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La Aldehuela (Aldehuela means small ville in spanish) is a municipality of Spain in the province of Ávila, at the Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon. It has a 17.04 km² area, a population of 233 inhabitants (2005) and a density of 13.91 people/km².

His mayor is José Hernandez Lazaro, who pertains to the People's Party (PP). The corporation is formed by five councilmen of this party and one of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Services

  • Extension the Colegio Rural Agrupado (Joint Rural School) El Calvitero.
  • In 1998 opened a Pharmacy.

Population

La Aldehuela had 237 inhabitants according to the census elaborated by the Spanish National Institute of Stadistics (INE) in 2004. 117 of them were men and 120 women.

Demographic evolution of La Aldehuela from 1991 to 2005

  • 1991: 309.
  • 1996: 291.
  • 2001: 256.
  • 2004: 237.
  • 2005: 233.

La Aldehuela has 5 villages:

Sights of Las Navas, at La Aldehuela village, in Ávila (Spain)

Geography

The municipality is to 70 kilometers of Ávila by the N-110 that in its kilometer 319.5 divides the main body of population. La Aldehuela extends fitted in a fertile and narrow valley furrowed by the Caballeruelos river of the northeast to southwest. The valley is delimited by the mountain range of Piedrahíta to the Southeastern and cols near the Horcajada towards the northwest, giving passage from the valley of the Corneja to the valley of the Tormes. This circumstance does that its local allegiance varies generally according to the sources considering itself that it belongs to the region of the Valley of the Corneja, although to functional effects the Delegation of Ávila assigns the municipality to the macroregion of Barco-Piedrahi'ta (in any case most western of the province).

Nearest mountains are: Tayaruela (1,963 m.s), the Meadow, the Barranqueros, Level Head, the Bell, Caballera Rock and Los Rullos.

The Caballeruelos River is very irregular and every summer is almost dried is born in near the Mountain range of the Flagstone and in the Mountain range of Santiago. Streams and sources are their diverse affluents (Rebollar, Bullicio, Gargantilla...). The Caballeruelos finally ends the Tormes at the municipal term of Vallehondo after passing through Santa Maria de Los Caballeros and San Lorenzo de Tormes.

Co-ordinated of the different population centers

  • El Rehoyo: latitude 5º 23' 20"the west/ length 40º 25 ' 33" north.
  • Las Navas: latitude 5° 24' 5"the west/ length 40° 24 ' 14" north.
  • The Small village (main body): latitude 5° 24' 33"the west/ length 40° 24 ' 37" north.

Nature

The common fauna is made up of domesticated animals that live in the farms of the villagers (horses, cows, ewes, hens and pigs), as well as of wild animals like the wild boars, foxes, bats and jinetas. The most common birds are sparrows, finches, milanos, storks, eagles, sleets. As far as the amphibians they are common frogs, salamanders, toads and snakes, lizards and small lizards of different type. Finally we have to say La Aldehuela has a great variety of insects and invertebrates exists.

The flora of La Aldehuela is rich and is varied or in pedanías located in slopes of the valley or the level one. The most common trees are walnuts, willows, oaks, holly, oaks or brown. The more common shrubs and grass are magaleños brooms, romero, hawthorns, agatunas, guardalobo, oregano and ortigas meñas. As common cultures honor fruit trees, cereals and vegetables.

Transports and communications

La Aldehuela has a bus stop of two daily lines of bus to Madrid, in the route that the capital with Béjar or Plasencia, both managed by CEVESA. Monday to Saturdays leave 3 buses from La Aldehuela and return 4 from Madrid. The municipality also has a bus service at demand managed by the same company that unites all his pedanías with Boat of Ávila.

The Small village has regular cover of movable telephony in practically all its municipal term. Between 2007 and 2008 it is anticipated that pedanía of the Rehoyo receives service of connection to Internet of broadband via satellite, thanks to a project of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Promotion.

[to publish] Monuments 

   * Church: it has a single ship with a head of rectangular form narrower than the plant of the ship and cover with cupolas in the interior. There is an interesting púlpito with wrought steps. The altarpiece is of half-full of century XVIII, made by a retablista of the region. One is made up of a bank with reliefs in the lateral streets, body of three separated streets by columns, and attic, where it is the image of Asuncio'n.
   * Hermitage of Our Lady of the Grove: virgin who enjoys great devotion from the Average Age. She was remodelada at the end of century XVII or principles of the XVIII. It has a single ship and flat testero. It has a dressing room behind his altarpiece, to which it is acceded by one of the doors of the altarpiece. Still it has samples of miracles of the Virgin and votive offerings. Its greater altarpiece was made in 1762 by Miguel Martinez of the Quintana, one of the best painters of altarpieces of Salamanca by that time. One is made up of an only body and a great attic communicated with the dressing room of the Virgin through a bay that has an image of Our Lady of the stone Grove carved at the end of the Romanesque one. Also another wood stature of the Virgin exists of which it is of the same time. This stature is the one that removes in the procession. The hermitage is located approximately to average legua (about 5 kilometers) of the town in the direction of Piedrahíta, to the right of the N-110. According to the tradition taking to the virgin in a car of oxen towards Piedrahíta in one of the inclines the oxen burst and in that right place a small hermitage to border became of the highway that denominated the Santito.

[to publish] Celebrations 

   * Our Lady of Asuncio'n (8 of September): one commemorates the pattern of the town. The faithfuls arrive until the hermitage at horse, dressed generally in the typical suit. In the table banzos are auctioned [ 1 ].
   * Celebration of the Summer (June).
   * Celebration of the Children (Sunday of August).
   * Romería to clean the sources (the first Thursday of August), forced historically by the corregidor of the Duke of Dawn with the intention of which the town did not lose the right to the water ordered by the Duke.
  • Page of the Provincial Delegation of Ávila on the Small village
  • Aerial Vista of the zone
  • Photos and forum of the Small village
  • Information on the bus routes that pass by the Small village
  • Extension of the CRA the Calvitero in the Small village
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