San Felices de los Gallegos
Template: Infobox church in Spain / Maintenance / Province of San Felices de los Gallegos is a North Spanish municipality ( municipio ) in the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile -Leon.
Location
San Felices de los Gallegos is located in the west of the province of Salamanca, near the border with Portugal at an altitude of about 670 meters above sea level. inst the south of the rocky landscape of the Natural Park Arribes del Duero. The provincial capital Salamanca is about 106 km ( driving distance ) in an easterly direction away; the historically and architecturally significant city of Ciudad Rodrigo is about 37 kilometers southeast.
Demographics
In the first half of the 20th century the place had 1500-1750 inhabitants. As a result of the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture, the population has since declined to the current low.
Economy
Agriculture ( crop production, viticulture and animal husbandry ) has traditionally played the largest role in the economy of the community. Revenue from tourism in the form of the rental of apartments ( casas rurales ) have been added in recent decades.
History
From the arrival of the Romans in the 2nd century BC settled here tribal groups of the Celtic tribe of Vettones; in the period of Roman rule, the area belonged to the province of Lusitania. After the largely bloodless reconquest ( Reconquista ) from the hands of the Moors and repopulated ( repoblación ) of the nearly deserted mountain region in the 11th and 12th centuries the area for centuries between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of León ( later the Kingdom of Castile ) was controversial. However, the Castilian kings handed over the territory in 1340 to the care of individual landowners ( señores ), which henceforth took over border security until the 15th century, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, it transferred the Dukes of Alba.
Attractions
- The standing on the outskirts keep ( torre de homenaje ) remembers - like the one in neighboring Sobradillo - at the time of border disputes with Portugal. It dates from the 14th/15th. century; from the once associated castle ( castillo ) the foundations are only recognizable. The former entrance to the tower is approximately three meters high and could only be reached by means of ladders; today's staircase is a later addition. The medieval building, with its battlements and four semi-circular and unroofed crowd watchtowers now serves as a kind of cultural center.
- The parish church (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción ) is a building of the 13th century, however, few of the original elements. The late Romanesque Archivolts portal on the south side is framed by a late Gothic Alfiz keel with a curved bow. The bell tower on the west side was added in the 16th century; the choir flank tower on the south side seems to have arisen later. A fire in 1887, the complete interior of the three-nave church was destroyed and then partially replaced by objects from other churches.
- Opposite the church is a transverse -mounted gate tower with a bell storey whose portal leads into the main street of the village.
- The church of the Augustinian monastery can be visited on request.
- The top floor of the town hall ( ayuntamiento ) rests on the facade side on six circular pillars.
- The Museo del Cantero informed using exhibits and illustrations about the origin and processing of the pending around granite rock.
- Inaugurated in 2002, Museo del Aceite is located in an old oil mill and is dedicated to the various steps in the production of olive oil.
- An already badly damaged stone sculpture of a bull or boar Iberian ( Burro de San Antón ) was found near the present-day cemetery.
- Several hermit churches ( Ermita del Rosario, Ermita del Divino Cordero, Ermita de Jesús el Nazareno, Ermita de los Remedios ) are in the vicinity of the place. Prior to the Ermita del Divino Cordero with its atrium and a beautiful bell tower there is a small square with a stone cross.