Tarancón

Tarancón is a commune of the Province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castille it Manche, in Spain. It is located halfway between Cuenca and Madrid (approximately 80 km). The common one has 14.500 inhabitants and extends on a little more than 106 km ². Tarancón is the second city of many inhabitants for this province and is affirmed by its commercial importance.

Demography

Administration

Mayors

|- | align=right| June 2003 - || D. Raul Amores Pérez ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1999-2003 || D. Raul Amores Pérez ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1995-1999 || D. Antonio Domínguez Gallego ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1987-1995 || D. Manual Juan López García ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1985-1987 || D. Jose Miguel Ruíz Parra ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1983-1985 || D. Jose García Barrios
> D. Manuel Moya Olmedo its substitute,
faisant function during the 3 months of the transition ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1979-1983 || D. Antonio Domínguez Gallego ||align=" center" | || |-

Curiosities

Tarancón has an artistic inheritance of interest. It is necessary to note the church Nuestra Señora of Asunción , the church San Francisco , the sanctuary of the Vírgen de Riánsares , the palate of the Parada , the palate of the duke of Riánsares and some vaults of hermitages such as San Juan, San Isidro, San Roque and Santa Quiteria .

Particular demonstrations

The Holy Week of Tarancón is famous for the important demonstrations which there déroulent : processions and representations of Passion .

Famous people

Agustín Fernando Muñoz there Sánchez, husband morganatic of the queen Marie Christine of Bourbon at the 19th century, and by this skew, first duke of Riansares of the history.
Luisa Sigea, poetess, author of " Canto has Cintra"
Melchor Cano (1509 - 1560), important theologist of the School of Salamanque, which took part in the Concile of Thirty, author of the “Theological Places. ”
At the 20th century:

the family Rius, of great literary and artistic reputation, whose Shine Rius Azcoita and Luis Rius Zunón
the painter Emiliano Lozano
the archivist diocesan Dimas Pérez,
the researcher Felix Manuel Martínez Fronce,
the generals Domínguez, Castell and Villaescusa,
the professor Morcillo Rubio
Nino Bravo, singer (1944 - 1973)

External bonds

Web of the Holy Week with Tarancón
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