Cogollos Vega
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Cogollos Vega is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain
. As of 2010, it has a population of 2068 inhabitants. It is Located in the northern part of the province, about 14 km from the provincial capital, Granada
. It borders the municipalities of Deifontes
, Iznalloz, Huétor Santillán
, Nívar
, Güevéjar
, Calicasas
and Albolote
.
and Visigoths, as well as Arabs. The Village of Cogollos Vega was assigned to the district of Vega with Alhendín
, Alfacar
, Víznar
and other population centres. It is mentioned by Ibn al-Khatib
. The records of their existence do not date before the fourteenth century. It was occupied by Moors
until they were expelled in 1572, and lay deserted until eight years later. Then arrived eighty settlers, mostly from the town of Jaen Huelma.
According to the Cadastre of Ensenada, in 1752, it had 259 residents.
The rest of its history is closely linked to that of Granada, given its proximity and its location halfway between Grenada and the foothills of the Natural Park of Sierra de Huétor, Part of the Baetic System. There are masses of oak, and magnificent scenery.
The baths date from about the twelfth century and are of the rural bath model from the Muslim period and, like many others in the province, have stood the test of time thanks to its solid structure. They have been occupied as a dwelling from its disuse in the sixteenth century. The tradition of public toilets, which since Roman times were a meeting point and an example of collective hygiene, did not fit the customs of the Christian conquerors. They appear as an old house, like many houses of the old town, that would go unnoticed if not for the large stone blocks that reinforce his corner and the sign of Arab Baths (12th - 14th century).
The doorway leads to a first rectangular room with massive brick vault barrel without skylights. It is the cold room or apodyterium
. It served as wardrobe and a room for greeting and farewell to clients. An arched opening in the centre of the wall accesses the second room, tepidarium
or warm room. Wider and taller than the apodyterium, in half-barrel vault cloister with twelve skylights with hexagonal lights that could have provided coloured lighting providing an ambience in this quiet zone and steam bath.
The third area is the hot room or caldarium
, a little wider than the previous one which has fourteen hexagonal skylights of the same type, very rare, which enhance the uniqueness of this bath.
The existence of these Arab baths went unnoticed, except for its inhabitants, until the late nineteenth century. Then the art historian and specialist in Spanish-Muslim Manuel Gomez Moreno made a plan on behalf of these baths until 1975 was exhibited at the Archaeological Museum. In November of that year he presented the plan to the local council. In 1987 the house (baths) was purchased by the City of Cogollos Vega consisting of the bath, 100 square meters, and a courtyard 79 meters, for a price of 4,500,000 pesetas in 2003.
Later, in January 1991, the baths were declared a historic-artistic monument, and in 1996 the County Council (with a budget of 1,900,000 pesetas), undertook works of demolition of the walls and ceilings, original non-blinded holes, signs and paving partially crushed, plaster walls, and cleaning decks. The cost estimated by the Department of Culture for the restoration amounted to 211,000 Euros initially, and between other work includes undoing some of the work undertaken by the council without any archaeological rigour.
An archaeological and ethnographic museum is planned in the future.
is built on the site of an ancient mosque. The tower has Mudejar
coffered ceilings
. Inside, there is a 18th century Baroque altarpiece and pictures of great artistic value, such as a work attributed to Alonso Cano, as well as other valuable ornaments and silverware.Impressed by the nobility and the brightness of the altarpiece in the chapel of the eighteenth century, a gift was received from an Aragon family, for which a portrait is preserved in the church. The sculptures that make up the church are all of the Granada school of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
It served as a watchtower in Moorish times and was used during the Civil War. The tower is at 1,160 meters above sea level and has magnificent views over the Vega of Granada, Sierra Arana, the Cubillas and Sierra Elvira.
It has been recently restored and has built a lookout.
During the Spanish Civil War, the term término de Cogollos Vega served the area between the south Nationalist and Republican north. The area of La Mata was the scene of one of the most significant battles in the province of Granada, establishing itself as one of the pockets of Republican resistance, favoured as it was by the geographic situation in the area. Testimony to these facts are the large number of trenches that remain today.
The peculiar characteristics of the cavity, a chasm of more than 180 m deep, is almost in its natural state and has the development of pockets that stretch over three miles (5 km).
Since 1969 the cave has been managed by a Board of the County that bears his name, whose governing board consists of civil and cultural authorities in the province. In addition, since 1991 there is a Advisory Committee for management involving the municipalities of Iznalloz, Deifontes and Cogollos Vega, along with the University of Granada
.
