El Barco de Ávila is a municipality located in the

province of Ávila Ávila () is a province of central-western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered on the south by the provinces of Toledo and Cáceres, on the west by Salamanca, on the north by Valladolid, an ...

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 th ...

, Spain. It forms part of the region of El Barco de Ávila - Piedrahíta and is located in the valley of Tormes river. Is the headboard of the natural region of Alto Tormes. In 2017 it has a population of 2436 population.

Place names and symbols

El Barco could take its name form a boat used to cross the river or, as different authors think, from different words of different languages: bar (in Hebrew house), from the Basque or meeting between villages, form the Celtic house...

Location

El Barco de Ávila is located at the southwest of the province of Avila, near of the frontier of the provinces of Salamanca and Caceres, being the headboard of the region between the valley of the Tormes river and Aravalles river, better known as Alto Tormes. This municipality is located on an altitude of 1004 msnm. It has a surface of 12,68 km². It limits with La Carrera, El Losar del Barco, San Lorenzo del Tormes and Navatejares.

Climate

El Barco de Ávila has a warm climate with a dry and warm summer according to the climatic classification of Köppen.

Main sights

*Castle (12th century, rebuilt in the 14th century) *''Casa del Reloj'' *Romanesque bridge *Hermitage of ''Santísimo Cristo del Caño'' *Hermitage of ''San Pedro de El Barco'' *12th century walls

References

Municipalities in the Province of Ávila {{Ávila-geo-stub

Place names and symbols

Location

Climate

Main sights

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