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| Salinas of Añana
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The municipality of Añana is located 30 km to the west of Vitoria, with 21,9 Km² and 195 inhabitants. The municipality is compound for two towns, Atiega and Salinas of Añana that it is its capital and main population nucleus. Atiega forms a town council governed by an administrative meeting and endowed with certain internal autonomy, while Salinas of Añana is administered directly by the municipality. Salinas of Añana is famous for his exploitation of salt, abandoned today but in restoration process.Salinas of Añana (in Basque Gesaltza Añana and officially Salinas of Añana/Gesaltza-Añana) is the main population nucleus and capital of the municipality of Añana.Salinas of Añana possesses springs of salted water that form the river he Dies, due to that the underground courses of water cross silts of salt before leaving to the surface and whose exploitation is documented from the year 822. These salines together with those of Puddle of the Salt have been the most important in the whole Iberian Peninsula.
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| Laguardia (in Basque Biasteri)
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Laguardia (in Basque Biasteri) is a municipality located in the south of the county of Álava, to 64 km of capital Vitoria that belongs to the autonomous community of Basque country. It is located in the district of Rioja Alavesa.He/she is in an altozano and it is surrounded by a wall that ordered to lift the king Sancho the Strong one of Navarrese. Five access doors are still conserved to the city. Their name is: Mercadal, Butcher Shops, Pagans, San Juan, and Sacred Engracia. Their streets and corners conserve a medieval great flavor. Their economy is based on the industry of the wine, with elaboration own and numerous cellars.
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| Square of the White Virgin or Square Old Vitoria
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Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital of the historical territory of Álava and of Basque country.In 1181 the Navarrese king Sancho VI the Sage founds New Victoria's village on the hill that occupied the primitive town of Gasteiz, lifting a walled enclosure with the main purpose of serving as defensive fortification. In the year 1200 Vitoria-Gasteiz incorporates to the crown from Castile to the being taken by the king's troops Alfonso VIII that it endowed it of its first it enlarges Gothic in the hillside West. Alfonso X extended it in 1256 toward the east with union new streets. It was important their Jewish aljama before the orderly expulsion for Reyes Catholics, the ghetto whose cemetery is still conserved in park form with a commemorative monument of its past. In the year 1431, the king Juan II of Castile grant him/her the title of City.Among the events more historical reseñables it is the one of being scenario of the Battle of Vitoria June of 1813, 21 in the one that the French troops, moving in retreat, they were defeated by the Duke of Wellington. With this battle practically put an end to Guerra of the Spanish Independence. When at the end of July of the same year the news arrived at Vienna, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel took charge to Ludwig they go Beethoven the composition of a symphony with reason of this fact. It is about the op. 91 Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht bei Vitoria or Siegessymphonie. About this battle one can read Commemoration of the battle of Vitoria in their 150 anniversary (of several authors, Vitoria 1963).
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| Panorama of Elciego with the Church of San Andrés
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Elciego (in Basque Eltziego) is a municipality of the county of Álava, Basque country (Spain).The first testimony written on Elciego finds it in the year 1067, in Cartulario of San Millán of Cogolla. It is about a document in form of records of testament of Aznar Díaz of Zieko, edited in Latin of the time with a deeply Christian spirit.One cannot speak of the history of Elciego without keeping in mind the Jurisdiction of Laguardia. As neither you can value the Jurisdiction like something only given to the old inhabitants of what is at the moment the village of Laguardia. The Jurisdiction is dated May 25 1164 and it was granted by Sancho VI the Sage. The village Elciego, the same as so many other, it was beneficiary. Their inhabitants received privileges to belong to that conflicting bordering fringe, often whipped by the constants fights among the Kingdom of Navarrese and the Kingdom of Castile. The Jurisdiction granted facilities for all the residents of these bordering areas, the population increased and the defense of these lands was assured.
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| Llodio Town hall
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Llodio (in Basque Laudio and officially Laudio / Llodio) is a valley and municipality of the county of Álava, Basque country (Spain).The historical origins of Llodio are not very clear. The oldest vestiges in the town are the Roman bridge of Vitorica on the river Nervión, of which is an arch. This bridge would have been part of the roadway that Llanada united Alavesa with the Roman port of Flaviobriga (current Castro-Urdiales).The archaeological remains that demonstrate a Roman presence are reinforced by the theories of the linguists that believe that the name of the valley is an evolution of the Latin name Claudius or Claudianus that it would have evolved with the step of the years giving place to the population's two names, Basque, Laudio that is more similar to the Latin original; and the romance that is a more evolved and less recognizable form of the same one.
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