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What to see and do in Agurain/Salvatierra

What to see and do in Agurain/Salvatierra (Cuadrilla de Salvatierra/Agurain, Álava): 10 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 2 Activities · 3 Historical milestones

When to go to Agurain/Salvatierra: festival calendar

June: Fiestas patronales de Agurain (24 de junio, 15 de agosto, 29 de agosto y primer domingo de octubre)
October: Feria de Salvatierra (martes tras el primer domingo de octubre)

How far each place is from the centre of Agurain/Salvatierra

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What to see and do in Agurain/Salvatierra

Agurain/Salvatierra
Village
Seat town of the Cuadrilla de Salvatierra/Agurain, founded on 23 January 1256 by Alfonso X the Wise on the village of Hagurahin, to which he granted a charter and the same privileges as Vitoria under the name Salvatierra. Over the following two years the villages of Alangua, Arrízala, Eguíleor, Opacua, Ulíbarri, Sallurtegi, and Legutiano were brought under its jurisdiction.
Murallas de Salvatierra
Monument
Walled enclosure whose construction began in 1259; King Sancho IV exempted the town from paying tribute to the Crown in April 1286 to speed up the works. The town preserves much of its original defensive layout, with three parallel streets closed off at their ends by the fortress-churches of Santa María and San Juan.
Iglesia de Santa María
Monument
One of the two fortress-churches reinforcing Salvatierra's wall at the northern end of the town.
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
Monument
15th-16th-century church with a 16th-century altarpiece of Flemish influence and an organ from 1809.
Casa de los Azcárraga
Monument
Manor house divided into two sections, from the late 16th and 18th centuries, with noble heraldry.
Dolmen de Sorginetxe
Historical milestone
Neolithic megalith located next to Arrízala, near old transhumance droving routes.
Fundación de Salvatierra en 1256
Historical milestone
The municipality was founded in 1256 by Alfonso X the Wise, who granted a charter (fuero) to the old hamlet of Hagurahin and gave it the name Salvatierra.
El señorío de los Ayala y la ejecución de 1521
Historical milestone
In 1382 King Juan I granted the town as a lordship to the Ayala family; the lordship ended abruptly in 1521 when Count Pedro López de Ayala was executed for rebelling against Emperor Carlos I. An imperial document from 1522 restoring the town's royal (realengo) status was recovered by the town council at an auction in 2005.
Feria de Salvatierra
Activity
Livestock fair more than six hundred years old, held on the Tuesday following the first Sunday of October.
Fiestas patronales de Agurain
Activity
Saint John, the town's patron saint, is celebrated on 24 June; the Assumption on 15 August; the Beheading of Saint John on 29 August; and the Virgen del Rosario on the first Sunday of October.