The 687 residents in Madoz's dictionary Curiosity · Aldearrubia, Las Villas, Salamanca Image of Aldearrubia, not of the place itself. In the mid-nineteenth century Pascual Madoz's Geographical-Statistical-Historical Dictionary counted 687 inhabitants in the town, more than it has today: the 2025 register records 518 households, testimony to the emptying of the Salamanca countryside. Photo: Victor (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Aldearrubia