Zorita de los Canes

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Zorita de los Canes municipality
Zorita de los Canes - view of town with Tajo and castle (alcazaba)
Zorita de los Canes - view of town with Tajo and castle (alcazaba)
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Coat of arms of Zorita de los Canes
Zorita de los Canes (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile-La Mancha
Province : Guadalajara
Comarca : La Alcarria
Coordinates 40 ° 20 ′  N , 2 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 20 ′  N , 2 ° 53 ′  W
Height : 600  msnm
Area : 20.23 km²
Residents : 78 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 3.86 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 19119
Municipality number  ( INE ): 19335
administration
Website : Zorita de los Canes

Zorita de los Canes (or Zorita for short ) is a central Spanish place and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 78 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 600  m high place Zorita de los Canes is located on the Tajo River in the extreme south of the Alcarria landscape in the north of the southern part of the Iberian Plateau ( meseta ) . The provincial capital Guadalajara is approx. 50 km (driving distance) in a north-westerly direction; the lovely town of Pastrana is just under 12 km north. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 405 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 199 554 569 96 78

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The people of earlier centuries lived mainly as self-sufficiency from agriculture and livestock farming , whose durable products (cheese, sausage, animal skins and wool) could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders.

history

Celts , Romans and Visigoths left no usable traces on the municipality and even the Moors left almost nothing behind except the castle ( kasbah or alcazaba ) . In the second half of the 11th century they were taken over by King Alfonso VI's army . driven out of the region by León ( reconquista ) . In 1124 the place and castle were taken by the Knights Templar ; Fifty years later, Alfonso VIII of Castile gave both of them to the Knights of the Order of Calatrava , but they reverted to the Castilian crown in the early 13th century . In 1565 Philip II gave the manorial rule (señorio) over the place to the nobleman Ruy Gómez de Silva , who had just been appointed Duke of Pastrana , who died a few years later (1573). His wife, Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda , the "Princess of Eboli", continued the regiment until her death in 1592.

Attractions

Zorita de los Canes - Alcazaba
  • The origins of the castle (castillo or alcazaba) probably go back to the 10th century; Visigoth origins are also brought into play. It is enthroned on a rock, whose irregular shape it absorbs and even reinforces. Several entrances (some with horseshoe arches) lead to an inner courtyard, the center of which is occupied by a single-nave Romanesque church with a crypt . The rib vault of the apse and some capitals decorated with abstract designs have been preserved in the church.
  • The Iglesia de San Juan Bautista was built in the 16th century as a three-aisled church; the two-part bell gable (espadaña) is a later addition. The interior of the church is spanned by wooden ceilings. A possibly Visigoth font (pila bautismal) has been preserved.
Surroundings
  • Approx. The excavation site of the Visigothic city of Reccopolis is 2 km south of the village .

literature

  • Francisco Layna Serrano: El Castillo de Zorita de los Canes . AACHE Ediciones, Guadalajara 2015, ISBN 978-84-15537-82-3 .

Web links

Commons : Zorita de los Canes  - 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. ↑ Zorita de los Canes - climate tables
  3. ^ Zorita de los Canes - population development
  4. ↑ Zorita de los Canes - Castle
  5. ↑ Zorita de los Canes - Castle
  6. ↑ Zorita de los Canes - Castle