Alarcia is a town of northern Spain, Autonomous Community of Castile and León, province of Burgos, Shire of Montes de Oca, sub-shire of Tirón-Rioja Burgalesa, in the municipality of Rábanos. It lies between the reservoir Úzquiza (west) and the peak of San Millan (2,131 m) in the Sierra de la Demanda (southeast).
Alarcia | |
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town | |
  Alarcia Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 42°18′N 3°17′W / 42.300°N 3.283°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Castile and León |
| Province |  Burgos |
| Comarca | Montes de Oca |
| Municipality | Rábanos |
| Area | |
• Total | 15 km2 (6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,177 m (3,862 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
• Total | 63 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Distances | 42 km to Burgos 25 km to Ezcaray 20 km to Belorado 5 km to Rábanos |
| Website | Alarcia's record card (province website) |
History
editOn arrival of the Romans in this area (1st Century AD), It belonged to the territory of Autrigones tribe.
The current shire of Montes de Oca, where is Halariza, Alariza or Alarcia, was repopulated mainly by Astur, Cantabri, Visigothic and Vascones (Basques) origins in the mid-ninth century, although remained border between the County of Castile with the Caliphate of Córdoba and its allies for at least a century. The shire was afterwards border between kingdom of Castile and the kingdom of Navarre till the mid-twelfth century. During this period the shire to which belonged change from one kingdom to another until finally passed to the kingdom of Castile after an award, in 1146.
It appears that the population has its origin in the high-medieval repopulation, but it is not named till 1068 when appears in the endowment document of the episcopal see of Oca that the first king of Castile, Sancho II granted to its Bishop, linking it to Abbey Foncea or Broncea.
It is named in the fuero (charter) of Cerezo, which was granted by Alfonso VII of León and Castile, 10 January 1146, to the town of Cerezo de Río Tirón.[1] Between the 134 villages belonged to the alfoz of Cerezo, appears Halariza next to Valmala and Sancta Crux del Valle (Urbión).
Named like Alarcia, its first written record, appears in the census of Floridablanca [2] (1785–1787).
Artistic and natural heritage
edit- Romanesque church
- Reservoir Úzquiza
- Sierra de la Demanda
Parish of San Bartolomé
editIs a Romance church dedicated to the La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, employee of the parish of Villasur de Herreros in the Arcipestrazgo of San Juan de Ortega, diocese of Burgos. The church was built between the late 10th century and the 13th century and reformed in the 15th century. Recently recovered (2001,...)[3] by the own diocese.
Culture
edit- Village festivals The weekend nearest San Bartholomew (24 of August).
Population change
editThe table below details the population since 1842.
| Population in Alarcia since 1842 | |||||||||
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| Year | 1842[a] | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Population | 46 | 48 | 57 | 60 | 48 | 82 | 64 | 64 | 63 |
| Source: INE[4] | |||||||||
Bibliography
edit- Sebastián de Miñano y Bedoya Diccionario geográfico-estadístico de España y Portugal Madrid, published by Pierart-Peralta, (1826–1829), 11 vols.
- Don Pascual Madoz Diccionario geográfico-estadístico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar, de 1846
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Llorente, Juan Antonio (1807). "Fueros de la villa de Cerezo en La Rioja, concedidos por don Alfonso VII de Castilla en 10 de enero de 1146". Noticias históricas de las tres provincias Vascongadas. Álava, Guipuzcoa y Vizcaya., pp. 108 a 111. Imprenta Real.
- ^ "Spanish census of population of Floridablanca (1785-1787)". I.N.E. (Spanish National Statistics Institute).
- ^ "Contest / Call for Churches' Restoration". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos. Archived from the original on 2008-12-05.
- ^ "Alarcia: Total Population". Spanish census of population (I.N.E.). Retrieved 2009-10-05.