Spain is rich in charming villages. Whether in the format of white or medieval towns. However, choosing which one is the most beautiful, the quietest or, simply, the best is an impossible task since that depends on the criteria and tastes of each one. What it is possible to quantify is which town in the entire Spanish geography is the smallest, both in terms of its number of inhabitants and its surface area. Y we know their names and location.
Illán de Vacas, the smallest by population density
According to the National Institute of Statistics, the smallest town in Spain is Illan de Vacasin Toledo, with only three inhabitants. Before they could say that there were four of them, but one of the neighbors had to go to Chile and the census decreased. Even if there are even more uninhabited districts in our geography, Illán de Vacas continues to win because it has its own town hall.
Though, beyond the calm environment that this can provide to its inhabitants and visitors, its mayor denounces that it is a whiting that bites its own tail. And it is that the City Council cannot carry out the most basic municipal procedures. so much for not having municipal secretary, such as not having access to the computer programs necessary to, for example, register new neighbors and move up the aforementioned INE list.
In the village you can find unpaved streets, a nameless square and a brick church with only one bell. However, expanding the ratio a little we can find interesting heritage in the area such as the castles of Villalba and Malpica del Tajo, the Mudejar church of the Asunción in Erustes, the Renaissance church of Domingo Pérez, the tower of Bayuela or the water mill of Villarejo de Montalban.
Emperor, the smallest by area
It may happen that, for you, being the smallest is marked more by the extension and the surface. In that case, the title would be Emperor, in Valencia. Have it only has 3 streets and 0.03 square kilometers of surface, although around 700 registered inhabitants live there, according to the INE. This makes it, in turn, the most densely populated. Ironies of life.
The town lives mainly from agriculture. Especially orange. On your side, Among its buildings, the hermitage of the Virgen del Rosario stands out. It is a simple construction with a single façade. The interior has a single nave and the ceiling is plafond, with a large oval in its center containing a painting of the Virgen del Rosario made in the 1920s. There is also a stately building in the neoclassical style and a square tower in its streets.
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