Barromán is a
municipality located in the
province of Ávila,
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 2023
census (
INE), the municipality had a population of 176 inhabitants.
Geography
The rivers are the
Zapardiel River es">:es:Río_Zapardiel.html" ;"title="nowiki/>:es:Río_Zapardiel">es/small>, a tributary of the Douro (Duero) and Valtodano River, Valtodano [:es:Río_Valtodano, es], a tributary of the Zapardiel. Camilo José Cela, in his book ''Jews, Moors and Christians'' , narrates a trip he made through the lands of Segovia and Ávila, between 1946 and 1952. One of the places he passed through was Barromán.
According to popular tradition, the place name is a contraction of the word "Lugar de Román" in old Castilian. It was incorporated into Castile and repopulated by Castilian settlers in the 11th century , with no known settlement prior to the reconquest, although remains of Roman buildings have been found in two nearby municipalities (Palacios de Goda and Bercial de Zapardiel) that probably continued to be used in Visigothic times and were finally abandoned after the Islamic invasion.
Heritage
Church of the Assumption, in
Mudejar style (apse-tower) from the 12th or 13th centuries, possibly the remains of a castle or a watchtower, and main nave from the 16th century. The entire church is built on a gentle hill or mound from which it dominates almost the entire town.
Population
References
Municipalities in the Province of Ávila
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