Cambarco_155A7646a

by Diana Raquel Sainz

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Cambarco_155A7646a

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Diana Raquel Sainz

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Photograph - Photography - Digital Color

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CAMBARCO, Li�bana, Spain
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Cambarco is a village in the municipality of Cabezon de Liebana, (Cantabria, Spain). This village is located at 520 meters above sea level, and 3.8 kilometers of the municipal capital, Cabezon de Liebana in the old Valdeaniezo. Immersed in a landscape of mountains beech, oak, but also oaks and scrub, Cambarco and Church of San Andres de Cambarco, located at the entrance of the village was owned by individuals gradually gave way over to monastery Santa Mar�a de Piasca. In the present cemetery of the town's ancient monastery of San Andres rose, disappeared today and that only endure the remains of the cover in the parish church, besides the rock Hermitage Cambarco.
In 2009 it had a population of 37 inhabitants (INE).. It is one of the towns that make up the "Valley Estrechu" or "strait" also "Valdeaniezo" Aniezo formed by the river on the west side of Pe�a Sagra.
Today it is a town that lives in the countryside and rural tourism, due to the existence of several rural tourist complex in the village.
In the late twelfth century, in the context of a crisis of the monarchy, became widespread, the inhabitants of these places, the predominance of local noble lineages, including Orej�n, Bedoya, Ceballos and Garc�a Duque, as attested Calf in Behetr�as 1352. This documentary source also reflects the influence on the villages of the valley donation exercised dominion of Li�bana, made by King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (1311-1350) to his son The Count Don Tello. Thus the independence of the ancestral of Aniezo, Stubborn, Cambarco, Pembes, Torices Perrozo and Don Tello and later his son, Juan Tellez occurs.

From the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, the lineage of the Mendoza, dukes of the Infantry from 1475, exercised his power in the area. This stately Control each year did not prevent the locals choose their rulers, except for residents of Piasca and Valderrod�es Valley (comprising Buyezo, Lamedo, Perrozo, San Andr�s and Torices), linked to the Benedictine monastery of Sahagun, whose Prior appointing ordinary mayor.

With the advent of the constitutional system, ending the feudal system, an independent council formed in the northern lands of the valley of Valdeprado. The first municipality that was instituted in 1822, was named Perrozo. In 1835, he took the name of its capital, Cabezon de Liebana. At first he joined the administrative area of Potes and later moved to San Vicente de la Barquera, where it remains.
Ermita Repuesta Cambarco.
Getting to the cave Shrine. This is the cave shrine of Cambarco (also in the town of Cabezon de Liebana). Dating from the late eighth and early ninth century. It is a small temple in the form of a Greek cross and dug into the rock. It is a construction drawing excavated strata. The walls are lined with stone. The plant has three apses with arches that separate them, arranged in a clover like shape. It is a Greek cross Byzantine style. It seems of late eighth or early ninth century. Quite a place to see!!!

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