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Tourist Spot Attractions In Province of Alava

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Álava or Araba , officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see. Its capital city, Vitoria-Gasteiz, is also the seat of the political main institutions of the autonomous community. It borders the Basque provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa to the north, the community of La Rioja to the south, the province of Burgos to the west and the community of Navarre to the east. The Enclave of Treviño, surrounded by Alavese territory, is however part of the province of Burgos, thus belonging to the autonomous commun...
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Tourist Spot Attractions In Province of Alava

  • 1. Iglesia de Santa Maria de los Reyes Laguardia
    The Church of Santa María de los Reyes is a church located in Laguardia, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.
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  • 2. Salt Valley Salinas De Anana
    A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines. Natural salt pans are geological formations that are also created by water evaporating and leaving behind salts. Some salt evaporation ponds are only slightly modified from their natural version, such as the ponds on Great Inagua in the Bahamas, or the ponds in Jasiira, a few kilometres south of Mogadishu, where seawater is trapped and left to evaporate in the sun. The seawater or brine is fed into large ponds and water is drawn out through natural evaporation which allows the salt to be subsequently harvested. The ponds also provide a productive resting and feeding ground for many species of waterbirds, which may include endangered species. The ponds are commonly separated by...
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  • 5. Castillo de Portilla Portilla
    Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador, who participated as a soldier in the conquest of Mexico under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. As an experienced soldier of fortune, he had already participated in expeditions to Tierra Firme, Cuba, and to Yucatán before joining Cortés. In his later years he was an encomendero and governor in Guatemala where he wrote his memoirs called The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. He began his account of the conquest almost thirty years after the events and later revised and expanded it in response to the biography published by Cortes's chaplain Francisco López de Gómara, which he considered to be largely inaccurate in that it did not give due recognition to the efforts and sacrifices of others i...
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  • 11. Palacio Real de Olite Olite
    The Palace of the Kings of Navarre of Olite or Royal Palace of Olite is a castle-palace in the town of Olite, in Navarre, Spain. It was one of the seats of the Court of the Kingdom of Navarre, since the reign of Charles III the Noble until its union with Castile . Surely there is no king with a more beautiful castle or palace and with so many gilded rooms it could not say or even could imagine how magnificent and sumptuous is this palace This monument was quite damaged in 1813 by a fire caused by general Espoz y Mina during the Napoleonic French Invasion with the aim of that was not occupied by French troops. It was largely restored from 1937 in works that lasted for 30 years giving it back its original appearance. Nevertheless, miscellaneous architectural decoration of its interior, and t...
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  • 14. Church of San Pedro Apostol Vitoria Gasteiz
    The Church of San Pedro Apóstol is a medieval church located in Vitoria, Spain. It was declared a national monument in 1931 and is currently classed as a Bien de Interés Cultural.
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  • 15. Iglesia de San Vicente Martir Vitoria Gasteiz
    The Church of San Vicente Mártir is a church located in Vitoria, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984.The church is named after Saint Vincent of Saragossa, the 4th century martyr.
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