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Walls of Ávila Populares

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8/8/2006 19:17

1492

Walls reconquest of Ávila built in this time.In the XI Don Raimundo century of Burgundy, son-in-law of Alfonso VI of wool coating it went the representative of the repopulation of the center of the peninsula, and in order to protect Toledo spring up the walled cities of flat-headed salamander, Ávila and segovia. More late the repopulation of the peninsula is been beginning to take more southwards by leaving to Ávila in a middle distance almost without |relevancia| in the time, although has voice and vote in the Castilian cutting edges.In the Late Middle Ages (s. XV and XVI) the city turns to be reborn thanks to the goings and comings of the cut. The city and the province prospered enormously and went the from birth place of numerous religious characters, writers and advisory spiritual as Santa Teresa of wild land and smoked.Castilian civil warsDuring the Castilian civil war it was to soothe of the partisans of the bearded male infant. Your town-council went one of the main organizers of the war of the communities and in it formed to him the joined first of the shareholders.as of the XVII century the city begins a long decadence and a depopulation that stopped it with scarcely 4.000 inhabiting.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muralla_de_%C3 %81vilaWalls. Photo carried out the 24 August 2002 for the author.User:Pelayo2

Avila

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8/8/2006 19:13

1296

Ávilo is a city Hispanize, in wool coating and lion, capital of the homonymous province. Put to 1.128 m of height, in a rocky promontory on the brink right of the Adaja river, affluent of the Douro, being the capital of more high province of Spain. Your municipal term wooden shoe 231.9 km² and the gentile with the one which it refers to your inhabitants are "natives of Avila".Ávilo of the gentlemen is a honorary title of the city. Other, it is " Ávila of the king ", and still other " Ávila of the loyal ".The city is characterized specially for having a medieval wall completes, Romanesque. Also are one of the cities with major number of churches (Romanesque and Gothic) in report to the number of your inhabitants.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3 %81vila

Church of El Salvador. Populares

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21/8/2007 16:43

920

Church of El Salvador standing out in the inside an image of Catherine female saint of ends of the XV. century the third ecclesiastic building of the location is the hermitage of the calvary

Hermitage of Our Lady of Valdehunco Villanueva of the field Populares

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21/8/2007 16:39

934

Hermitage of Our Lady of Valdehunco Villanueva of the fieldLocalization:Put in the extreme noreste of the province, in the region of earth of fields, finds to him this location, that belongs to the electoral area of Villalpando.Distance to the capital:74 kilometers.Surface( in Km2 ):40.Population:1.064 inhabitants

Padiernos Casa rural Populares

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21/8/2007 16:26

952

The C. Villa paternal is a traditional housing, with facade of stone and filled up typical of the area. The housing has two plant. In ground floor a wide gluttonous salon, meddles independent, two double rooms and a bath and, in upper floor, it has other salon of be, three double rooms and other bath. The location is excellent for excursións to Ávila capital, given your proximity.

Padiernos Populares

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21/8/2007 16:11

898

Your origin is remounted to the Iron Age, of whose period it dates a Celtic settling of |vetona| populationnorthwards of the municipal term, in the limit with those of Sanchorreja, finds to him the place known as " the children's game of the small castles ", that it was discovered in 1929 for the Claudio Sánchez Albornoz historian. Going down of the " children's game of the small castles " towards the west, in direction to the pasture land of Montefrío, we find a wide rocky area with crowd of fall |escavadas| in ://www.padiernos.net/ |http| stone

Villafranca of the saw Populares

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8/8/2006 19:07

1492

Villafranca of the saw, municipality of the Ávila province (Spain), put in the extreme southwest of the same, near to the province of flat-headed salamander and nailed in the flowing north of the saw that takes your name, the Villafranca saw. The distance to Ávila is of 50 km. and the access is through a deviation of the N-110. It has a denominate annex the bank, two nail ( the Serrota and the Chía port ), an extension of 39.8 kms. squares and a census of population of 176 inhabiting.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villafranca_de_la_SierraAuthor: C3PO

Peñalba de Ávila Populares

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8/8/2006 19:08

2020

Peñalba de Ávila. Municipality of the Ávila province (Spain), put to 1.073 meters of altitude, in the end of the central system in a landscape of soft hills and fields of cereals. be bounded with the municipalities of Mingorría, Cardeñosa and the Berlanas.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3 %B1alba_de_%C3 %81vila Author of the picture: Eugene Vega

Mingorría Populares

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8/8/2006 19:11

1503

Mingorría is a people ( municipality ) of the Ávila province (Spain), to 12 kilometers of the capital, well communiqué, near the Madrid -Hendaya railway line and the national highway 403, that unites Toledo with Valladolid. Has a nuclear of annexed population: Wild of the mills.The Mingorría |topónimo| keeps the mingorría, de mendi gorría |euskéricas| reminiscences of your foundation, as occur in as many cases of the Ávila province. Not too much |lejós| rises the hill of Gorría 1.715 metros and populations as Chamartín or Chaherrero show also this association. However the true origin of this place follows being a mystery and well could happen that the current settling out relatively recent, product of the repopulation of the plateau for members of an ancient Spanish tribe and Cantabrian in the age it intercedes.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingorr%C3 %ADaSource: Eugene Vega, author on the side of the article on Mingorría

Church of Santo Tomás of Villanueva, that shelters a paintings representing a story of the XVI centu Populares

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21/8/2007 16:46

1184

The more important building is the church of saint Thomas of Villanueva, highlighting your tower. In your inside it has special importance the main paintings representing a story, 1542, in which it is represented scenes of the passion, of the infancy of Christ and of the life of hog-killing season. In the gable end it appears a good scene of the Christ locking up.

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