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.
Vitoria-Gasteiz is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Araba/Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, and the Lehendakari's official residency. The municipality—which comprises not only the city but also the mainly agricultural lands of 63 villages around—is the largest in the Basque Country, with a total area of 276.81 square kilometres (106.88 sq mi), and it has a population of 252,571. The dwellers of Vitoria-Gasteiz are called vitorianos or gasteiztarrak, while traditionally they are dubbed babazorros.
Agurain in Basque and Salvatierra in Spanish, it is a town and municipality located in the province of Álava in the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain. The municipality, numbering 4,986 inhabitants (2015), is in turn the head town of the district or Cuadrilla of Salvatierra. The gross income per family amounts to 6,784 €. With reference to workforce by economic sectors, 10.36% are employed in agriculture, 35.78% in the industry sector, 47.92% in the service sector and 5.95% in the construction industry.
Yécora is a town and municipality in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
The University of the Basque Country is the public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially it was made up of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of Sarriko (1955), Medicine (1968) and Sciences (1968). Following the General Law of Education (1970), the Nautical School (1784), the School of Business Studies of Bilbao (1818) and the Technical Schools of Engineers (1897) joined in, until it grew into the complex of thirty centers that compose it presently.
The Copa del Rey 2007-08 was the 72nd edition of the Spanish basketball Cup. It was organized by the ACB and was disputed in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country in the Fernando Buesa Arena between days 7 and 10 of February. The winning team was DKV Joventut.
Club Deportivo Vitoria is a football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1945, its senior side is currently the farm team of SD Eibar and plays in Tercera División – Group 4, with its ground for home fixtures being the Unbe Sports Complex in Eibar, Gipuzkoa.
Amárita is a village and city council in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the province of Álava, Basque Country, Spain. It is included within the rural area northwest of Vitoria.
Arriaga-Lakua was a Spanish village in Álava, Basque Country and is at present one quarter of Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Cerio is a village in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Basque Country, Spain.
The Tower of Mendoza is a tower located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984. The tower is strategically located between the roads of Old Castile and the Ebro river.
Club Deportivo Ariznabarra is a Spanish football club based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1972, it currently plays in the Preferente Alavesa, holding home games at Campo municipal de Ariznabarra.
The Great Sequoia was an individual sequoia tree located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of the Basque Country, and was a symbol of the city because of its enormous dimensions. It was declared as an individual tree by Decree 265, on 16 May 1995, and died in 2014.
The Plaza de los Fueros is a plaza or square located in the city centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz, which is the capital of the Basque Country, Spain. It was built in 1979 in memory of the county code of laws named fuero in Spanish.
The massacre of 3 March 1976 in Vitoria is the massacre that took place on March 3, 1976, in the Basque capital during the so-called Spanish Transition: in a day of strike, the Spanish Armed Police Corps used tear gas to force the workers out of the parish where they were gathering in assembly. As the workers left the Church of San Francisco de Asís, in the working-class neighbourhood of Zaramaga, they were shot by the police. This resulted in 5 dead workers and 150 injured with gunshot wounds. The same police described the facts as a massacre. These facts inspired Lluís Llach celebrated song Campanades a morts.
Borinbizkarra is a sector located to the northeast of the District of Zabalgana, in the city of Vitoria, Basque country, Spain. Borinbizkarra has an area of 343.505 square meters.
Okina is a village of the municipality of Bernedo, in the province of Álava in the Basque Country of Spain, situated about 15 kilometres from Vitoria-Gasteiz. Its population (2014) is 29.
Ariznavarra is a neighbourhood in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in the southwest of the city.
The Second tower of the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, also called Tower of the Correría was the smaller of the two towers that noted for its height, the other tower exist today intact, that were in the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
