Cañas, La Rioja
Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, Spain. It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos (1000-1073).
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Coordinates: 42°23′30″N 2°50′47″W | |
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Autonomous community | ![]() |
Comarca | Nájera |
Government | |
• Mayor | Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo (PP) |
Area | |
• Total | 9.72 km2 (3.75 sq mi) |
Elevation | 643 m (2,110 ft) |
Population (2018) | |
• Total | 97 |
Website | www |
The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170.[1] Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262.[2] The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322.[3] The community is still active today and retains fragments of it medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267–1279.[4]
Politics
Term | Name of Mayor | Political Party |
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1979–1983 | Julián Allona Ugarte | UCD |
1983–1987 | Ricardo Cereceda Merino | AP |
1987–1991 | Roberto de Carta Sáenz | PSOE |
1991–1995 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
1995–1999 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
1999–2003 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
2003–2007 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
2007–2011 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
2011–2015 | José Antonio Merino Hernáiz | PP |
2015–2019 | Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo | PP |
2019– | n/d | n/d |
Notable people
- Dominic of Silos, saint in the Catholic Church.
Points of interest
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Monastery of Santa María.
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Cloister of the Monastery of Cañas.
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Alabaster window, north chapel Monastery of Cañas.
Parish church of the Assumption
Saint Mary Hermitage
Notes
- Ghislain Baury, Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012
- Ghislain Baury, "Sainteté, mémoire et lignage des abbesses cisterciennes de Castille au XIIIe s. La comtesse Urraca de Cañas (av. 1207-1262)", Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2011, vol. 41, n° 1, pp. 151-182, http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosmedievales/article/view/340/344.
- Ghislain Baury, "Patronage et gestion des domaines chez les cisterciennes castillanes. Les fausses quittances de Cañas (1298-1302)", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 59, fasc. 3-4 (2008), págs. 237-252.
- Ghislain Baury, "Une bibliothèque médiévale de moniales cisterciennes en Castille. Cañas et les membra disjecta de son missel", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 61, fasc. 2-4 (2010), págs. 141-183.
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