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Calahorra Cathedral
Category: Cathedral in Calahorra
Calahorra’s Cathedral is the most ancient historical sight in the diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroсo. Its origin lays in the martyrdom of the Roman legionnaires Emeterius and Celedonius. In the 4th century, the peregrination to the sacred place enabled the building of a Baptistery at the...

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Logrono

Concatedral de Santa María de la Redonda
Category: Cathedral in Logrono
Concatedral de Santa María de La Redonda in Logrono is situated at Plaza del Mercado (city downtown). This Gothic style cathedral was constructed in 1516-1538. The two towers were added in the 1700's.

Haro

Haro Wine Festival (summer)
Category: Events & Festivals in Haro
Haro Wine Festival is held every summer in the town of Haro (La Rioja regio , northern Spain). It involves wine drinking competitions and contests and a Batalla de Vino (Battle of Wine) where wine is fired from water pistols, tubes, hoses and bottles.

Abalos

Abalos Church
Category: Church in Abalos
Church in Abalos is beautiful church, with a renaissance front dated from XVI century, most of it, under a arch, a Pediment. The tower, dated from XVII century, is baroque style.

Briones

Santa Maria Church
Category: Church in Briones
Santa Maria Church in Briones is in a Renaissance and Catholic Monarchs style and dates from XVI century.

Sajazarra

Castel-palace of Sajazarra
Category: Fortress in Sajazarra
Sajazarra has wonderful location with a triptych medieval structure of a fortified village. It has a conserved castle-palace, dates from the end of XIV century or the beginning of XV century.

Najera

Monastery of Santa María la Real
Category: Monastery in Najera
The monastery of Santa Maria la Real in Najera was originally a royal foundation. Alfonso VI ceded the monastery to the Cluniac order. It was an important pilgrimage stop on the Camino de Santiago. It is particularly well-known for the spectacular woodwork in the choir of the church.

San Millan de la Cogolla

Yuso and Suso monasteries
Category: Monastery in San Millan de la Cogolla
These are twin monasteries named Yuso and Suso are located in San Millán de la Cogolla. They were declared a World Heritage Site in 1997. Suso is the older of the two monasteries, and one of its claims to fame is as the site where phrases in the Spanish and Basque languages were written for the f...

Banares

Church of Santa Cruz
Category: Church in Banares
Santa Cruz is located in Banares and is typically Spanish gothic church. It was completed in 1510.

San Vicente de la Sonsierra

San Vicente Castle
Category: Fortress in San Vicente de la Sonsierra
San Vicente Castle is located on the top of a hill overlooking town of San Vicente de la Sonsierra and Ebro river. It was built after 1170 or 1172 under supervision by Ferrant Moro. The fortress has a kidney-shaped base in an irregular semicircular shape to adapt to the topography of the terrain.

Alfaro

San Miguel Collegiate Church
Category: Church in Alfaro
San Miguel Collegiate Church (Colegiata de San Miguel Arcángel) in Alfaro was built in XVI-th and XVII-th centuries. It is designed to look like a cathedral. The church was declared a National Monument in 1976.

Alberite

Church of Saint Martin
Category: Church in Alberite

Villamediana de Iregua

Church of the Assumption
Category: Church in Villamediana de Iregua
Church of the Assumption (Iglesia de la Asunción) is located in the center of Villamediana de Iregua. It was built in the XVI century. Its style is Gothic but there are many elements with influences of the Baroque.

Arnedo

Castle of Arnedo
Category: Fortress in Arnedo

Quel

Castle of Quel
Category: Fortress in Quel

Quel

The Statue of the Virgin
Category: Statue in Quel
The Statue of the Virgin in Quel is situated on the clifftop above the town and looks down on the terracotta tiled rooftops of the old part of Quel.

Logrono

Museum of La Rioja
Category: Museum in Logrono
The Museum and gallery of La Rioja in town Logrono is situated in Espartero Palace - a Baroque style building from 18th-century. It has sections about ethnography and contemporary art. There are exibited paintings and sculptures from the 12th-19th centuries, ivory and silver objects.

San Vicente de la Sonsierra

Parish Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Category: Church in San Vicente de la Sonsierra
Construction of Santa María la Mayor Fortress Church (Iglesia-Fortaleza Santa María la Mayor) in San Vicente de la Sonsierra began in the beginning of the XVI-th century within the walled enclosure of the castle. It is built in flamboyant Gothic style. It has a single nave and a polygonal sanct...

Alfaro

Natural reserve Sotos del Ebro
Category: Reserve in Alfaro
Sotos del Ebro nature preserve is located several kilometers north-east of Alfaro. It is suitable for bird watching. The region has the largest in Europe colony of white storks. There can be seen also herons, blackbirds and kingfishers.

Abalos

San Esteban Church
Category: Church in Abalos
Church San Esteban (Iglesia de San Esteban) in town of Abalos was built in XV-th - XVIII century.

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