Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, Spain. It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos (1000-1073).
Cañas | |
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 Church of the Assumption | |
  Cañas Location of Cañaswithin La Rioja  Cañas Cañas (Spain) | |
| Coordinates: 42°23′30″N 2°50′47″W / 42.39167°N 2.84639°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  La Rioja |
| Comarca | Nájera |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo (PP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.72 km2 (3.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 643 m (2,110 ft) |
| Population (2018) | |
• Total | 97 |
| Website | www |
The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170.[1] Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262.[2] The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322.[3] The community is still active today and retains fragments of its medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267 to 1279.[4]
Politics
edit| Term | Mayor | Political Party |
|---|---|---|
| 1979–1983 | Julián Allona Ugarte | UCD |
| 1983–1987 | Ricardo Cereceda Merino | AP |
| 1987–1991 | Roberto de Carta Sáenz | PSOE |
| 1991–1995 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 1995–1999 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 1999–2003 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 2003–2007 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 2007–2011 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 2011–2015 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
| 2015–2019 | Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo | PP |
| 2019–2023 | n/d | n/d |
| 2023– | n/d | n/d |
Notable people
edit- Dominic of Silos, saint in the Catholic Church.
Points of interest
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Parish church of the Assumption
editSaint Mary Hermitage
editNotes
edit- ^ Ghislain Baury, Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012
- ^ Ghislain Baury, "Sainteté, mémoire et lignage des abbesses cisterciennes de Castille au XIIIe s. La comtesse Urraca de Cañas (av. 1207-1262)", Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2011, vol. 41, n° 1, pp. 151-182, http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosmedievales/article/view/340/344.
- ^ Ghislain Baury, "Patronage et gestion des domaines chez les cisterciennes castillanes. Les fausses quittances de Cañas (1298-1302)", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 59, fasc. 3-4 (2008), págs. 237-252.
- ^ Ghislain Baury, "Une bibliothèque médiévale de moniales cisterciennes en Castille. Cañas et les membra disjecta de son missel", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 61, fasc. 2-4 (2010), págs. 141-183.
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