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Plaza of the white virgin or old plaza Vitoria Populares

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26/7/2006 23:51

2012

Vitoria -Gasteiz is the capital of the historical territory of Álava and of the Basque country.In 1181 the Navarresse king VI sancho the wise case the villa of new victory on the hill that occupied the primitive town of Gasteiz, by raising a walled area with the main purpose to serve as defensive fortification. In the year 1200 Vitoria -Gasteiz it incorporates to the corona of wool coating to the is taken for the forces of the Alfonso VIII king, that furnished with it your first Gothic widening in the lateral west. Alphonse X extended it in 1256 towards the east with new guild streets. It was important your Jewish assembly of Moors before the tidy expulsion for the Catholic kings, the Jewry, whose cemetery still keeps in form of park with a commemorative monument of your past. In the year 1431, the Juan II king of wool coating awards you the title of city.Between the historical happenings more |reseñables| is those of be stage of the Vitoria battle on 21th June 1813, in which the French forces, moving in withdrawal, were defeated for the duke of Wellington. With this battles practically put end to the War of Independence hispanizes. When to ends of July of the same year arrived the news to Vienna, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel ordered from Ludwig they go Beethoven the composition of a symphony on the occasion of this fact. It deals with of the op. 91 Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht Vitoria or Siegessymphonie |bei|. About this battle it can read to him commemoration of the Vitoria battle in your 150 anniversary ( of several authors, Vitoria, 1963 ).http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitoria

Cathedral of Santa María Populares

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26/7/2006 23:52

1504

The cathedral of Santa María, put in Vitoria-Gasteiz, of Gothic style, finds to him put in the more high part of the hill on she who was incoming to him the primitive city, based one's opinion on 1181 , with the name of victory, for the VI sancho king of Navarresse ( sancho the wise person ), and that it gave origin afterwards to the city actual.Es known also as " the old cathedral ".The cathedral has a plant of Latin cross, with three aisles with enlarge crossroads and head. In your inside it has four rectangular chapels and an apse aisle to the one that open to him other three polygonal chapels. Account, moreover, with a beautiful and fragile triforium and a portico of the XIV century it contains very interesting sculptures.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Santa_Mar%C3 %ADa

Salt mines of Añana Populares

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26/7/2006 23:59

1475

The Añana municipality is put to 30 km westwards of Vitoria, with 21.9 Km² and 195 inhabiting. The municipality is composed for two peoples, Atiega and salt mines of Añana, that it is your capital and main nucleus of population. Atiega forms a governed town-council for an administrative and endowed with certain joint internal autonomy, while that salt mines of Añana are administered directly for the municipality. Salt mines of Añana are famous for your exploitation of salt, today abandoned but in process of restoration.Salt mines of Añana( in Gesaltza Añana |euskera| and officially salt mines of Añana/Gesaltza -Añana ) is the main nucleus of population and capital of the Añana municipality.Salt mines of Añana possess sources of salt water that form the river dies, due to that the subterranean courses of water go through sediments of salt before working out to the surface and whose exploitation is well documented from the year 822. These saline together with those of puddle of the salt have been the more important thing of the whole Iberian Peninsula.Taking by --JMSE on 4th July 2003 ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3 %B1ana |http|

Panoramic of Elciego with the church of saint Andrew Populares

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26/7/2006 23:57

1662

Elciego( in Eltziego |euskera| ) is a municipality of the province of Álava, Basque country (Spain).The first testimony written on Elciego finds it in the year 1067, in the chartulary of saint will thousand of the outcrop. It deals with of an in form document of minutes of will of Aznar Díaz of Zieko, written in Latin of the time with a profoundly Christian spirit.Not it can speak of the Elciego history without keeping in mind the Laguardia law. As neither can value to him the law as somewhat given only to the inhabiting ancients of which it is at present the Laguardia villa. The law is dated on 25th May 1164 and it was awarded by Sancho VI the wise person. The Elciego village, just as as many other, saw to him benefited. Your inhabitants received privileges for belonging to that conflicting bordering fringe, often floged for the constant fights between the kingdom of Navarresse and the kingdom of wool coating. The law conceded facilities for all inhabitants of these bordering areas, the population increased and the defense of these earthes were secured.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elciego

