Barruecopardo

Template: Infobox church in Spain / Maintenance / Province Barruecopardo is a North Spanish municipality ( municipio ) in the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile -Leon.

Location

Barruecopardo is in the northwest of the province of Salamanca, at an altitude of about 730 meters above sea level. inst in the rocky landscape of the Natural Park Arribes del Duero near the Saucelle Dam, which impounds the River Duero. The provincial capital Salamanca is a good 90 km ( driving distance ) away to the east.

Demographics

In the first half of the 20th century the place had constant around 1,000 inhabitants. The jump in the late 1950s and early 1960s is due to the temporary influx of workers and engineers and their families during the construction of Saucelle Dam. As a result of the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture, the population has since declined to the current lows.

Economy

Agriculture ( crop production and animal husbandry ) has traditionally played the largest role in the economy of the community. In the 20th century has been temporarily reduced in a nearby iron mine tungsten; are currently working to further expand the mine in progress. Revenue from tourism in the form of the rental of apartments ( casas rurales ) have been added in recent decades.

History

Some made ​​in the 1960s, smaller archaeological finds from the late Paleolithic era indicate the presence of people in the period around 9000 BC in the area. The presence of the Celtic tribe of Vettones and the subsequent Roman is busy. From this time some stelae with Latin characters and a circular sun symbol originate. After the largely bloodless reconquest ( Reconquista ) of the deserted area of the hands of the Moors and the subsequent Christian repopulation ( repoblación ) was the area in the hands of the Castilian crown to it in the mid- 12th century in various manors ( señorios ) was divided; in this period the basic rule of Barruecopardo arose. However, the place was - like many other small towns in Spain also - some privileges ( fueros ), the assurances regarding him a certain independence from the landlord. From 1195 until 1873 the place belonged to the Order of Santiago, and then the sword cross and the scallops in the city arms point still. End of the 13th century, the Portuguese King Dinis dominated at times large portions of the west of the province of Salamanca.

Attractions

• From a 13th- century castle ( castillo ), there are only small remnants.
• The parish church is a three-nave building, which was built on the site of an earlier building in neoclassical in the early 19th century; remarkable and unusual is the use of dressed stone (outside) and quarry stone material ( inside). In the shallow end, a choir manufactured only in 1944 altarpiece is in the Renaissance style. Other equipment items ( side altars, figures, pictures ) come from the 13th to the 18th century.
• The Ermita del Cristo de las Mercedes is about a kilometer outside the town. Through her crowned with a triangular pediment portico porch has a remote resemblance to an ancient Roman temple. In its immediate vicinity an ancient cemetery was discovered with grave stelae and sarcophagi.