Spain
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. As of 2010, it has a population of 2068 inhabitants. It is Located in the northern part of the province, about 14 km from the provincial capital, Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
. It borders the municipalities of Deifontes
Deifontes
Deifontes is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2006 census , the city has a population of 2478 inhabitants....
, Iznalloz, Huétor Santillán
Huétor Santillán
Huétor Santillán is a municipality located in the province of Granada, southern Spain. Its territory is located between the Sierra Harana and the Sierra de la Alfaguara mountain ranges.The main attraction is the 16th century church of the Incarnation....
, Nívar
Nívar
Nívar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 681 inhabitants....
, Güevéjar
Güevéjar
Güevéjar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 2018 inhabitants....
, Calicasas
Calicasas
Calicasas is a city located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 568 inhabitants....
and Albolote
Albolote
Albolote is a city located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the city has a total population of 15,563 as of 2005....
.
History
There are traces which show there was settlement here during the Palaeolithic era. Remains have been found of RomansAncient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
and Visigoths, as well as Arabs. The Village of Cogollos Vega was assigned to the district of Vega with Alhendín
Alhendín
Alhendín is a city located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 5200 inhabitants....
, Alfacar
Alfacar
Alfacar is an historic town situated approximately 8 kilometres from the city of Granada, in the autonomous Spanish region of Andalucia. The town is situated on the edge of the Sierra de Huétor Natural Park and is located in a region of intensive olive production...
, Víznar
Víznar
Víznar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain, only a few miles from the city of Granada itself. According to the 2005 census , the town has a population of 789 inhabitants....
and other population centres. It is mentioned by Ibn al-Khatib
Ibn al-Khatib
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib was a poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician and politician from Emirate of Granada. Some of his poems decorate the walls of the Alhambra in Granada.He was born at Loja, near Granada...
. The records of their existence do not date before the fourteenth century. It was occupied by Moors
Moors
The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of the Maghreb region who are predominately of Berber and Arab descent. They came to conquer and rule the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. At that time they were Muslim, although earlier the people had followed...
until they were expelled in 1572, and lay deserted until eight years later. Then arrived eighty settlers, mostly from the town of Jaen Huelma.
According to the Cadastre of Ensenada, in 1752, it had 259 residents.
The rest of its history is closely linked to that of Granada, given its proximity and its location halfway between Grenada and the foothills of the Natural Park of Sierra de Huétor, Part of the Baetic System. There are masses of oak, and magnificent scenery.
Politics
Cogollos Vega results in the municipal elections held in May 2011 were:| Municipal Elections - Cogollos Vega (2011) |
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| Grupo Independiente de Cogollos Vega (GIC) | |
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| Unión Demócrata de Cogollos (UDC) | |
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| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | |
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Easter
- Several religious services are held.
- Good Friday, a procession of five images: the Virgin of Sorrows, the Crucified Christ of Nazareth (also known as Christ of the Gypsies and the Roma of Him), the Virgin "Girl" (traditionally carried by the younger ones) and the Holy Sepulchre.
- On Palm Sunday, there is a procession with palms and olive branches.
Cross Day (May 3)
- Organised at several intersections throughout the town. Typical, this day is called "oven"
San Antonio - Patron of the town (13 June)
- That week is organized as the Cultural Week with many events for both young and old. On the 13th San Antonio is brought out in procession through the main streets.
Festivals of the Blessed Sacrament in October
- Are held the first weekend in October, leaving Sunday procession Satísimo Sacramento.
Arab Baths - 12th Century
The Arab Baths are in the old part of town. For centuries it served as housing and consisted of three buildings, linked by arches and vaults with octagonal skylights. The type of parallel chambers may belong to the times of Taifas. The Arab baths of Cogollos Vega have been catalogued as a historic artistic monument of cultural interest, assuming the first step for restoration by the Ministry of Culture.The baths date from about the twelfth century and are of the rural bath model from the Muslim period and, like many others in the province, have stood the test of time thanks to its solid structure. They have been occupied as a dwelling from its disuse in the sixteenth century. The tradition of public toilets, which since Roman times were a meeting point and an example of collective hygiene, did not fit the customs of the Christian conquerors. They appear as an old house, like many houses of the old town, that would go unnoticed if not for the large stone blocks that reinforce his corner and the sign of Arab Baths (12th - 14th century).
