El Puente del Arzobispo
El Puente del Arzobispo | |
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  El Puente del Arzobispo Location in Spain  El Puente del Arzobispo El Puente del Arzobispo (Castilla-La Mancha) | |
| Coordinates: 39°48′N 5°10′W / 39.800°N 5.167°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous community | Castilla–La Mancha |
| Province | Toledo |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.98 km2 (0.38 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 320 m (1,050 ft) |
| Population (2025-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 1,143 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
El Puente del Arzobispo is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha.[2] The municipality spans across a total area of 0.98 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 1,225.[2] Together with neighbouring Talavera de la Reina, El Puente del Arzobispo was a producing centre of Maiolica pottery in Early-Modern Spain.[3]
History
Initiated towards 1380 or 1383 under the oversight of Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Tenorio, the bridge over the Tagus was already built by 1388.[4][5] Housing developed in the bridge's vicinity.[6] The archbishop granted rights for the collection of the tithe and the bridge toll to the newly-born town, that otherwise also prospered thanks to the construction of gristmills.[7]
Over the course of the 15th century and up until the 1492 expulsion, Villafranca de la Puente del Arzobispo (later El Puente del Arzobispo) hosted a small Jewish community.[8] Some of the forcibly exiled Jews (who had moved to Portugal) soon returned as conversos.[9] In 1495 the local synagogue and adjoining communal property were confirmed by the Crown as a grant to Pedro Sánchez de Valdemoro, who had earlier received them from Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza.[10]
References
- Citations
- ^ National Statistics Institute (13 December 2025). "Municipal Register of Spain of 2025".
- ^ a b "Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales". Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ García Iñañez et al. 2009, pp. 279–280.
- ^ Sánchez Rey 1983, pp. 912–913.
- ^ Viñuales Ferreiro 2001, p. 359.
- ^ Viñuales Ferreiro 2001, pp. 359–360.
- ^ Viñuales Ferreiro 2001, p. 360.
- ^ Viñuales Ferreiro 2001, pp. 360–366.
- ^ Viñuales Ferreiro 2001, pp. 371–376.
- ^ Beinart 2001, p. 87.
- Bibliography
- Beinart, Haim (2001). The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Vol. 1. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press.
- García Iñañez, J; Buxeda i Garrigós, J.; Speakman, R.J.; Glascock, M.D. (2009). "Archaeometric characterization of Renaissance tin lead glazed pottery from Talavera de la Reina, Puente del Arzobispo and Seville (Spain)" (PDF). Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Archaeometry.
- Sánchez Rey, Agustín (1983). "El puente del Arzobispo Tenorio cumple seiscientos años" (PDF). Revista de Obras Públicas. 130 (3220): 911–922. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
- Viñuales Ferreiro, Gonzalo (2001). "Judíos y conversos de El Puente del Arzobispo (Toledo) en la Edad Media". Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval (14). Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. doi:10.5944/etfiii.14.2001.3671.
