Calatañazor

Calatañazor is a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 70 inhabitants. The municipality is named after the tiny fortified city on top of a hill. Also situated in the municipality are the hamlets Aldehuela and Abioncillo. Abioncillo used to be abandoned like many forsaken hamlets in Spain, but in the 1980s was turned around by a few dedicated teachers into an educational center. In the valley between Calatañazor and Abioncillo the 'Battle of Calatañazor' took place in the year 1002. The valley is still named 'La valle de la sangre' (the valley of blood). Almanzor, the ruler of Muslim Al-Andalus is by some historians said to have died in this battle. There is a statue of him in Calatañazor. A certain kind of juniper-tree, the Juniperus thurifera (Spanish juniper), grows in a juniper wood^[1] in the nature reserve El Sabinar de Calatañazor. Some of those trees are the biggest to be found on the whole of the Iberic peninsula. Further are to be found an underground river, the Abión, which comes above ground at the Fuentona de Muriel, a natural heritage site. The fuentona is visited very often, also by advanced cavedivers. The locals call this fuentona, which looks like a lake, El Ojo de la Mar (The eye of the sea).^[2] Also (above ground) a cave, 'La Cueva Maja', with 4000-year-old drawings are found in the vicinity of Abioncillo. Both in the center of Abioncillo and Calatañazor a many centuries old elm is to be found, once, in Celtiberic times an important symbol. The name Calatañazor comes from the Arab 'Qalat al-Nusur' which can either mean 'Castle of azure' or 'Castle of vultures'.^[3]

External links

• educational center in Abioncillo

Ruins of the former Castle of Calatañazor.

Church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo.

View of the medieval town of Calatañazor.

Typical street in Calatañazor.

Hermitage of la Soledad.

El Sabinar Park.

Church of San Juan Bautista.

Statue of Almanzor in Calatañazor, Spain

Municipalities in the province of Soria
30,000+	Soria
1,000+	Ágreda Almazán Arcos de Jalón Berlanga de Duero Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma Covaleda Duruelo de la Sierra Ólvega San Esteban de Gormaz San Leonardo de Yagüe Vinuesa
under 1,000	Abejar Adradas Alconaba Alcubilla de Avellaneda Alcubilla de las Peñas Aldealafuente Aldealices Aldealpozo Aldealseñor Aldehuela de Periáñez Alentisque Aliud Almajano Almaluez Almarza Almazul Almenar de Soria Alpanseque Arancón Arenillas Arévalo de la Sierra Ausejo de la Sierra Baraona Barca Barcones Bayubas de Abajo Bayubas de Arriba Beratón Blacos Bliecos Borjabad Borobia Buberos Buitrago Cabrejas del Campo Cabrejas del Pinar Calatañazor Caltojar Candilichera Carabantes Caracena Carrascosa de Abajo Carrascosa de la Sierra Casarejos Castilfrío de la Sierra Castillejo de Robledo Castilruiz Cañamaque Centenera de Andaluz Cerbón Cidones Cigudosa Cihuela Ciria Cirujales del Río Coscurita Cubilla Cubo de la Solana Cueva de Ágreda Deza Dévanos El Royo Escobosa de Almazán Espeja de San Marcelino Espejón Estepa de San Juan Frechilla de Almazán Fresno de Caracena Fuentearmegil Fuentecambrón Fuentecantos Fuentelmonge Fuentelsaz de Soria Fuentepinilla Fuentes de Magaña Fuentestrún Garray Golmayo Gormaz Gómara Herrera de Soria Hinojosa del Campo La Losilla La Póveda de Soria La Riba de Escalote Langa de Duero Las Aldehuelas Liceras Los Rábanos Los Villares de Soria Magaña Maján Matalebreras Matamala de Almazán Medinaceli Miño de Medinaceli Miño de San Esteban Molinos de Duero Momblona Monteagudo de las Vicarías Montejo de Tiermes Montenegro de Cameros Morón de Almazán Muriel Viejo Muriel de la Fuente Nafría de Ucero Narros Navaleno Nepas Nolay Noviercas Oncala Pinilla del Campo Portillo de Soria Pozalmuro Quintana Redonda Quintanas de Gormaz Quiñonería Rebollar Recuerda Rello Renieblas Retortillo de Soria Reznos Rioseco de Soria Rollamienta Salduero San Felices San Pedro Manrique Santa Cruz de Yanguas Santa María de Huerta Santa María de las Hoyas Serón de Nágima Soliedra Sotillo del Rincón Suellacabras Tajahuerce Tajueco Talveila Tardelcuende Taroda Tejado Torlengua Torreblacos Torrubia de Soria Trévago Ucero Vadillo Valdeavellano de Tera Valdegeña Valdelagua del Cerro Valdemaluque Valdenebro Valdeprado Valderrodilla Valtajeros Velamazán Velilla de la Sierra Velilla de los Ajos Viana de Duero Villaciervos Villanueva de Gormaz Villar del Ala Villar del Campo Villar del Río Villasayas Villaseca de Arciel Vizmanos Vozmediano Yanguas Yelo

Coordinates: 41°42′00″N 2°49′01″W / 41.700°N 2.817°W / 41.700; -2.817