Cifuentes (Guadalajara)

Cifuentes is a municipality in the center of the Spanish province of Guadalajara in the autonomous community of Castile -La Mancha.

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the Comarcas Alcarria and Alto Tajo on the edge of the Meseta. The expansion of the Municipalities is 219 square kilometers, the fifth largest in the province of Guadalajara. The municipality comprises Cifuentes Villa de Cifuentes and ten other villages, form of which three local authorities. The management divides the municipality in Entidades de AMBITO territorial Inferior al Municipio ( EATIM ): with the names Gárgoles de Abajo, Gualda, Moranchel and the hamlets Carrascosa de Tajo, Gárgoles de Arriba, Huetos, oter, Ruguilla, Sotoca de Tajo and Val de San García.

Origin of the name

Cifuentes appears in the 13th century as a contraction of cien fuentes ( hundred sources), as a local name for the headwaters of the Río Cifuentes.

History

The origin of the Castilian Municipalities located in the Reconquista of the Taifa of Toledo in the late 11th century. In the 12th century the basin of the Río Cifuentes Cifuentes was conquered and established in the seat of the archbishop. Don Juan Manuel married in 1329 his cousin Blanca Núñez de Lara, thus acquiring the diocese and built a castle on a hill in the southeast of Municipalities, which are rich immediate Señorío de Cifuentes founded. The villages were referred to as Judíos, since a high proportion of Cristianos nuevos lived.

1431 Henry IV of Castile awarded the fief to Juan I. de Silva, a Castilian diplomat to the Holy See, so that the first Conde de Cifuentes was. At this the Count of Cifuentes, the Spanish crown was regularly the office of the Alcalde Mayor of Toledo. The fifth Conde de Cifunetes was Juan III. de Silva, a diplomat of Charles the Fifth likewise the Holy See. A descendant of this Cinfuentes (sin fuentes ) was Juan de Silva, who was on 21 April 1609 to his death on April 19, 1616 Governor of the Philippines.

The 13th Conde de Cifunetes, Fernando de Meneses Silva, 3rd Marques de Alconchel (* 1663 ) refused the Bourbons the following, which is why this could erode his palace, which he had erected in the Plaza Mayor.

In the 18th century, the city developed into a trading center for agriculture and livestock. End of the 20th century, the Trillo nuclear power plant was built nearby. 1994, the royal couple visited a school beginning.

Attractions

  • Castle built with a square base on behalf of the Señorío de Cifuentes in the 14th century
  • Built church El Salvador for the Bishopric, the end of the 13th century
  • Hospital and the Ermita del Remedio built near the church in the 15th century
  • Remains of a medieval city walls as the city gates
  • A number of chapels, churches and convents and elderly homes
  • At the foot of the castle arises from the Río Cifuentes, which flows into the Tagus, after he has traversed a portion of the cifontina Comarca.
  • Here the Camino de Santiago de la Lana goes past, a medieval trade route.

Festivals

  • The patron saint Santísimo Cristo de la Misericordia (Holy Christ of Mercy ) is celebrated on September 14.
  • To this time also a cattle drive takes place.

Born in the municipality of Cifuentes

  • Diego de Landa ( born November 12, 1524), Bishop of Yucatán and missionary
  • Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda ( born June 29, 1540), Spanish-Portuguese maid of honor and politician
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