Torre en Cameros

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : La RiojaLa Rioja La Rioja
Comarca : Tierra de Cameros
Coordinates 42 ° 14 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  W
Height : 1125  msnm
Area : 11.64 km²
Residents : 10 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 0.86 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 26134
Municipality number  ( INE ): 26153
administration
Website : Torre en Cameros

Torre en Cameros is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) belonging to the populous Serranía Celtibérica with only 10 permanent residents (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Torre en Cameros is located in a side valley of the Río Leza almost 47 km (driving distance) south of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of about 1125  m . Soria , the capital of the Old Castilian province bordering the Rioja to the south , is located approx. 74 km south. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 675 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2018
Residents 221 221 166 14th 10

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants in the mountain town has declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

For centuries, the community was agriculturally oriented for the purpose of self-sufficiency , with livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) in the foreground; Weaving products were made from the sheep's wool and could also be exchanged or sold. Today holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out mainly in the summer months .

history

Celtiberian , Roman , Visigoth and even Islamic-Moorish traces of settlement were not discovered in the municipality. The high-lying area served as summer pasture for sheep and goats for centuries . A military reconquest ( reconquista ) by the Christians did not take place, but the place was gradually settled as part of the Repoblación . Since around 1040 the area belonged to García Sánchez III. Navarra created manorial (señorio) of Tierra de Cameros . In the Middle Ages, the region was at times disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and Navarre . In 1366 the proclaimed Castilian king Henry of Trastamara gave the territory of the Cameros to his faithful Juan Ramírez de Arellano, the later Count of Aguilar, whose descendants ruled for a long time. After the abolition of the manors in 1811, it belonged to the province of Soria and only came to the newly created province of Logroño in 1833, from which the region of La Rioja later emerged.

As the last place in the area of ​​the Cameros, Torre was connected to the public electricity grid in 2006.

restored house front

Attractions

  • Parts of the place are left to decay; some quarry stone houses in the center have been restored by private individuals.
  • The single nave Iglesia de San Martín , built in the 16th century, has a polygonal broken apse ; the bell tower (campanario) has a stone pyramid roof.

literature

Web links

Commons : Torre en Cameros  - 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).
  2. ↑ Torre en Cameros - climate tables
  3. ↑ Torre en Cameros - population development