Vileña

Vileña municipality
Vileña - ruined monastery and church
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	La Bureba
Coordinates	42 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 19 ′  W
Height :	700  msnm
Area :	6.35 km²
Residents :	28 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	4.41 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09249
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09423
administration
Website :	Ayuntamiento de Vileña

Vileña is a place and a Spanish municipality ( municipio ) with 28 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the north of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon .

Location and climate

Vileña is located in the valley of the Río Oca , a good 50 km (driving distance) northeast of Burgos at an altitude of approx. 700  m ; the next larger town, Briviesca , is about 8 km south. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 705 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	365	205	181	37	28

The mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms have led to a significant decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 19th century.

economy

The inhabitants of Vileña live mainly from agriculture (arable farming and small livestock) in the fertile La Bureba region .

history

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. In 1222 Urraca López de Haro , the former mistress , but wife since 1187 and widow of Ferdinand II of Léon since 1188 , founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María la Real de Vileña in the remote valley , of which only ruins exist today. She designated it as her burial place ; later two other tombs were added. The monastery was destroyed by fire in 1970. The most important items of equipment, however, were saved and brought to Burgos.

Attractions

• The parish church of San Salvador is a single-nave building from the 16th century.
• The ruins of the Cistercian convent are just a few meters from the church. Three medieval tombs with recumbent figures ( gisants ) , a fresco of the Last Judgment from the 13th century and an altarpiece from the 16th century, all are from the holdings of the former monastery now in the Museo de Burgos and in the local Museo del Retablo shown .

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  Tomb of the Urraca López de Haro (13th century)

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  Last Judgment fresco (13th century)

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  Tomb of Día Sánchez de Rojas (14th century)

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  Retable of the Assumption of Mary (16th century)

literature

• Inocencio Cadiñanos Bardeci: El Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Vileña, see Museo y Cartulario. Caja de Ahorros Municipal de Burgos, Burgos 1990, OCLC 627740127.

Web links

Commons : Vileña  - 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. ↑ Vileña - climate tables
3. ↑ Vileña - population development