Anaya is a municipality located in the

province of Segovia Segovia () is a province of central/northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the province of Burgos in the north, Soria in the northeast, Guadalajara in the east, Madrid in the south, ...

Castile and León Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...

, Spain. According to the 2004

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

( INE), the municipality had a population of 136 inhabitants.

Geography

The village lies in the vicinity of the , a tributary of the Eresma.

Folklore

"La Sierra Vieja" is a children festival celebrated in the third Thursday of

Lent Lent (, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christianity, Christian religious moveable feast#Lent, observance in the liturgical year in preparation for Easter. It echoes the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring Temptation of Christ, t ...

in the village, involving boys and girls going around the village with scapulars asking folks for money or eggs. A version of a ballad of the ''

romancero A ''romancero'' is a collection of Spanish '' romances'', a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The ''romancero'' is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body of literature they borrow themes such as war, honour, aristocracy and her ...

vulgar'', ''La infanticida'', recorded in the village in 1983, features jews portraying devils.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Segovia {{Segovia-geo-stub