Entrena

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Entrena

General Information
Autonomous community:	La Rioja
Country:	Spain
Postal code:	26375
Area code:	34 (Spain) + 941 (La Rioja)
Homepage:	www.entrena.org
Flag of Entrena

Politics
Mayor	Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez (PSOE)
Population
Population:	1.289 (2006)
Population density:	61,29/km²
Location

Geography
Area:	21,03 km²
Location:	42,23° N 2,32° W
Altitude	559 m

Entrena

Entrena is a municipality of La Rioja,(Spain), located near the capital Logroño. Its population around the middle of 2006 was of 1,345 inhabitants and has 20.69 km's extension. The nucleus is placed to 558 m of altitude. The term limits with Navarrete and Lardero North; Albelda de Iregua East; Nalda, Sorzano and Sojuela South and Medrano West.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Monuments
4 Demography
5 Festivals
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Geography

The relief of the municipality is level, its altitude varies between the 500 and the 600 M.s. Most of the land are in a glacis, old channel of Iregua River. In the South zone are the first spurs of the Mountain range of Moncalvillo. The town is located in this zone, on the hill called El Conjuro.

[edit] History

The zone was populated by Romans, as it indicates the Roman town of La Dehesa, in addition to the road of Zaragoza-Briviesca that crossed the municipality.

Alfonso I of Asturias the Catholic in the middle of 8th century reconquer the villa to the Muslims.

In 1160 Sancho VI of Navarre repobló the villa.

In certain gifts of king Sancho Garcés IV of Navarre it appears with the latin name of Entidigone.

[edit] Monuments

St. Clare's Convent

St. Martin's Church.
St. Ann's Hermitage.
St. Clare's Convent.

[edit] Demography

When being located near to the capital, Entrena has gone increasing its population slowly, as compared with another one near localities, but walking away from the community's majority of towns, outermost, that they have lost population.