Los Huertos
SegoviaCastilla y León
Descriptive toponym of medieval Castilian, locative plural of Latin hortus ('garden, vegetable plot, enclosed cultivated space'). It designates the small Segovian hamlet settled on the irrigated meadows of the Eresma river, already documented in the 12th century as vegetable gardens dependent on the Segovia cathedral chapter.
Evolution of the name
- hortus Latin 1st centuries BC–4th
- Los Huertos medieval Castilian from the 12th century
Reflections, to the letter
Modest stop in the Eresma meadow. The Romanesque 13th-century parish church of San Martín, with 18th-century Baroque tower, preserves the original baptismal font. The traditional vegetable gardens around the village remain active with cultivation of vegetables, beans and potato. The Camino exit follows the Eresma meander towards Añe.
Glossary
- Descriptive toponym
- A place name describing a function or feature of the site (as opposed to anthroponyms, which commemorate a person). Viana = "place of the road"; Fromista = "of wheat"; Hornillos = "of the ovens".
- Eresma meadows
- Irrigated land system of the middle valley of the Eresma river, main southern tributary of the Adaja, traditionally irrigated with channels derived from the river bed since the Middle Ages. The meadows comprise some two thousand hectares between Segovia and Coca, historically dedicated to vegetables (beans, potato, onion) and to chicory —root crop introduced in the 19th century for roasting as a coffee substitute—.
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