Torrecilla en Cameros

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Torrecilla en Cameros municipality
Torrecilla en Cameros - View of the town with the Iglesia de San Martín
Torrecilla en Cameros - View of the town with the Iglesia de San Martín
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Coat of arms of Torrecilla en Cameros
Torrecilla en Cameros (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : La RiojaLa Rioja La Rioja
Province : La Rioja
Comarca : Camero Nuevo
Coordinates 42 ° 15 ′  N , 2 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 15 ′  N , 2 ° 38 ′  W
Height : 775  msnm
Area : 30.47 km²
Residents : 456 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 14.97 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 26100
Municipality number  ( INE ): 26151
administration
Website : Torrecilla en Cameros

Torrecilla en Cameros is a mountain town and a municipality ( municipio ) belonging to the poorly populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica with only 456 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Torrecilla en Cameros is located on the Río Iregua a good 31 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of about 775  m . Soria , the capital of the Old Castilian province bordering the Rioja to the south , is located approx. 71 km southeast. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 565 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2001 2018
Residents 2,000 1,545 1,470 555 464

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the population of the mountain town has declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century.

economy

For centuries, the community was oriented towards agriculture for the purpose of self-sufficiency , with livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) in the foreground. 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 . In the Middle Ages, the region was disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and the Kingdom of Navarre . Although the place is not the right letter ( fuero ) Henry of Trastamara was listed from the year 1366, it developed gradually to the capital (capital) of the Tierra de Cameros . After the abolition of the manorial system in 1811, it belonged to the province of Soria and only came to the newly created province of Logroño in 1833, from which the La Rioja region later emerged.

Attractions

Ermita de San Andrés
Ermita de San Pedro
  • The Iglesia de San Martín , built in the 16th century - probably on the site of a previous building that had been demolished - is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours ; the bell tower (campanario) was added in 1764. The church has three naves; all three naves have star vaults of the same height ( hall church ). The three baroque altars (retablos) at the east end of the three naves are splendid .
  • The vaults of the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Vegas , also built in the 16th century, have collapsed; the church is overall in a ruinous state.
  • The Ermita de San Andrés with its circular apse probably has a Mozarabic origin; it is dated around the year 1000.
  • The village has several wells (fuentes) , whose basin as livestock watering (Abrevadero) or as a washing area (lavadero) were used.
  • A wide-span, single-arched medieval stone bridge connects the two districts.
Surroundings
  • About 2 km west of the village is the early Romanesque Ermita den San Pedro - it too shows Mozarabic influences.

Web links

Commons : Torrecilla 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. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - climate tables
  3. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - population development
  4. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - Church
  5. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - Ermita San Andrés
  6. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - Ermita San Andrés
  7. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - Bridge
  8. ↑ Torrecilla en Cameros - Hike to the Ermita de San Pedro