Novés is a municipality located in the

province of Toledo Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, and Ávila. Its capital is the city of Toledo. ...

, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

(

INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (disambiguation) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (disambiguation) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...

), the municipality has a population of 1911 inhabitants. In his autobiographical trilogy

The Forging of a Rebel The Forging of a Rebel is an Autobiography, autobiographical trilogy of books written by the Spanish author, broadcaster and journalist Arturo Barea. They were first published during the author's exile in the United Kingdom after the Spanish Civil ...

, the Spanish writer Arturo Barea sets one chapter "The Lost Village" in Novés, using it as a microcosm of the social and political tensions building up to the outbreak of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

Notable people

* Francisca de los Apóstoles (born between 1539 and 1541)

References

Municipalities in the Province of Toledo {{CastileLaMancha-geo-stub