Trillo (Spain)

Trillo municipality
Trillo - View of the town with the Iglesia de la Asunción
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 42 ′  N , 2 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′  N , 2 ° 35 ′  W
Height :	757  msnm
Area :	161.87 km²
Residents :	1,319 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.15 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19450
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19291
administration
Website :	Trillo

Trillo is a central Spanish town and a municipality ( municipio ) consisting of several villages, hamlets and farmsteads with a total of 1,319 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The almost 760  m high place Trillo is located on the west side of the Iberian Mountains at the confluence of the Río Cifuentes in the Tagus . The provincial capital Guadalajara is approx. 75 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 425 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	759	871	968	1,387	1,319

Due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the community would have declined sharply since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ) if it weren't for several villages (pueblos or aldeas) and hamlets in the 1960s (pedanías) have been incorporated: Azañon , Morillejo , La Puerta and Viana de Mondéjar .

economy

Agriculture was only possible to a very limited extent in the mountainous and rocky landscape; The main focus was therefore on livestock farming , whose long-life products (cheese, sausage and wool) could be exchanged for grain across the Tagus River or sold on the city markets. The Ruta de la Lana , a medieval trade and pilgrimage route that began in Alicante and led via Cuenca to Burgos , ran through the town . In the 18th century the place developed into a trading center for agriculture and livestock. At the end of the 20th century, the Trillo nuclear power plant was built about 6 km west of the town .

history

The place was already known in Roman times because of the thermal springs located about 2 km to the north , but so far there is no evidence of Visigothic and Islamic - Moorish settlement. An armed reconquest ( reconquista ) of the place therefore probably did not take place. At the end of the 11th century, Alfonso VI divided. from León the place in the Comúnidad de la Villa y Tierra de Atienza . In 1325 the Infanta Juan Manuel had a castle (castillo) built. Around the middle of the 15th century, the place came under the jurisdiction of the Counts of Cifuentes , from which it was only able to break free in 1630. The place then experienced a heyday, but was destroyed by English and Portuguese army units during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).

Attractions

Trillo - Renaissance altar

Trillo - Plaza Mayor

• The old town center on the north side of the Tagus is quite handsome.
• The confluence of the Río Cifuentes into the Tajo, formed by a waterfall, is also worth seeing.
• The single-nave Iglesia de la Asunción , built in the 16th century, shows late Gothic and Renaissance elements. The nave (nature) is of an open wooden roof covered, whereas the slightly retracted apse rib curved is; outstanding is divided into fields painted Altarretabel (retablo) , which is assigned to an unknown workshop. Also noteworthy is the Romanesque baptismal font (pila bautismal) from the previous church .
• The single arch bridge (puente) over the Tagus dates from the 16th century; however, it was renewed in the 19th century.

Surroundings

• Approx. 8 km (driving distance) east of the village are the ruins of the former Cistercian monastery Óvila .
• The Romanesque church in the hamlet of Viana de Mondéjar, which is about 9 km to the south and still has about 20 inhabitants, is also worth a visit.
• The church in the hamlet of Azañon dates from the 16th century and is similar to that of Trillo.

Web links

Commons : Trillo, Guadalajara  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Trillo, tourism site - photos + information (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. ↑ Trillo - climate tables
3. ^ Trillo - population development