Tardajos

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Tardajos municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile LeonCastile and León Castile and León
Province : Burgos
Comarca : Alfoz de Burgos
Coordinates 42 ° 21 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 21 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W
Height : 827  msnm
Area : 12.80 km²
Residents : 771 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 60.23 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ): 09377
administration
Mayor : Santiago de la Torre Saldaña

Tardajos is a place on the Camino de Santiago in the province of Burgos in the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León .

geography

The topography of the municipality is determined by the interrupted table mountains of the central Spanish table country and is therefore inconsistent: the height of the place (823 m) and the highest elevations (El Castro, 915 m, and Barrigüelo, 913 m) result in an average height of 850 m.
During the Tertiary a lake of great size and depth covered this area. Evidence of this lake are the deep sedimentary layers with fossils. The soils created in this way are very fertile. They are used almost exclusively for agriculture and are partly irrigated from the Úrbel and Arlanzón rivers.

Population development

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1975 1996 1997 2001 2004 2006
919 949 863 939 1036 1027 1025 811 747 745 712 635 622 761

history

The history of Tardajo can be traced back to the Celtic era of the Iberian Peninsula (here: 8th century BC). The evidence for this are archaeological finds from El Castro : walls and ceramics. The Celtic tribe was called Turmogi , they came from Central Europe and also settled the city of Deobrigula, which is partly regarded as the forerunner of today's Tardajos. Deobrigula is mentioned in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy and in the Itinerarium Antonini as a Roman camp. The original core of the settlement is presumed based on the archaeological finds - dating back to the Iron Age - and the discovery of Roman defenses in the aforementioned El Castro. However, there are no clear place assignments, so that the neighboring town of Rabé de las Calzadas sees itself as Deobrigula's successor.

Tardajos from the direction of Rabé de las Calzadas

After the final conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans and the end of the fighting with Celtiberian tribes, the settlement relocated to the plains, where its inhabitants in turn left ceramics, bronze objects and inscriptions that were easy to evaluate for posterity.

In the year 882 under Alfons III. (Asturias) began to be repopulated after the Reconquista of the area. Nuño Núñez, Count of Castile, began at the same time to build a line of defense to the castle of Castrojeriz , which follows the course of the Río Arlanzón . This includes the "Castillo de Tardajos" among others. For 929 there is a mention of "Otero de Ajos" (Hill of Garlic) and the local churches of San Pelayo and Santa Eulalia. In 1117 Alfonso VII was a prisoner of Count Pedro de Lara in the Castillo de Tardajos. The Fueros de Tardajos are from this time .

During the reign of Alfonso VIII, the Santa María district was under the control of the Burgales Bishop, while the Barrio del Rey district belonged to the Hospital del Rey . In 1749 the division of the town into two quarters continued with two churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. Magdalena. There were also six Ermitas: San Sebastian, San Juan (St. John), San Salvador (Savior), Santiago (St. Jacob), San Lázaro (St. Lazarus) and San Roque (St. Roch). The connection with the pilgrimage is made clear by saints such as Jacob, Rochus and Lazarus.

Tardajos was the most important place in the comarca after Burgos until 1955 .

literature

  • Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .

Web links

Commons : Tardajos  - 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).
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