Tirgo

Tirgo municipality
	Tirgo - town view
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	La Rioja
Comarca :	Haro
Coordinates	42 ° 33 ′ N , 2 ° 57 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 33 ′ N , 2 ° 57 ′ W
Height :	516 msnm
Area :	9.14 km²
Residents :	180 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	19.69 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26211
Municipality number ( INE ):	26148

Tirgo is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) on the lower reaches of the Río Tirón in the Spanish region of La Rioja with about 78 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

location

Tirgo is located on the lower reaches of the Río Tirón in the northwest of the province of La Rioja at an altitude of approx. 520 meters. A good 50 kilometers separate the town from Logroño ; the next larger cities are Haro (10 kilometers northeast) and Miranda de Ebro (approx 19 kilometers north). The small town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada on the Way of St. James is only about 14 kilometers south.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2010
Residents	517	381	278	290	247	232

In the second half of the 19th century, the place always had over 600 inhabitants; As a result of the phylloxera crisis , the mechanization of agriculture and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants has declined significantly since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

In the first place in the economic life of the community traditionally ranks agriculture and especially cattle breeding and viticulture - Tirgo belongs to the growing area of the Rioja Alta . In addition, wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables are cultivated.

history

The original place name was - after the Celtiberian tribe of the Autrigones - Autrigón , later then Trigón , based on the name of the river.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 978 in connection with a donation of the Church of Santa María de Tirbo by the Castilian Count García Fernández and his wife to the convent of Covarrubias . In the following centuries the place was sometimes under Castilian and sometimes under Navarre suzerainty. In the 17th century Tirgo was recognized as an independent city ( villa ).

San Salvador Church

Attractions

The single-nave late Romanesque church of San Salvador , built from precisely hewn stones, dates back to around 1200. According to local tradition, although there is no clear evidence, it sometimes appears close to the Knights Templar, which was dissolved in 1317 . In contrast to the church in the neighboring village of Ochánduri , which was built around the same time, it has a richly ornamented Romanesque west portal and a high west tower in addition to the more lavishly designed south portal in the region. The top floor of the tower (maybe even the whole tower) is an addition of the Baroque period . A bell gable ( espadaña ) rises above the triumphal arch between the nave and the apse. The Romanesque apses of both buildings look very similar.
A few houses in the village have heraldic shields made of stone .

Web links

Commons : Tirgo - 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).