Villalba de los Alcores
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 Villalba de los Alcores - View of the village with the Santiago Apóstol Church
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| Autonomous Community : |
 Castile and León
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| Province : | Valladolid | ||
| Comarca : | Tierra de Campos | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 52 ′ N , 4 ° 52 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 855 msnm | ||
| Area : | 100.67 km² | ||
| Residents : | 379 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 3.76 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 47639 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 47212 | ||
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| Website : | Villalba de los Alcores | ||
Villalba de los Alcores is a northern Spanish city and a municipality ( municipio ) with 379 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the northeast of the province of Valladolid the Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon . The entire place with its castle ( castillo ) is recognized as a conjunto histórico-artístico .
location
The place Villalba de los Alcores is located in the south of a northern foothill of the Montes Torozos in the Comarca Tierra de Campos in the Castilian plateau at an altitude of about 855 m above sea level. d. M. The provincial capital Valladolid is a good 30 km (driving distance) southeast; the city of Palencia is a good 38 km to the northeast. The climate in winter is quite cold, but in summer it is warm to hot; the sparse rainfalls (approx. 445 mm / year) fall throughout the year.
Population development
| year | 1842 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2016 |
| Residents | 800 | 1,292 | 1,262 | 581 | 422 |
The population decline in the 20th century is largely due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.
economy
Field farming and viticulture have always played the most important role for the population of the region, but handicrafts and trade developed as early as the Middle Ages. In the second half of the 20th century, the tourism sector also gained greater importance.
history
In pre-Roman times the region belonged to the settlement area of the Celtic tribe of the Vaccaeans ; later came the Romans and Visigoths . In the 8th century, the area was used by the Moors invaded, but already in the 9th century Asturian-Leonese army of conquered areas north Duero back ( reconquista ) . At the end of the 10th century, the Moorish military leader Almansor temporarily wiped out the Christian successes, but in the 11th century the Kingdom of León expanded its territory again to the Duero border. Around 1210, Alfonso Téllez de Meneses received the place from the Castilian King Alfonso VIII as a fiefdom; he is considered to be the builder of the castle. After previous but repeatedly failed attempts, León finally united with the Kingdom of Castile in 1230 . The place experienced its heyday in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period.
Attractions
Since Villalba de los Alcores is located on the southern slope of a foothill of the Montes Torozos , here - unlike in the further north or west of the Tierra de Campos - all buildings are made of natural stone.
- Significant parts of the Castillo de Villalba , which was probably built by Alfonso Téllez de Meneses at the beginning of the 13th century, are still preserved, but cannot be visited. In 1520 Joan the Mad , the daughter of the Catholic Kings Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragón , stayed here for a while with the corpse of her husband Philip the Fair . In 1528 the castle served as a noble prison for the sons of the French king Franz I, who were held hostage.
- Several corner towers have been preserved from the medieval city wall ( muralla ) that surrounds the town .
- The around 1200 in the style of Romanesque resulting Iglesia de Santa María del Templo is a nave building, of which only by buttresses are received structured and stabilized outer walls. Its origins are attributed to the Knights Templar , who demonstrably owned land in the area.
- The Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol was built in the 16th century on the site of a Romanesque church, of which the semicircular apse with buttresses and a partially figurative console frieze below the eaves has been preserved. The entrance is on the south side. The interior of the church has three naves with columns on an octagonal floor plan, from which the ribs for the star vaults seem to grow out. The late baroque high altar shows twisted Solomonic columns in the style of Churriguerism .
- The small Ermita del Santo Cristo del Humilladero stands at the end of the village .
- Numerous storage rooms ( bodegas ) for wine, sausage and ham have been carved into the rocky slopes on the outskirts .
- Surroundings
- About 4 km north of the village are the ruins of the former Cistercian monastery Matallana . There is a restored pigeon house on the site of a nearby finca .
- An archaeological park ( Aula arqueológica del poblado medieval ), which deals with the living conditions in a medieval house, was set up in the former hamlet of Fuenteungrillo , about 6 km southwest of the village .
Web links
- Villalba de los Alcores, history and sights - photos + information (Spanish)
- Villalba de los Alcores, Castillo - Photos + Info (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - Map with altitude information
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - climate tables
- ^ Villalba de los Alcores - population development
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - History
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - Castle
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - city wall
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - Santa María Church
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - Church of Santiago-Apóstol
- ↑ Villalba de los Alcores - Matallana