Venturada

Venturada municipality
Venturada - the townscape
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Province :	Madrid
Coordinates	40 ° 48 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 48 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  W
Height :	864  msnm
Area :	47.24 km²
Residents :	2,163 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	45.79 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	28729
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28169
administration
Website :	Ayuntamiento Venturada www.venturada.es/ Ayuntamiento Venturada

Venturada is a municipality ( municipio ) in the Autonomous Community of Madrid . The old town center was classified as a cultural asset ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) in the Conjunto histórico-artístico category because of its historical buildings .

Location and traffic

Venturada is about 53 kilometers north of the city of Madrid . The neighboring municipality of Talamanca de Jarama is about 20 kilometers southeast.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2010
Residents	160	116	295	332	919	1,741

In the 19th century the population was consistently below 200 people. Comparatively low property prices and rents have led to an influx of people from rural areas, but also from the city of Madrid, in recent years.

economy

For a long time Venturada was a small market town north of Madrid. The place was essentially characterized by an agricultural self-sufficiency economy.

history

Archaeological traces of the Iberians , Romans and Visigoths are missing. The earliest evidence of local history is therefore the watchtower ( Atalaya ) from the Islamic period (approx. 950) on a mountain peak to the north and a necropolis on the outskirts from the same period. Otherwise the region was in 10/11. Century largely abandoned and was only after the reconquest ( reconquista ) Toledo (1085) under Alfonso VI. repopulated ( repoblación ). The church of Santiago Apóstol was built around 1200 . Otherwise, the place largely shares the history of the larger neighboring town of Talamanca de Jarama .

Attractions

Santiago Apóstol Church

• The small single-nave parish church of Santiago Apóstol is one of the few examples of Romanesque architecture in the Madrid area, which is mainly due to the repopulation of the region, which was only completed around 1200. The building, made entirely of hardly worked rubble stone, has a bell gable ( espadaña ) made of stone in the west , which may date from the 15th or 16th century, but no entrance; this is located on the south side and shows an extremely simple Romanesque design language. The east part of the church consists of a vestibule and a small square apse .

Hoof buck ( potro de herrar )

• Another attraction of the place is a well-preserved or lovingly restored 'Beschlagbock' or ' Hoofbock ' ( potro de hierro ), as it existed - in different forms - in earlier times in many rural areas of Europe. Wandering farriers tended the hooves of the horses and cattle here, which were fixed with the help of ropes and belts; Brand marks could also be administered here. In earlier times the frame was certainly neither covered nor accessible via stairs. Most of these structures were on the outskirts - because of the dirt and the roaring of the animals, but mainly because of the additional risk of fire from flying sparks .

Atalaya

Atalaya de Venturada

• A round tower ( atalaya ) made of uncut natural stone stands on a mountain range about 1000 meters high, a few kilometers north of the town. It was probably built in the 10th century. H. during the time of Islamic rule, when a watchtower and signal tower was built. It belongs to a group of several towers, most of which are in the territory of the Talamanca de Jarama municipality. The tower is particularly impressive because of its isolated location and the inclusion of natural rock to reach the entrance, which is around 2.5 meters high. It has a diameter of about six meters and, with its walls about one meter thick, reaches a height of about nine meters. Inside, the wooden viewing platform could only be reached via wooden intermediate levels and with the help of ladders.

Web links

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

• Venturada, historical buildings - 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).