Trasobares

Trasobares municipality
Trasobares - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Aranda (Spain)
Coordinates	41 ° 39 ′  N , 1 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 39 ′  N , 1 ° 38 ′  W
Height :	700  msnm
Area :	71.76 km²
Residents :	122 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.7 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50268
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50266
administration
Website :	Trasobares

Trasobares is a northern Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 122 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the west of the province of Saragossa in the west of the autonomous region of Aragon . The place belongs to the poorly populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Trasobares is located on the Río Isuela about 25 km (as the crow flies) southeast of the maximum 2315  m high Sierra de Moncayo and almost 90 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Saragossa near the border with the Old Castilian province of Soria at an altitude of about 650 to 725  m . The climate is temperate to warm; the rather sparse rain (approx. 460 mm / year) falls spread over the year with the exception of the dry summer months.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	829	529	985	226	121

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs led to a significant decline in the population ( rural exodus ) since the middle of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries, the residents of the village lived directly or indirectly as self-sufficiency from agriculture, which also included livestock farming. The processing of sheep's wool was an important economic factor in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today orchards and viticulture play important roles in the economic life of the place; In addition, holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out.

history

Although the place belonged to the settlement area of ​​the Celtiberian Lusones , so far neither Celtiberian nor Roman or Visigoth traces have been discovered. In the 8th century Arab-Moorish armies penetrated into the upper Ebro Valley, but even from this period there are no archaeologically usable traces. Around 1120 the area was recaptured by Alfonso I of Aragon ( reconquista ) . In 1168, King Alfonso II of Aragón (r. 1162–1196) founded a Cistercian nunnery here, which formed the core of today's town. The area was long disputed between the kingdoms of Aragón and Castile ( Guerra de los Dos Pedros ) ; this dispute only ended with the marriage of the Catholic Kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragón in 1469.

Trasobares - bell tower

Attractions

The former monastery church (Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora) - completely rebuilt in the Renaissance and modernized again in the Baroque - forms the core of today's town. It is built entirely from rubble stones ; only the bell tower (campanar) , the upper floors of which show Mudejar ornaments , is made of bricks . The nave is covered with a star vault ; the altarpiece (retablo) in the polygonal broken apse dates back to the early 17th century.

Web links

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

• Trasobares - Photos + Quick Facts (Spanish)

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. ↑ Trasobares - climate tables
3. ↑ Trasobares - population development
4. ↑ Trasobares - Church