Nestares
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Nestares | |
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Location within La Rioja. | |
Coordinates: 42°16′10″N 2°37′09″W / 42.26944°N 2.61917°W | |
Country | Spain |
Autonomous community | La Rioja |
Comarca | Camero Nuevo |
Government | |
• Mayor | Francisco Javier Hurtado Justo (PSOE) |
Area | |
• Total | 21.61 km2 (8.34 sq mi) |
Elevation | 861 m (2,825 ft) |
Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 86 |
Demonym(s) | nestariego, ga |
Postal code | 26110 |
Website | Official website |
Nestares is a village in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 21.61 square kilometres (8.34 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 81 people.[2]
Places of interest
[edit]Church of St. Martin.
[edit]Church of St. Martin. Built in the early sixteenth century and enlarged in the XVIII, has a nave divided into three sections including a square head lower and narrower. The choir is placed on a ribbed tercelete and presents a seating for 14 seats, and an eighteenth-century rococo organ. The sacristy has a domed cover on scallops and has a crucifix inside classicist of the second quarter of the seventeenth century . The altarpiece presents images of San Pedro, San Martin and San Pablo . At the top stands a life-size Asunción.
Ermita de la Virgen de Manojar
[edit]It is situated on a hill near the village. The building is constructed in brick masonry and protected by a masonry wall facing the open door. It has a nave of three bays covered with groin vaults supported on arches perpiñanos Tuscan batteries.
Ermita de San Bartolomé
[edit]Located 2.5 km northwest of the town, accessed by the track which connects with the Sierra de Moncalvillo .
References
[edit]- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ "La Rioja: Población por municipios y sexo:Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero de 2011". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 28 May 2012.