Idiosyncrasy de Santa Maria de las Hoyas

Idiosyncrasy of the town and its inhabitants
" Idiosyncrasy " is the own characteristics, temperament, character, etc., symbols and of an individual or a colectivity. In this case, those of the town of Santa Maria and those of its inhabitants... of today, and before... Idiosyncrasy of Santa Maria of the Holes Santa Maria of the Holes adjusts to the prototype of most of the towns that there are scattered by dry territories of Castile-Leon..., that is to say: Less than 1,000 inhabitants, all in population center, (not scattered like in other regions). An extension of the term that walking can cross of north to the south or this a the west, in two hours, with the located population center approx. in the center of the term. (Santa Maria has 45 kms. of surface). Characteristic of the towns of Castile it is the Earth operation in property regime small farm owner, this is: each neighbor is owner of the Earth which he works, that is here of dry land work, (cereals, alternating, and leaving a year of I leave fallow) Also, they are of individual property the small orchards and meadows that there are next to the town, surrounded of stone fences... And they are of collective property (of all the neighbors), the pine and the land uncultivated to seed, but appropriate for the sustenance and young of flocks of ewes... Another characteristic of the Castilian towns, is that they have a greater town, with all the services, to less than 15 kms. in this case he is San Leonardo de Yag5ue. The climate is continental: cold and dry in winter, but nonwarm in summer, because the altitude, (to 1,078 meters on the level of the sea), allows that Santa Maria can be considered a place ideal to spend the summer, since the children do of the town who reside outside. In this privileged enclave, bucólico landscape, having at sight distant horizons that everywhere are descried, leafy pine to less than ten minutes of the houses; it mounts under cover of thousand species of plant Santa María de las Hoyas Idiosyncrasy of the inhabitants Happening of the population Santa Maria has been losing population throughout the present century. In the census of year 1,900 there were 895 inhabitants In 1.930 716 In 1.960 589 In 1.973 285 In 1.996 208 adults... and some children... Despite these data, the evolution of the population has been positive during the century, if we consider births and deaths; reason why it is necessary to consider that the lost one of population must to the emigration. If we paid attention well to the numbers of above, we see that in the decade of years 60, it emigrated 2 / 5 (two fifth) of the population; that is to say, of each five inhabitants, two emigrated; thus the population descended from 589 inhabitants whom there are in the census of 1,960, to 285 inhabitants who are the census of 1.973. As we say, the gradual reduction of the population has been caused by the constant emigration of the young people to the industrialized zones of the North of Spain: to Elgóibar, Bilbao, Portugalete, etc. and to Catalonia, of special way to Barcelona, also to Madrid, and Soria, capital of the province... It happened, which in all them house there were some member that resided outside by reasons for work, studies, destiny, etc. without forgetting the young men who fulfilled the service far military... And when emigrants left Spain tantísimos towards the Argentina and to other countries of the World, also Santa Maria they marched some towards that great country. Of all the children of the town, who reside outside, no is lost the contact with the Earth of its origins... return for the celebration... where many have house with all type of service to make the stay pleasant; then although the town is small, is assorted of all food sort and other habitual products of consumption, since although it has some store, in the summer go every day tenderos from San Leonardo with fruit, fish, etc... The women The women of Santa Maria have worked in the field always on a par that the men... Only while they plowed the Earth to prepare it for the new sowing, they dedicated themselves to another work: to seed the small orchards near the town, (the water whereupon is watered, it removes from the wells that there are in them... are located in the lowest part of valley or divides more loss of the town... where now the chopos abound...; to see photos); also it was task of the women twice of preparing the kettle of the pigs to the day..., to go to the laundry, (that formerly distaba almost two kms...) soon did one near the last houses, towards the town of Wrists, with tile roof, door, windows... we go, that could be doing or heat cold, and in there did not feel so much... although there was another one next to the source... Also the women to gather and to milk the goats were in charge, " to give return to the grass " in the meadows, that the men harvested with sharpened scythe...; to jalbegar the house, to make bread, to go by firewood, water, to take care of the stew... The women of Santa Maria, when not yet chicks were sold, took care of with care the broody hens, because the ponedoras, were taken care of single... (they went out, they investigated the Earth, found gusanitos that apparently you liked much... and knew to return to the house of their master... although they lost of Vista the door...) Also the mothers were in charge of which the children, when leaving the school, had the food in the table, were clean, they did not lack to the rosary of the dusk in the church...; always watching after its good education with the example and with which another one zapatillazo... if when sending them to go by water with the earthenware pitcher, they became remolones... In time of weeding, of harvest, she beats, sowing, etc., the woman, helped the husband, because all knew that four hands make the double of work that two. The boys the school never needed as it happened in other regions of Spain by those years..., no matter how much its aid at some moment in the tasks of the field or house made lack... The school, was something like asylum, respected by all, just like the Mass of Sundays... For that reason, (because they have worked in the field continuously) the women of Santa Maria, have not dedicated time to make primorosas of ganchillo or embroidered workings... like in other regions... Some woman perhaps, but was not the norm... They reviewed the clothes, threw perfectísimas pieces to sheets... to the trousers, mended like anybody the socks, the stern anchors... All knew to rebuke the wool of the own ewes, to spin it, and to make with four perfect needles wool socks smooth... And with two needles precious and sheltered jerséis of varied drawings, for the husband and the children... to still " refajos " for them... because the cold in winter, was great and was necessary to be equipped well to take refuge of him... Also the women of Santa Maria know to make candies in the furnace cook the bread: doughnuts, cakes of chicharrones, oil, sobadillos... They know to make soap. And with his saving in everything, they turn sixteen real ones into a duro "... In preparing the slaughter, they do not equal them by the towns of the contour... The women, who before only Sundays played letters, in the doors of the houses, (if the time allowed it), or in the kitchen of which outside extensive, (arrived the winter), they began to play " the card game " all the afternoons... The men The men of Santa Maria, are like the prototype of the Castilian men: serious, good, reliable of his word, workers, respectful with the others, and of the Faith that taught to them when young, (although they practice more to have contented " the master " who by own conviction... They are security personnel of his property, the respect to themselves had; guardosos of its privacy, of its projects, of which they create its right...; they never saw that their parents the respect to their mothers needed... they do the same. When they speak with others, they do not have disadvantage in saying that in her house the master commands " ", who " will become what the master says " "... is understood: the wife... And they, in absence of the husband, when the demand an answer that concerns to the property, does not give it immediately although they have it in mind, but that they say: " to see what the master says when he comes "... And thus he is like before strangers to the family, he shows, who the opinion of the wife matters, who without consulting will not decide it on anything important. And the wife builds equal: although she is who governs the property, does not demonstrate it before anybody...