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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Cuadrilla de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava

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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz

Monument · Vitoria-Gasteiz, Cuadrilla de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava

An 11th-century Romanesque sanctuary located in Argandoña, about 8 km from Vitoria-Gasteiz, atop a promontory with views over the Alava plain. It has a simple floor plan crowned by three apses, historiated capitals and the ornate 'Puerta Speciosa.' It passed into the hands of Cluniac monks from Nájera in 1138, was sold to Fernán Pérez de Ayala in 1431 and donated to the Hospital de Santiago of Vitoria in 1542; since 1923 it has been kept by Benedictine monks, who canonically crowned the image on 6 May of that year. Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz is the patroness of Álava.

construcción siglo XI; 1138 monjes cluniacenses; 1431 venta; 1542 donación; coronación canónica el 6 de mayo de 1923; declarado monumento histórico-artístico el 3 de junio de 1931

Photo: Basotxerri (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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