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Bodegas Marqués de Riscal. Frank Gherty. Álava. España

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Bodegas Marqués de Riscal, Spain

Marqués de Riscal (whose full trading name is Herederos del Marqués de Riscal, S.A.) is a Spanish business group dedicated to the wine industry. It has its origin and headquarters in the town of Elciego, in the Rioja Alavesa, where it began its activity in 1858, being the oldest winery in Álava.​

In 2006 the wineries of Elciego were transformed into the City of Wine, a complex that includes the primary wineries, the most modern, the vineyards and a leisure complex in which the Hotel Marqués de Riscal is framed, an emblematic building designed by the architect Frank Gehry and inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I.​

Since its origin in the nineteenth century, Marqués de Riscal has produced Rioja wine, but in 1972 it also settled in Rueda (Valladolid) to produce white wine that in 1980 would receive the denomination of origin of Rueda wine.​

The company's wine production sits on a vast expanse of vineyards owned by the company and others on a rental basis. Marqués de Riscal owns in the Rioja area 1500 ha of vineyards in Elciego, Leza, Laguardia and Villabuena de Álava, of which 500 ha are owned and 985 controlled. In the area of Rueda, it has the largest vineyard owned in the entire D.O., with 205 ha in the municipality of Rueda. It also has 250 ha more for rent in Rueda, La Seca, Serrada and Rodilana. In addition, it has 200 ha in the Zamorano municipalities of Toro and San Román de Hornija, from which it produces reds from the land of Castilla y León.​

Source: Wikipedia

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Repara tu Deuda Abogados cancela 36.000€ en Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava) con la Ley de Segunda Oportunidad

/COMUNICACIÓN/ El deudor cesó en su actividad empresarial y ahora cobra una pensión por incapacidad permanente El Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº7 de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava, País Vasco) ha dictado la Exoneración del Pasivo Insatisfecho (EPI) en el caso de un hombre que ha quedado liberado de una deuda de 36.000 euros. El caso lo ha tramitado Repara tu Deuda Abogados, despacho de abogados líder en…

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BODEGA YSIOS - Spain by Javier Gallego Via Flickr: La bodega Ysios, obra del arquitecto Santiago Calatrava, está situada en la localidad de Laguardia, en Álava, España. The Ysios winery, the work of the architect Santiago Calatrava, is located in the town of Laguardia, in Álava, Spain.

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Chechu Álava.

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ophelia by chechu álava, 2019, oil canvas, 33 x 41 centimeters

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The Civil Guard has arrested a person in Amurrio (Araba) as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of slander, after publishing "offensive" messages on a social network in which he "mocked" the death of two Civil Guard agents in a hit-and-run by a truck in March 2024 in Los Palacios (Seville). The investigation began last May 2024 after an anonymous call from a citizen to the Civil Guard in Castellón, in which they warned of the "derogatory" comment made by a user of a popular social network against the deceased Civil Guard agents. This post - which had a great impact as the user had four million followers - stated verbatim: "(It's) Better a dead cop, fertilizer for my garden". As soon as these facts were known, the necessary inquiries were made to determine the real identity of the person who owned the social network profile from which the comment had been made, and they managed to locate him in the town of Amurrio and arrest him.

Police state who?

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Archaeologists Discover Traces of 5,000 Seat Roman Circus in Spain

Archaeologists from ARKIKUS have announced the discovery of a Roman circus at Iruña-Veleia, a former Roman town in Hispania, now located in the province of Álava, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.

The town was an important transit centre on the Ab Asturica Burdigalam (Roman road), with a peak population of around 10,000 inhabitants.

In a recent study using aerial photography and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), archaeologists have found a Roman circus and previously unknown urban areas of Iruña-Veleia.

A Roman circus was a large open-air venue used mainly for chariot races, although sometimes serving other purposes. Chariot racing was the most popular of many subsidised public entertainments, and was an essential component in several religious festivals.

Chariot racing declined in significance in the Western Roman Empire following the fall of Rome, with the last known race held at the Circus Maximus in AD 549, organised by the Ostrogothic king, Totila.

According to a press statement by ARKIKUS, the circus is an elongated enclosure that accommodated up to 5,000 spectators, and measures 280 metres long by 72 metres wide.

Until now, only a handful of Roman circus’s are known in the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula, emphasizing the importance of Iruña-Veleia during the Roman period.

The study also revealed a Roman street system, evidence of buildings with porticoed areas, and a linear feature indicating the route of the Ab Asturica Burdigalam.

By Mark Milligan.

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1678 Pedro Ruiz González - Don José Fernández de Vicuña y Andoin

(Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava)

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El Sotillo Trikuharria Burial Chamber, Spain (No. 1)

El Sotillo is a rock in Leza, in Rioja Alavesa, on the border with the municipality of Laguardia. Like other tricularis around it, it was built at the end of the Neolithic or at the beginning of the Chalcolithic. It is part of the megalithic station of Alabar Rioja. The bodies found there have offered various results, in the field of ancient genetics.

It is a corridor-type megalithic tomb. The tomb is an oval chamber (3.30 m x 2.90 m), and has nine slabs, one of which is 2.29 meters high. The corridor (0.60 m wide, 1.30 m high) is limited by five slabs. Around the monument is a mound made of earth and small stones, with a diameter of about 18 meters. The track to get there cuts a part of the mound itself.

, on the border with the municipality of Guardia . Like other tricularis around it, it was built at the end of the Neolithic or at the beginning of the Chalcolithic. It is part of the megalithic station of Alabar Rioja. The bodies found there have offered various results, in the field of ancient genetics.

It is a corridor-type megalithic tomb. The tomb is an oval chamber (3.30 m x 2.90 m), and has nine slabs, one of which is 2.29 meters high. The corridor (0.60 m wide, 1.30 m high) is limited by five slabs. Around the monument is a mound made of earth and small stones, with a diameter of about 18 meters. The track to get there cuts a part of the mound itself.

Source: Wikipedia

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Born on 3 October 1967, Javier de Andrés is a Spanish politician. A member of the People's Party, he served as Deputy General of Álava from 2011 to 2015 and as Delegate of the Government in the Basque Country from 2016 to 2018. He was elected to the 15th Congress of Deputies in the 2023 Spanish general election representing Álava.

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Retiran y destruyen el escudo franquista que presidía una de las dos torretas de la Subdelegación en Álava y que era el último símbolo de este tipo en una calle vasca, colocado en 1953. La delegada del Gobierno de España en Euskadi, la socialista Marisol Garmendia, ha contrapuesto la diligencia de su partido en el cumplimiento de las leyes de memoria democrática y de reconocimiento a las víctimas de la Guerra Civil y de la dictadura frente a los pasos atrás de PP y Vox. Y ha invitado a la alcaldesa de Vitoria, Maider Etxebarria, también del PSE-EE, a que retire la calle dedicada al segundo alcalde ilegítimo de Vitoria tras el go lpe de Estado de 1936, José Lejarreta, algo que nunca ha estado realmente en los planes de los diferentes ayuntamientos de la capital ya que supuestamente fue un regidor que apoyó las fiestas locales.

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A defensive barricade of the 7th company of the Álava Requeté (Nationalists), in the mountain pass of Barrenilla, Álava, Basque Country.