Pedro Muñoz
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| Country | Spain | ||
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| Autonomous community | Castile-La Mancha | ||
| Province | Ciudad Real | ||
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| Founded | 1284 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Ángel Exojo Sánchez-Cruzado (PP) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 101.3 km² (39.1 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 656 m (2,152 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 8,237 | ||
| - Density | 78.04/km² (202.1/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 13620 | ||
| Area code(s) | 34 (Spain) + 926 (Ciudad Real) | ||
| Website: www.pedro-munoz.com (Spanish) | |||
Pedro Muñoz is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 8,237 . This town and located in the northeast tip of the province. It is in the region of La Mancha, in the region of La Mancha High. It belongs to the commonwealth of Promancha. It is the municipality that their level of the population is smaller in its municipality due to the abandonment of the municipality in the year 1410, but in turn is one of the most industrialized municipalities at the regional level and national levels.
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[edit] Geography
Bounded on the north by El Toboso, on the west by Campo de Criptana, on the east by Mota del Cuervo and on the south by Socuéllamos and Tomelloso. It has a population of 7905 inhabitants. (INE 2006) or 9300 inhabitants. According to the municipal roll June 2007. It has an area of 101.3 km ² and is located 113 km from the provincial capital. Its density is 78.04 inhabitants / km ². Its surface is completely flat except that the municipality has with the highest level of altitude enclave to elect as its founding in 1284. It is a typical village in La Mancha concentrated population and housing low altitude consistent with the architecture of the region.
It is located in the southern part of the submeseta south of the Iberian peninsula, in the Guadiana river basin and the river Záncara well as a nature reserve in the form of complex lake.
This lake complex is set by seven gaps. La Vega or Laguna del pueblo lagoon is considered "green" Alcahozo, Manjavacas, Monte Chico are salt gaps and Retamar and Navalafuente are purely endorreic gaps.
[edit] History
In times preromans in the area near their vegas was a population Iberian about 100 people, which have been found several samples of his sculpture in the Cerro de La Nieve. Later this area was occupied by the Romans, from s. IV by the Visigoths, in the s. VIII by Muslims, and finally the new settlers arrivals of Castile. It was the Arch Deacon of Alcaraz, named Pedro Muñoz and belonging to the Order of Santiago, the one who longed to find in the vast plain Mancha an elevated and defensible from any razzia of often carried out by Muslim troops and causing major havoc among Christians. The village was founded in the year 1284, the year of the death of King Alfonso X the Wise of Castile, will happen on the throne his son Sancho IV Bravo. The Archbishop of Toledo had soliciado permission to found churches throughout this region, undertaking the expropriation of the land on which they pertained. Realizing that the site was inhabited, the villagers tried to leave the village to take it. The lawsuit filed Alcaraz Arcediano of the Archbishop of Toledo for having appropriated some land, populated by him earlier. Arcediano This was especially famous for the complicated lawsuit that gave him the reason, must recognize the Archbishop of Toledo that they belonged to the domain of Arcediano Alcaraz and waive them. Reason for which the villagers wanted to honor him by putting his name to this. In 1410 the village was abandoned by pests that azotaban the barren land of Castile wreaking havoc especially in areas with wetlands (which were drying in part by dividing a lake in three) villages around would share its territory.
It returned to repopulate already entered s. XVI and Spain already positioned as one of the major European powers and occupying his throne Emperor Charles I, it was necessary for him to leave Spain for resolving issues in their other possessions spread over Europe. He had to be his wife Dona Isabel which granted the privilege of Villa Pedro Muñoz on August 10, 1531. Six years earlier, in 1525 was when he had begun to repopulate the land for a family Cuenca, surnamed Butler. The father, John Butler, who was encouraged to go to the abandoned village remain convinced, in turn encouraged by what he had heard about the fertility of their lands. Later, the people gradually took life as beginning to come new repobladores they had heard that there was repoblando again place and John Butler would become the first mayor of the municipality for his leadership skills. They were neighbors in villages nearby, Socuéllamos, El Toboso, Campo de Criptana and Mota del Cuervo, which come with items of peasants to destroy the houses where they had settled these new residents, by that aroused the suspicion that they could be losing the limes, forests and rangelands that had been abandoned when the people in 1410.
