Reinosa is a municipality in
Cantabria
Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east ...
, Spain. , it has 10,307 inhabitants. The municipality, one of the smallest by land area in Cantabria, is notable for being one of the nearest towns to the headwaters of the
Ebro
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River. It is surrounded by the municipality of
Campoo de Enmedio
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and was created a city by
King Alfonso XIII in 1927, being one of only three urban centres in Cantabria with that honour, the others being
Santander and
Torrelavega.
History
The first documents mentioning the town date back to the year 1000, when it was divided into four
solars by
Sancho García, the Count of Castile. By 1404, it was emerging as the main town of the region and was organised into seven
Hermandades, military units aimed at retaining law and order. The procurators of these brotherhoods met once a month with the
Corregidor to organise the town's affairs.
In 1497,
Prince John, son of
Queen Isabella I of Castile and
King Ferdinand II of Aragon met his affianced wife
Margaret of Austria here, the meeting or marriage ceremony probably taking place in La Casa de las Princesas.
In 1517
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was passing through the town when he was taken ill. He stayed for nine days at the Convento de San Francisco while he recovered. The convent was being built at the time, and a hundred years later had thirty friars while the town had five hundred inhabitants. In the eighteenth century, under the
Bourbons, a new highway and a bridge over the
River Ebro
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were built. These works contributed to an economic boom in the region and the town becomes a bustling and prosperous place, on one of the main routes to the port of Santander. In 1927 it received its charter as a city from
King Alfonso XII
Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo; 28 November 185725 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador or the Peacemaker, was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885 ...
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Geography
Reinosa is the largest town in this area of Cantabria and is on the main railway line and located close to the A67 motorway. The town contains a number of hotels and restaurants, and
Montesclaros High School is located here. The source of the
River Ebro
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is in the village of
Fontibre where a stream emerges from the ground from the town; a large artificial lake
Embalse del Ebro was created in the Franco era by damming the river just below Reinosa.
This is one of the largest reservoirs in northern Spain and is mainly filled in spring as a result of the melting of the winter snow in the mountains. The lake is the uppermost of many reservoirs on the Ebro.
Twin towns
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Deltebre, Spain, located at the mouth of the Ebro River.
References
External links
Official website- Cantabria 102 Municipios
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Municipalities in Cantabria