Urueña is a municipality located in the
province of Valladolid
Valladolid () is a Provinces of Spain, province of northwest Spain, in the central part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Castile and León. It has a population of 520,716 people in a total of 225 munici ...
,
Castile and León
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It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
, Spain. According to the 2004
census
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(
INE
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), the municipality has a population of 213 inhabitants.
The streets and stone houses have been restored to those of a medieval town. It still retains much of the city walls with two gates and the castle. The parish church,
Santa María del Azogue , was built in gothic-renaissance styles.
It also has four museums. Outside the walled enclosure and within walking distance is the
Romanesque-style ''
Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciada'' (Hermitage of Our Lady of the Annunciation) and the ruins of an old monastery. Evidence of prehistoric inhabitants have been found in the region.
It is member of th
I.O.B.-International Organisation of Book Towns a network of villages in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated.
Gallery
Image:Urueña vista2 lou.jpg, view of urueña walls
Image:Vista de Urueña.JPG, view of urueña
Image:Urueña callereal2 lou.jpg, street
Image:Urueña arcovilla1 lou.jpg, urueña walls
Image:Urueña muralla2 lou.jpg, urueña walls
Image:Urueña castillo1 lou.jpg, Castle of urueña
Image:Fundación Joaquín Díaz - Panorámica. Ermita y muralla - Urueña (Valladolid).jpg, Hermitage and walls
Image:Urueña anunciada1 lou.jpg, Hermitage
Image:Iglesia de Santa María de Azogue.Urueña (Valladolid).JPG, Church of Saint Mary of Azogue
Image:Urueña museoetno2 lou.jpg, Joaquin Díaz Ethnographic Museum
See also
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Cuisine of the province of Valladolid
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References
Municipalities in the Province of Valladolid
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