It was since then and the s. XVII when built large mansions as "Paca's House-Palace ", and in 1700 the construction of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle summarizing the best of the best of the Renaissance and Baroque and reflect the splendor of the villa which enjoyed since the proclaimed as such.
Pedro Muñoz still had far to go to match that glory that came with the entrance of s. XX, in a first stage of the vine and industry linked to alcohol. A momentum it gave greater democracy and its enterprising citizens who created companies to meet market needs of the people and to provide jobs to its neighbors and those in the region who, in turn, help to maintain and grow this great municipality that is located in the heart of La Mancha and while it is expecting a fairly promising future.
[edit] Major events in Pedro Muñoz
- In 1284 was named Pedro Muñoz for the municipality and is recorded that year as the date of inception, but was populated 40 years ago.
- In 1324 Alfonso XI granted Privilege Villa, in the General Chapter held in Merida.
- In 1410 was abandoned by the municipality disease which caused the drying of the gaps.
- In 1525 will consolidate the place at the hands of John Butler after 115 years of neglect.
- In 1531 Mrs. Elizabeth (wife of Charles I of Spain) returns to grant Privilege Villa Pedro Muñoz.
- During the Carlist wars occurred in this village Manchego the signing of an agreement between the conflicting parties. In fact, one of its streets refers to the same (street Agreement), and is an event related in some specialized books in the contest. Therefore, one of the areas of your shield contains, under a sword and a baton of command Crusaders, two left hands (the rights claimed weapons) tight. The coat contained in this article contains two misprints: two crossed swords, rather than the baton of command, and the hands are the right (see the glass shield Genuine who chairs the stairs of City Hall).
- On August 12, 1994, about 4 pm a storm of mud and hail caused chaos in the town, it was its magnitude that several cypress centenary of local cemetery were uprooted falling on surrounding tombstones. The swimming pool was crowded with people (minutes before the thermometer marked more than 40 °C) where he lived scenes of panic, fortunately, nobody was injured and with enough shelter in the locker room of the same.
- Coincidentally, another August 12, but in 2007 an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale and with its epicenter in the municipality of Pedro Munoz hit most of the Iberian peninsula (could feel more than a dozen autonomous communities without causing damage estimable (only a portion of the Municipal Theater Almagro, over ninety miles away, sank), to be the exact spot of an earthquake nearly six miles deep.
[edit] Monuments and sites of interest
[edit] City Hall
City Hall is located in the Plaza de España, in the center of town. It has been remodeled several times to reach its current state, with a renewed appearance. It emphasizes the tower historicist style, s. XX, which retains sole remaining original Old Town Hall, built in early s. XX and neomudéjar aspect, being the existing building of 1946. Stresses its slenderness, in its cover dome and contains elements in eastern its forms curves with auctions in palomares and upper turret.
[edit] Church of St. Peter the Apostle
As they fled the inhabitants of the gaps looking drier lands and healthy, were the need to abandon the old Church of San Antonio. The pedroteños then decided that it was necessary to build a new, and the day on September 8, 1700, it became the foundation stone of the present church finishing works in 1722.
It is certainly the most representative architectural Pedro Muñoz. It is a graceful style that mixes with the Renaissance Baroque. The church has a Latin cross with low body townhouses in three of the corners of the tower and cruise square floor plan. Coinciding with the celebration of the third centenary of the start of work was to the rehabilitation and placement of the bell tower, which has contributed to enhancing its beauty.
[edit] Chapel of Our Lady of Los Angeles
Probably why was Ntra. Mrs. De los Angeles was to perpetuate the name of the only daughter of our refundador John Butler, which was born shortly after arriving in the town and died a few years after birth while still a child. When it started to build new houses in the second restocking, was present at the Cuesta de la Tahona and on the streets of the Campo. That was when the works started in the chapel of Santa Ana and of Ntra. Mrs. De los Angeles, the latter apparently took on a construición that were there before. It is a rustic chapel on the basis of little rock and a lot of land.
