Baños de Valdearados is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and town located in the

province of Burgos The Province of Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Álava, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, and Valladolid. ...

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Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, Spain. According to the 2004

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(

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), the municipality has a population of 424 inhabitants.

The town

The municipality located 16 km from

Aranda de Duero Aranda de Duero is a city and municipality, capital of the Ribera del Duero comarca, in the south of the province of Burgos, in Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of roughly 33,000 people and lies on the River Duero. The closest in ...

and 80 km from

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...

is made up of a single population center. It has 407 inhabitants (INE 2008). The town of Baños is 895 meters above sea level. The entire municipal area is surrounded by soft cornices that lead to moors 30 to 40 meters above the population. The highest points of the municipality range between 890 in Redondal and 925 in Rincón and Lo Tieso. The municipality waters the Bañuelos River, a tributary of the

Duero The Douro (, , ; es, Duero ; la, Durius) is the highest-flow river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province, central Spain, meanders south briefly then flows generally west through the north-west part of ...

. Baños limits to the south with the municipalities of Quemada, Villanueva de Gumiel and

; to the west with Tubilla del Lago and

Gumiel de Izán Gumiel de Izán (formerly Gumiel de Hizán) is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a Germ ...

; to the north with Valdeande and

Caleruega Caleruega is a small town and municipality in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain. It is part of the Province of Burgos. The town is a few miles south of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos. People from Caleruega *Saint Dominic ...

; and to the east with Hontoria de Valdearados. The active population of the municipality is dedicated above all to work in

and to the cultivation of the

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and

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. The name of "Baños" seems to refer to the existence of "hot springs" in the town. Thus in the

Roman Villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...

hot springs have been discovered whose water came from the so-called "Source of Health". However, other authors invite us to think that the place name derives from the Latin word "Vannos" which means wasteland.

History

Hermitage of Santa María Magdalena In the Census of Neighborhoods of the Crown of Castilla carried out in 15912 it was called Vaños, it belonged to the Partido de los Arauces, included in the province of

. The party had 876 neighboring bosses. Villa, then known as Arauzo de Valdearados and belonging to the Jurisdiction of Los Arauzos, of realengo, in the party of

, with Ordinary Mayor. In 1843 it belonged to the Aranda party and had 364 inhabitants.

Artistic heritage

Its entire municipal area is full of traces of history, but without a doubt this has left a clear trail in the Roman Villa of Santa Cruz, with mosaics of special value, discovered by chance in the month of November 1972 , about 300 m south before entering the town coming from the Aranda road. Other monuments include the , in a neoclassical style with a cover of Renaissance influences, from the 17th century, the Hermitage of Santo Cristo del Consuelo, with an Elizabethan Gothic façade, the Hermitage of San Roque from the 17th century and the Hermitage of Santa María Magdalena from the 16th century.

Fiestas

* Santa Águeda, on February 5, where women were formerly taken out by men to dance in the moonlight. * Marzas (Last day of February at 12 midnight). * Pilgrimage in honor of Santa María Magdalena (Saturday before Ascension Thursday). * Patron saint festivities in honor of the Virgin of the Assumption and San Roque (August 15 and 16). * Roman Festival in honor of the God Bacchus (weekend following the patron saint festivities in August). * Feast of the

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(September 14). * Los Quintos (December 31, although they also occur in summer).

Notable people

* Zacarías Martínez Núñez (Baños de Valdearados,

, 1864 -

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, 1933), illustrious

Augustinian monk Augustinians are members of Christian religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo. There are two distinct types of Augustinians in Catholic religious orders dating back to the 12th–1 ...

and biologist, and bishop in several Spanish dioceses. He became an Augustinian monk in 1881. He received a doctorate in natural-physical sciences. He was a student of

Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Med ...

, who, in 1907, prefaced his work Biological Studies. Professor at the Augustinian school of

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and in other centers of his order. In 1919 he was consecrated Bishop of

Huesca Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...

and in 1923 of

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. In 1927 he was finally promoted to archbishop of

, where he died. He has streets in his honor in

Sariñena Sariñena is a municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is located in the Monegros comarca, near the Sierra de Alcubierre range. The Baroque monastery of Nuestra Señora de las Fuentes is located in the municipal term. Villages ...

and Baños de Valdearados. * Deogracias Palacios del Río, (Baños de Valdearados,

1901 -

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1936) Augustinian Recollect priest, beatified in March 1999 by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

References

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