Coto de Bornos. Hamlet

Located two kilometers from Bornos, a short distance from the reservoir of the same name.

A characteristic feature of the town is its striking geometric layout: a quarter circle with its vertex facing south, which resembles the experience of the town of Esquivel, designed by the architect Alejandro de la Sota.

Fleeing from orthogonality, the town presents a fan-shaped scheme, with concentric streets of circular layout, intersected by radial streets, which achieve the desired picturesque effect of closing the urban space.

The town facilities are located at the crossroads between the aforementioned north-south axis of symmetry, currently Almarda street, and the Coto de Bornos road that crosses the town from east to west following the same curved guideline.

In the center of these facilities, the church, with a basilica plan, is a clear example of the historicist references of autarkic architecture.

The generous central nave is covered with lowered arches and transversal vaults. Rising above the rest of the town, the church tower, square in plan and whose bell tower has nine small openings per side, is an immediately recognizable urban landmark, and whose abstraction contrasts with the figurative aspirations of the main building.

With the church as the center, the town presents the particularity of having three large open spaces aligned with each other and joined by a portico, in a perpendicular direction to the axis of symmetry defined by Almarda street: to the east of the church square, there is the school, whose courtyard can be seen from the portico, while to the west, the shopping and facilities center unfolds around a closed square, called the Crafts Square.

Various types of housing were projected, being especially interesting those that solve the chamfered corners in the encounters of the curved streets with the straight ones.