Nofuentes

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Nofuentes
Locality
Country Spain
Autonomous communityCastilla y León
ProvinceBurgos
MunicipalityMerindad de Cuesta Urria
Population
 (2011)
144

Nofuentes is a locality and a minor local entity situated in the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, in Spain, region of Las Merindades, judicial party of Villarcayo, capital of Merindad de Cuesta Urria municipality.

Town Hall.

General data[]

In 2011 it hosted 144 villagers. It is situated 80 km to the north of the capital of the province, Burgos, in the left edge of Nela.

Communications[]

  • Road: National Highway N-629 between Trespaderne y Medina de Pomar.
  • Railway: Until its closing in 1985, Railway station to Santander-Mediterráneo.

Administrative situation[]

Its main mayor is José Pablo Quintanilla Rodriguez from Partido Popular.

History[]

Clarisas´ convent.

This villa belonged to the Merindad de Cuesta Urria in Castilla la Vieja party, one of the fourteen parties that formed the Burgos´ quartermaster during the period between 1785 and 1833, as it is shown in the Floriblanca census of 1787 with a royal jurisdiction. After the fall of the Ancien Régime, it is aggregated to the Merindad Cuesta-Urria´s constitutional town hall, in the Villarcayo´s party belonging to the region of Castilla la Vieja, being its capital.

Festivities and customs[]

Its local festivities are held the 15th of May, Saint Isidro Labrador festivity and the 29th of June, Saint Pedro and San Pablo de Tarso festivity

Parish[]

San Pedro y San Pablo Church.

Parochial catholic church of San Pedro and San Pablo in the Archpriesthood of Medina de Pomar, Burgos´ Archbishopric´s diocese. The next locations depend on this church: Cebolleros, Mijangos, Las Quintanillas Las Quintanillas, Urria (Burgos),Valdelacuesta, Villamagrín, Villapanillo, Villarán y Villavedeo y and the convent of mother Clarisas of Nuestra Señora de Rivas.

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