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City of Poveda de la Sierra.

POVEDA SAW .
HISTORY.
The oldest references Poveda de la Sierra refer to the Reconquest , when coming to a close the twelfth century these lands were Christianized by the Castilian King Alfonso VIII. Since then the population was part of the Common Ground Villa and Cuenca, governed by its charter .
In 1577 he acquired the privilege of villazgo or letter of municipal autonomy, dissociated from the jurisdiction of the council of Cuenca.
In 1591 amounted to 177 neighborhood residents ( householders ) and three clerics , already a considerable population . Their annals collect overnight Philip IV and his royal entourage in July 1642, when they went to Cuenca to Molina de Aragon. Although physically fits in the Serrania de Cuenca, Poveda is part of the province of Guadalajara from 1833 as a result of the new territorial and administrative division on thecountry .
Here in 1916 was born the great guitar soloist and composer Segundo Pastor ( Poveda de la Sierra, 1916 -Madrid , 1992). Another illustrious son was Tempered Pablo Arias , who was born around 1620 and became mayor of Seville .

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