Artieda
Artieda is a Spanish municipality in the Pyrenees foothills on the edge of St James. It is located in the comarca of Jacetania in the province of Zaragoza of the Autonomous Community of Aragon.
The village lies on a hill on the southern side of the valley, which is called Canal de Berdún and near the Yesa dam and is designed as a fortified village. It can be reached from Jaca and Pamplona on the national road 240 and the Camino de Santiago.
History
Even if the establishment is documented as a villa for only 1276 are available for Artieda already evidence from the Roman era. In the parcels Campo de royo, Forao de la tuta, Viñas del Sastre and Corrales de Villasués there are other archaeological sites of Roman times.
From the Middle Ages is at least a change of landlords known and no later than 919 the village belonged to the monastery of Leyre, because it led away his tithes there at that time.
Architecture
The village has largely preserved its medieval character. It is influenced by the folk architecture of the Aragonese mountain regions, but there are also buildings with Renaissance and classical influences such as the Casa del Hospital.
The nave church dates from the Romanesque and the hl. Dedicated to Martin. In the course easier conversions two chapels were built in the 17th century. The altar - reredos also date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Besides the parish church located in the municipality for several hermitages: Ermita de San Pedro, Ermita de San Babil, Ermita de Santa Lucía, Ermita de Santa Cruz and Ermita de San Tornil.
Another important building is the Casa de los Diezmos already mentioned, which was built due to a donation by the King and Queen of Sancho Garcés and Toda of Navarre dated 18 March 918.
Climate
The climate in the Canal de Berdún is a dry Mediterranean - continental mountain climate. For the Pyrenees and the surrounding mountain ranges means the mild summers and long, cold winters.
Demographics
Economy
Artieda lives of farm and livestock products. Traditional farming villagers vegetable gardens for their own use. Only recently have opened up with the Camino de Santiago and the rural tourism other sources of income to which they responded in the village with a pilgrims' hostel and a Casa rural.
Festivals and traditions
- January 6: Cabalgata de Reyes, Epiphany for children
- February: Carnival, general dressing up, the young people pull through the village and ask for donations for a big, communal village food
- Holy Week: various processions, inter alia, Way of the Cross with stations at individual homes, at their balconies white sheets to be hanged.
- Easter Sunday: call instead of bells loud ratchet to the Fair
- Pentecost Sunday: common village food in the hermitage Ermita de San Pedro
- November 11, St. Martin: village common food in the village square
- December 24, Christmas Eve: big fire in the village square where the villagers gather, sausages and fry punch or wine quemado, a kind of mulled wine drink.