In 1769 began the new chapel, stopped the work and will resume again in 1771. Ended eight years later. He had extensive arcades and seating throughout. The Civil War was mostly destroyed and was returning to post-war rebuilding.
[edit] Manor Houses
[edit] Paca's House
Among the manor houses out of the Paca House, the manor house was built in 1760 (eighteenth century). It is with baroque facade blasonada, vain symmetrical grids forge typical inner courtyard and Spanish. It is designated as casa-palacio. The facade excels main front, built in red sandstone contrasts with the white walls. Inside is accessed through a hall door and security. The central courtyard manages the distribution of the rooms.
[edit] House of Granero
The House-Palace of the family Granero Heredia, known since its founding "The house of Graneros" built in postrimetrías of s. XVIII by D. Juan Jose Granero Heredia and Quiros Garces of Marcilla. Above the central balcony of artistic forging, is the shield of the family, which has a single field gules, five silver castles and a lion rampant in the center of gold, with the following motto or legend:
"Siendo entre tus hechos, aqueste señero a tus castillos Heredia Granero añade el león feroz que mataste que nan tu rey también amparaste".
"Being among your facts, this Sir to your castles Heredia Granero added that ferocious lion that you killed for your king also save him".
It takes cimera, but if a warrior armed with a sword and the cross of Saint James in the chest, bordura baroque and a border with eight bundles of arrows, the symbol of the Catholic Monarchs.
[edit] Fernandez Cuellar's House
It is a manor house of s. XVIII, with facade with coat of amrs, whose founder not have a history, it is believed that once belonged to Fernandez Cuellar, surname that existed in the town and later disappeared. He holds the arms of one field with a pine and a wolf lifted on their feet. Typically your typical Spanish courtyard, with main gate of rustic wood and artistic forge.
[edit] Torrecilla's House
It was built in the s. XVIII, is a manor house with front with coat of arms which was founded by a knight of the Order of Santiago del that there is no news. Above its main gate is a shield with the Cross of the Military Order of Santiago.
[edit] House of Menaut
It was built in the second half of s. XVIII with leftover materials of the Church of St. Peter and belonged to the family Menaut. On the facade there is a coat of arms in a very good state of preservation, like the rest of the house. In its interior there is a courtyard Manchego columnaty and paved.
[edit] Roman bridge
This is a Roman architectural three eyes located on the river Záncara linking other way also built by them. The bridge still linger in time but the road has been progressively destroyed by the work on crops nearby.
[edit] Bridge of San Miguel
Also on the river Záncara, this bridge beside the hermitage of San Miguel. Recently there have carried out major tasks of recovery and beautification of this environment with two "greenways" to both banks of the river.
[edit] The Vega Lake
It has an area of 34 hectares. Its wildlife is abundant, highlights ducks and limícolas, but there are more than 23 different species of waterfowl.
[edit] Archaeological Discoveries
Archaeological excavations carried out at Cerro de La Nieve, between 1984 and 1990, threw light on the first inhabitants of Pedro Munoz. Faced with the Vega or Laguna del Pueblo, and on a wide elevation amesetada of marl clay accumulated remnants of successive reconstructions of the Iberian of adobe buildings, creating a promontory tell which type of power archaeological varies among more than three meters in the top, and one meter in the area flatter. The settlement probably was part of a system of towns Iberian contemporaries at the time, being the closest in Las Mesas (Cuenca) and Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real).
In successive interventions made at the site have found numerous archaeological remains, including small-scale metal through a possible workshop copper smelter; Ceramics hand tradition Field Ballot boxes and other graffiti at around; Fíbulas bronze Greek pottery and numerous burials Iberians, a Roman and medieval number.
[edit] Famous People
- Juande Ramos, Tottenham Hotspur manager.
[edit] Bibliography
- Pedro Muñoz... Una Historia. Miguel Tirado Zarco. 1984. ISBN 84-505-0455-4
- Una banda, un pueblo y 120 años de historia. Historia de la Banda Municipal de Música. Juan Antonio Rejano. 2000
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