Madrigal de las Altas Torres
Madrigal de las Altas Torres (in English: Madrigal of the high towers) is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Ávila, autonomous community of Castile and León. Displaying a total area of 106.80 km 2. The municipality is located in the northernmost end of the province of Ávila, near the provinces of Salamanca and Valladolid.
Madrigal de las Altas Torres
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The toponym is recorded earliest in the middle ages as Matrigale and Madrigal, whilst the second part of the current placename is a late modern addition. Hitherto a hamlet of the land of Arévalo, Madrigal earned a fuero in 1017 (ratified in 1168), becoming closely linked to the affairs of the House of Trastámara in the late middle ages. The town was encircled by walls in the Middle Ages (following a near-circular outline). Today some parts of the walls are still preserved, most notably the southwestern part. Madrigal experienced a massive rural flight after the 1950s. The Junta of Castile and León declared the historical centre of the municipality as bien de interés cultural (conjunto histórico) in September 2020.
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Madrigal de las Altas Torres appears in the authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names as a place. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Madrigal de las Altas Torres as an inhabited place. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Ávila as the administrative unit of Madrigal de las Altas Torres.
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• Name — Madrigal de las Altas Torres • Type — Municipality • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Spain • Subdivision Type1 — Autonomous community • Subdivision Name1 — Castile and León • Subdivision Type2 — Province • Subdivision Name2 — Ávila • Area Total Km2 — 106.80 • Elevation M — 809
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Notable people
• Vasco de Quiroga (1477/1479 Madrigal de las Altas Torres (Ávila) - 1565 Quiroga (Michoacán, México) • Alonso Tostado (d. 1455) • Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504), Queen of Castile • Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín, prioress, was born here in 1543.
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- 1.Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales.
- 2.Coca, Verónica. Construcción con tierra, patrimonio y vivienda: Congreso de Arquitectura de Tierra en Cuenca de Campos 2013. Cátedra Juan de Villanueva. Universidad de Valladolid. 79–86. 2014. 978-84-617-0473-6.
- 3.Madrigal de las Altas Torres. Románico Digital. 277.
- 4.COPE. La Junta declara a Madrigal de las Altas Torres BIC en su conjunto histórico. 3 September 2020.
- 5.Ruhstaller spike of Hunting Book of Alfonso XI related place names (Ual Madrigal Madrigal in Toledo and Burgos).
- 6.https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=2858, INE
- 7.Teresa of Avila. The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2 (1578 - 1582): 1578-1582. ICS Publications. 410–. 23 September 2011. 978-0-935216-90-5.
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