Laguardia Populares

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26/7/2006 23:56

1602

Laguardia( in Biasteri |euskera| ) is a put municipality in the south of the province of Álava, to 64 km of the capital Vitoria, that belongs to the autonomous community of the Basque country. It is nailed in the region of the Rioja Alavesa.It is present in a porch and it is surrounded for a wall it gave the orders it raises the sancho king the fort of Navarresse. Still they keep to him five doors of access to the city. Your name is: Mercadal, butcher's shop, pagan, San Juan, and blessed Engracia. Your streets and corners keep a great medieval flavor. Your economy is based on the industry of the wine, with own and numerous manufacture wine vaults.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguardia

Llodio Ayuntamiento Populares

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26/7/2006 23:56

1716

Llodio( in Basque Laudio and officially Laudio/Llodio ) are a valley and municipality of the province of Álava, Basque country (Spain).The Llodio historical |orígenes| are not very clear. The more ancient ruins of the location are the Vitorica Roman bridge on the Nervión river, of the one which remains an arc. This bridge has is to depart of the wide road that it united the short lance plain with the Flaviobriga Roman port ( current -Urdiales children's game ).The archaeological remains they demonstrate a Roman presence come reinforced for the theories of the linguists they create that the name of the valley is an evolution of the Latin name Claudius or Claudianus, that has maneuvered with the step of the years by making room for the two names of the population, the Basque, Laudio, that it is more like the Latin original; and the romance that it is a form more maneuvered and less recognizable of the same thing.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llodio

Salvatierra( in Agurain Torre Santa |euskera| María Populares

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26/7/2006 23:55

1544

Salvatierra( in Agurain and officially Salvatierra/Agurain |euskera| ) is a municipality of the province of Álava, Basque country (Spain).Chatter medieval walled with three conceal main: Major: it is the sugar mill and she who keeps the buildings of artistic interest major. It has always received this names and divided to him in three parishes, of Sta. María, of the halfback and of S. Juan,. Butcher's shop: this names already it used in the s. XVI for finding in it the butcher's shop of the villa. Zapatari: name that it has recently graduated as forms officer and that refers to the guild of the shoe-makers. Church of hog-killing season (s. XIII), at present file city policeman. Church, strength of San Juan Bautista ( s. XV, XVI ) of straight head located on other carried out previous factory between the XIII and XIV centuries. In your inside it finds to him a paintings representing a story of the second the XVI third with canvases of Pedro of Obrel, of Flemish formation. Church, strength of Santa María ( s. XV, XVI ) that was built on other previous. In your inside we find a paintings representing a story of 1.530 made by Lope of Larrea. Also stands out the below plateresque chorus with the Carlos I. Convento shield of the Clarist mothers (1.611), in your inside finds to him the chapel of saint Pedro. Ancient hospital of pilgrims of saint Lazarus and the magdalen. Already in 1.487 mentions to him your existencia. 1.839 was sold for the town hall to a private personal. House of the widows (s. XIV), civil more ancient building than it saved oneself of the great fire that wasted the almost totality of the villa in 1.564.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatierra_%28 %C3 %81lava%29

Saint will thousand ( in Donemiliaga |euskera| Populares

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26/7/2006 23:54

1325

Saint will thousand ( in Donemiliaga |euskera| and officially saint will thousand/Donemiliaga ) is a rural municipality of the Álava province (Basque country) (Spain). Account with an extension of 89.8 km² and a population of 686 inhabiting (2004). It situates oneself in the |nororiental| part of Álava in the agricultural evenness known as short lance plain and of the Salvatierra group.The municipality is composed for 15 villages of size child, that although grouped administratively in a common municipality, constitute in turn town-councils, which gives you certain administrative autonomy in topics as the step of the common earthes of each town-council or village.In the ward of ward, belonging to Narvaja finds to him the Cistercian monastery of saint Bernardine of ward, that date of the XII century, although the current building is of the XV. century at present the monastery has been reconvertido in housing of the statutory deputation of Álava and takes refuge in young in colonies of ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mill%C3 %A1n_%28 %C3 %81lava%29 |http| summer

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