La Solana

Cózar, 13240 ,Spain
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La Solana is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 15,340. It has a very arid climate. It is located in a zone of Spain that produces large quantities of Wine and Olive Oil. The language spoken is Castellano.La Solana appears, as many other manchego villages, thanks to the re-population carreid out in the 13th century, caused by the three Military Orders which received the territory that nowadays corresponds to the province of Ciudad Real: Santiago, Calatrava and San Juan. Therefore, this is not an ancient village "won against the moors" and not even one of the first to be founded in the first have of aforesaid century, since, there is a belief, confirmed in the local writings, which date 1283 as the beginning of the occupation of the village. "Las Relaciones Topográficas de Felipe II" of 1575 prove the existence of a tower which served as a fort to defense the people against the possible attacks of muslims. This tower was probably constructed by the Order of Santiago -religious order- whose knight commander from 1440 to 1477 was Diego de Villegas". It is logical to think that the tower which is described in the Books of Visitors of the Order of Santiago is the same tower which is mentioned in "Las Relaciones de Felipe II", where now lays the current tower of Santa Catalina Church.Las Descripciones del cardenal Lorenzana del año 1788 nos dicen que los primeros pobladores fueron pastores sorianos que acudían con sus rebaños estacionalmente y, atraídos por la fertilidad de las tierras de La Moheda y La Veguilla, colindantes con el núcleo histórico, mudaron sus casas a este lugar iniciando la población. En el año 1463, según la doctora Ángela Madrid Medina, se le concede el título de villa. En 1468 contaba con doscientos vecinos y, en 1575, 750 vecinos eran sus pobladores, con gran producción de vino, mayormente tinto, "afamado en los lugares comarcanos" a los que se exportaba. La vecina Membrilla, dicho año de 1575, contaba 1.000 vecinos y, sobre la base de las arrobas de los diezmos, producía menos vino que La Solana, destacando, en cambio, por los productos de las huertas situadas en la vega del río Azuer, de las que se abastecía La Solana. Es posible que ese buen vino de Membrilla que bebiera Miguel de Cervantes, y que luego aparecerá en la surtida bodega italiana de su Licenciado Vidriera, fuera vino de La Solana.

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