.08 km²
Residents :	10,595 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	108.02 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-31300
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31227
administration
Mayor :	Cristina Sota ( UPN )
Website :	www.tafalla.es
Location of the municipality

Tafalla [ taˈfaʎa ] is a Navarren city ​​in Spain . It is located 35 km south of Pamplona and has 10,595 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). Tafalla received city rights in 1636. Today it is the center of the comarca and central Navarra.

Culture

In the so-called Ciudad del Zidacos , or Tubala (during Roman rule), there is the Romanesque church of Santa María. In the church are the altar with an essay by Juan de Ancheta , the stone carvings of the choir from 1760 and an unfinished sculpture from the 15th century.

There is an older church, San Pedro, whose existence was documented as early as 1157. It has a portal with five pointed arches. Inside there is a Gothic altarpiece attributed to the painter Joaquín Oliveras .

The Purísima Concepción and San Francisco monasteries have some artistically valuable works.

There was also a 15th century castle built by order of Charles III. built by Navarre and destroyed on the orders of Cardinal Cisneros .

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

politics

Historical development in Tafalla town council

Political party	2011		2007
	Be right %	Seats	Be right %	Seats
Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN)	34.93%	7th	36.01%	7th
Bildu	30.45%	6th	-	-
PSOE	17.83%	3	19.19%	4th
Iniciativa por Tafalla (IT)	5.06%	1	11.13%	2
Na-Bai	1.81%	0	13.52%	2
Acción Nacionalista Vasca (EAE-ANV)	-	-	13.96%	2
Source: Spanish Ministry of the Interior

The democratically elected mayor

Term of office	mayor	Political party
1979-1983	Javier Baztán Gorría	APE
1983-1987	Pablo Jurío	PSN-PSOE
1987-1991	Pablo Jurío	PSN-PSOE
1991-1995	José Iribas Sánchez de Boado	UPN
1995-1999	Luis Valero Erro	UPN
1999-2003	Luis Valero Erro	UPN
2003-2007	María Teresa Mañú Echaide	PSN-PSOE
2007-2011	Cristina Sota Pernaut	UPN
2011–0000	Cristina Sota Pernaut	UPN

Daughters of the place

• Florentina Nicol Goñi (1868–1940), founder of the order and blessed of the Catholic Church

Web links

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

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).