The doorway leads to a first rectangular room with massive brick vault barrel without skylights. It is the cold room or apodyterium
Apodyterium
In ancient Rome, the apodyterium was the primary entry in the public baths, composed of a large changing room with cubicles or shelves where citizens could store clothing and other belongings while bathing....
. It served as wardrobe and a room for greeting and farewell to clients. An arched opening in the centre of the wall accesses the second room, tepidarium
Tepidarium
The tepidarium was the warm bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system.The specialty of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor.There is an interesting example at Pompeii; this...
or warm room. Wider and taller than the apodyterium, in half-barrel vault cloister with twelve skylights with hexagonal lights that could have provided coloured lighting providing an ambience in this quiet zone and steam bath.
The third area is the hot room or caldarium
Caldarium
right|thumb|230px|Caldarium from the Roman Baths at [[Bath, England]]. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor....
, a little wider than the previous one which has fourteen hexagonal skylights of the same type, very rare, which enhance the uniqueness of this bath.
The existence of these Arab baths went unnoticed, except for its inhabitants, until the late nineteenth century. Then the art historian and specialist in Spanish-Muslim Manuel Gomez Moreno made a plan on behalf of these baths until 1975 was exhibited at the Archaeological Museum. In November of that year he presented the plan to the local council. In 1987 the house (baths) was purchased by the City of Cogollos Vega consisting of the bath, 100 square meters, and a courtyard 79 meters, for a price of 4,500,000 pesetas in 2003.
Later, in January 1991, the baths were declared a historic-artistic monument, and in 1996 the County Council (with a budget of 1,900,000 pesetas), undertook works of demolition of the walls and ceilings, original non-blinded holes, signs and paving partially crushed, plaster walls, and cleaning decks. The cost estimated by the Department of Culture for the restoration amounted to 211,000 Euros initially, and between other work includes undoing some of the work undertaken by the council without any archaeological rigour.
An archaeological and ethnographic museum is planned in the future.
Church of the Annunciation - 16th Century
The Church of the AnnunciationAnnunciation
The Annunciation, also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to Virgin Mary, that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus the Son of God. Gabriel told Mary to name her...
is built on the site of an ancient mosque. The tower has Mudejar
Mudéjar
Mudéjar is the name given to individual Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Iberia after the Christian Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity...
coffered ceilings
Coffer
A coffer in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault...
. Inside, there is a 18th century Baroque altarpiece and pictures of great artistic value, such as a work attributed to Alonso Cano, as well as other valuable ornaments and silverware.Impressed by the nobility and the brightness of the altarpiece in the chapel of the eighteenth century, a gift was received from an Aragon family, for which a portrait is preserved in the church. The sculptures that make up the church are all of the Granada school of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Arab Watchtower
The watchtower is constructed of masonry with large boulders interspersed. Also known as "the Tower", it is circular and cylindrical. There is a brick arch. Except the central slice, all else is of stone. A window would light over the single entry to the building and would be a channel of communication with the valley. In the north there is a window with the damaged edges and a hole in the bottom.It served as a watchtower in Moorish times and was used during the Civil War. The tower is at 1,160 meters above sea level and has magnificent views over the Vega of Granada, Sierra Arana, the Cubillas and Sierra Elvira.
It has been recently restored and has built a lookout.
Penon de la Mata
The Penon de la Mata is 1663m in height. In its pit lies the archaeological remains of Neolithic settlements.During the Spanish Civil War, the term término de Cogollos Vega served the area between the south Nationalist and Republican north. The area of La Mata was the scene of one of the most significant battles in the province of Granada, establishing itself as one of the pockets of Republican resistance, favoured as it was by the geographic situation in the area. Testimony to these facts are the large number of trenches that remain today.
Water Cave
La Cueva del Agua is situated on the slopes of the peak in the Ass Cabezo Sierra Arana. Currently, access is via two forest roads, from Vega, and from "Sotillo" Iznalloz.The peculiar characteristics of the cavity, a chasm of more than 180 m deep, is almost in its natural state and has the development of pockets that stretch over three miles (5 km).
Since 1969 the cave has been managed by a Board of the County that bears his name, whose governing board consists of civil and cultural authorities in the province. In addition, since 1991 there is a Advisory Committee for management involving the municipalities of Iznalloz, Deifontes and Cogollos Vega, along with the University of Granada
University of Granada
The University of Granada is a public university located in Granada, Spain that enrolls approximately 80,000 students. The university also has campuses in Ceuta and Melilla. Every year, over 2,000 European students enroll in the UGR through the Erasmus Programme, making it the most popular...
.