Tudela (Navarre)

Tudela municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Comarca :	Ribera Tudelana
Coordinates	42 ° 4 ′  N , 1 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 4 ′  N , 1 ° 36 ′  W
Height :	275  msnm
Area :	215.7 km²
Residents :	36,258 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	168.09 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	31500
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31232
administration
Mayor :	Luis Casado ( UPN )
Website :	www.tudela.com
Location of the municipality

Tudela is a city in Navarra , Spain .

Geographical location

Physical geography

Tudela is located in the south of the Navarra region in the Ebro Valley at an altitude of 275 m. The city is dominated by the Sagrado Corazón monument, which was built on the castle ruins.

Population development

The city has 36,258 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

history

• 11th century. First documentary evidence of the city's existence.
• 1119 Conquest by King Alfonso I "el Batallador", King of Pamplona and Aragon.
• 1808 Battle of Tudela , on November 23rd, a Spanish army under General Francisco Javier Castaños is defeated by a French army led by Marshals Lannes and Moncey near the city .
• From 1784 to the Concordat of 1851, the city was the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese .

politics

The central Plaza de los Fueros (on June 24, 2005 on the occasion of the Santa Ana celebrations)

The Ebro near Tudela

Santa María Cathedral

Municipal council

Historical development in the municipal council of Tudela

Political party	2011		2007
	Be right %	Seats	Be right %	Seats
UPN	33.44%	8th	49.29%	12
PSOE	22.61%	5	31.23%	7th
Izquierda-Ezkerra (N)	17.76%	4th	-	-
PP	16.07%	4th	-	-
Nafarroa Bai (Na-Bai)	3.32%	0	10.95%	2
Bildu	2.37%	0	-	-

mayor

The democratically elected mayor

Term of office	mayor	Political party
1979-1980	Francisco Alava Jiménez	PSN-PSOE
1980-1983	Alberto Tantos Bordonaba	PSN-PSOE
1983-1987	José Antonio Pérez Sola	PSN-PSOE
1991-1995	José Antonio Pérez Sola	PSN-PSOE
1995-1999	Luis Campoy Zueco	UPN-PP
1999-2003	Luis Campoy Zueco	UPN-PP
2003-2007	Luis Casado Oliver	UPN-PP
2007-2011	Luis Casado Oliver	UPN
2011–	Luis Casado Oliver	UPN

economy

Tudela is the center of viticulture in the Navarre wine-growing region .

Town twinning

• Mauléon-Licharre , France (1965)
• Tiberias , Israel (1984)
• Mont-de-Marsan , France (1986)
• Coquimbo , Chile (2006, as "digital partnership")

sons and daughters of the town

• Al-A'ma al-Tutili († 1126), blind Muladic poet
• Jehuda ha-Levi (1075–1141), Jewish philosopher
• Abraham ibn Esra (1092–1167), Jewish scholar and writer
• Benjamin von Tudela († approx. 1173), Jewish world traveler
• Guilhem de Tudèla , Occitan poet of the song of the Albigensian Crusade around 1213
• Schemtow ibn Schaprut , doctor and scholar of the 14th century
• Michael Servetus (1509 / 11–1553), doctor, scholar and anti-Trinitarian theologian
• Rafael Moneo (* 1937), Spanish architect
• Ismael Urzaiz (* 1971), Spanish football player

Web links

Commons : Tudela  - 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. ^ Spanish Ministry of the Interior