Anaya
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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Anaya
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline= Plaza Mayor, Anaya.jpg
| caption = Anaya Main Square
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| image_flag = Bandera de Anaya.svg
| image_shield= Escudo de Anaya.svg
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Spain
| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community
| subdivision_name1 = Castile and León
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Segovia
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| area_total_km2 = 15.19
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| elevation_m = 889
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| timezone = CET
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Anaya is a municipality located in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 136 inhabitants.{{Cite web|url=http://www.guide-spain.com/Castille_and_Leon/Segovia/Anaya|title = Municipality Anaya}}
Geography
The village lies in the vicinity of the {{ill|Moros (river)|es|Río Moros|lt=river Moros}},{{Cite web|website=El Norte de Castilla|publisher=Grupo Vocento|url=https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/segovia/anaya-puente-ermita-20200706122225-nt.html|title= Anaya: Del puente a la ermita de leyenda |date=6 July 2020}} a tributary of the Eresma.
Folklore
"La Sierra Vieja" is a children festival celebrated in the third Thursday of Lent in the village, involving boys and girls going around the village with scapulars asking folks for money or eggs.{{Cite journal|page=21|url=https://www.dipsegovia.es/documents/710465/738137/ADESEGOVIA_22-03-15_PG021.PDF/87784076-cac7-3569-ceac-898e1b9a1e0b|journal=El Adelantado de Segovia|title=Una fiesta en Cuaresma: La Sierra Vieja|first=Honorio|last=Velasco|date=22 March 2015}}
A version of a ballad of the romancero vulgar, La infanticida, recorded in the village in 1983, features jews portraying devils.{{Cite book|title=El antisemitismo en España: la imagen del judío, 1812-2002|first=Gonzalo|last=Álvarez Chillida|author-link=Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida|year=2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQ6DtgqAaDQC&dq=%22anaya%22%20%22segovia%22&pg=PA67|page=67|publisher=Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia |isbn=84-95379-44-9|location=Madrid}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZV3ee2IKpOMC&dq=%22anaya%22%20%22segovia%22&pg=PA417|page=417|isbn=84-8427-115-3|location=Cuenca|publisher=Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha|title=JudÍos en la literatura española|chapter=Los judíos en la literatura tradicional española|first=José Manuel|last=Pedrosa|year=2001}}
References
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