Casa solar de Barrika Historical milestone · Barrika, Plentzia-Mungia, Bizkaia Image of Barrika, not of the place itself. According to local genealogical tradition, Sancho Vela founded the manor house of Barrika, the origin of its later organisation as an anteiglesia; this is a legendary date (the year 496) recorded by the sources without being historically verifiable. Photo: Zarateman (CC0) What to see and do in Barrika