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• Santiago el Real Church. Logroño.

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  … Calle Barriocepo 6. 26001. Logroño. La Rioja. Located in the old town of Logroño, the Municipal Council would meet in this church and it was also the site where the most important Local Council documents were kept. Building work began in 1513, and it has a nave with three sections and transept. The …

• Santa María de Palacio Church. Logroño.

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  … Calle Marqués de San Nicolás 30. 26001. Logroño. La Rioja. E-mail: info@lariojaturismo.com. www.lariojaturismo.com. The church is called this because it was built on the foundation of a palace donated by Alfonso VII of Castile.It is also known as “La Aguja” or “La Imperial”. The church was founded i…

• Santo Tomás Church in Haro. Haro.

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  … Plaza de la Iglesia s/n. 26200. Haro. La Rioja. E-mail: haro@lariojaturismo.com. www.haro.org. The church is built on the site of the former building.It was constructed under the protection of the High Constables of Castile.Its construction began in the 16th century and was carried out by Juan de Ra…

• Shrine of Santa María de Peñalba. Arnedillo.

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  … Periferia sur este de la localidad. 26589. Arnedillo. La Rioja. E-mail: oficina@valcidacos.es. http://www.arnedillo.org/Ayuntamiento.3383.0.html. The shrine of Santa María served as the parish church to the old village of Peñalba, today abandoned. It is one of the few Mozarabic buildings still survi…

• Calahorra Cathedral. Calahorra.

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  … Plaza del Cardenal Cascajares s/n. 26500. Calahorra. La Rioja. Fax.: +34 941131079 | E-mail: catedraldecalahorra@gmail.com. www.catedralcalahorra.org. The cathedral is located in the place where two roman legionaries were decapitated. Originally it was a baptistery, and after periods of ups and down…

• Sta. Mª de La Redonda Procathedral. Logroño.

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  … Calle Portales 14. 26003. Logroño. La Rioja. Built over an ancient Romanesque temple from the 12th century, the building dates from the 16th century. It was bestowed with the title of Collegiate Church when it merged with San Martin de Albelda Church, in 1453. The building has undergone several modi…

• Clavijo Castle. Clavijo.

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  … 26130. Clavijo. La Rioja. http://lariojaturismo.com. The castle is located in the high area of the town.The Battle of Clavijo, between the Asturian King Ramiro I and the Emir of Córdoba Abd-al-Rahman II, took place near the tower. It is a very emblematic castle with a noteworthy keep.It belongs to t…

• Santa María de la Piscina Church. San Vicente de la Sonsierra.

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  … 26339. Peciña. San Vicente de la Sonsierra. La Rioja. E-mail: ayto@sanvicentedelasonsierra.org. www.sanvicentedelasonsierra.org. The church was constructed in 1110 on a small hill, one km. from Peciña. It was consecrated in the year 1137 and the work was completed in the 13th century. It is a Romane…

• Santa María la Mayor Church-Fortress. San Vicente de la Sonsierra.

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  … Calle Fortaleza s/n. 26338. San Vicente de la Sonsierra. La Rioja. E-mail: ayto@sanvicentedelasonsierra.org. www.sanvicentedelasonsierra.org. The parish church began to be built at the beginning of the 16th century within the walled enclosure of the castle. It is built in flamboyant Gothic style. De…

• San Bartolomé Church. Logroño.

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  … Plaza de San Bartolomé. 26001. Logroño. La Rioja. E-mail: info@lariojaturismo.com. www.lariojaturismo.com. The church was built in the 18th century and restored in the 15th. The church has three naves, separated by polygonal pillars, in which the transept in particular stands out.The entire church i…

• Santa María de la Estrella Church. Enciso.

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  … 26586. Enciso. La Rioja. Fax.: +34 941394226 | E-mail: oficina@valcidacos.es. www.valcidacos.es. The building was constructed towards the end of the 15th century. It has a single nave, with four sections in the sanctuary.The sacristy is the work of Juan Marín, Domingo del Campo and José de Faro and …

• San Pedro Apóstol Church. Enciso.

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  … 26586. Enciso. La Rioja. Fax.: +34 941394226 | The church was built at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the XVI century. It has defensive-type tower from the 12th century. There is a single nave with three sections and a quadrangular sanctuary.The church has a multitude of open chapels n…

• Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.

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  … Plaza del Santo s/n. 26250. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. La Rioja. E-mail: museocatedral@terra.es. http://www.catedralsantodomingo.es/.   Its origins date back to 1158, when building work began. In the 14th and 16th centuries it underwent various modifications until it attained its current appearanc…

• San Miguel Collegiate Church in Alfaro. Alfaro.

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  … Plaza de España s/n. 26540. Alfaro. La Rioja. E-mail: turismoalfaro@aytoalfaro.org. http://www.alfaro.es/. It was declared a National Monument in 1976. It took more than a hundred years to build (16th-17th centuries. The idea was to make it look like a cathedral. The various storeys, with their pila…

• Basilica of Santa María de los Arcos. Tricio.

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  … Tricio. La Rioja. It was originally a Roman mausoleum dating from the 3rd century which was transformed into a Christian basilica in the 5th century. It was built using architectural elements from the old Roman city of Tritium Megallum, which is formed by what are today the towns of Tricio, Nájera a…

• San Salvador Church. Tirgo.

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  … Calle Iglesia 5. 26211. Tirgo. La Rioja. www.ayuntamientodetirgo.es. The Romanesque building constructed in the 12th century.. On the outside, the steeple, the bell tower, and the gabled roof and the semicircular apse decorated with brackets and arches are especially interesting.It is a single nave …

• Santa María Church in Ezcaray. Ezcaray.

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  … 26280. Ezcaray. La Rioja. E-mail: turismo@ezcaray.org. www.ezcaray.org. The construction of this rather large building dates from the 12th to the 16th centuries. Its walls are of ashlar reddish stone typical of the region.It is a church-come-fortification with noteworthy cylindrical towers on the co…

• Monastery of Nuestra Señora de La Piedad. Casalarreina.

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  … Plaza de Santo Domingo, nº 5. 26214. Casalarreina. La Rioja. E-mail: ojatiron@ojatiron.com. http://www.lariojaturismo.com/lugares_fichas/ampliar_ficha.php?Id_contenido=482&Buscador=113. This monastery-convent of Dominican nuns is a splendid Gothic-Renaissance building. The decorative sculptures on t…

• Santa María de la Estrella Monastery. San Asensio.

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  … 26340. San Asensio. La Rioja. http://lariojaturismo.com/monasterios/index.php. The monastery belonged to the Jeronimo order in the 15th century. It was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style that is harmonious with the original structure. You can now visit various areas of the building: Puerta de los Caballero…

• Santa María de San Salvador Monastery. Cañas.

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  … Calle Real 2. 26225. Cañas. La Rioja. Tel.: +34 941379083 | + 34 941379145 | E-mail: cister_cannas@hotmail.com. http://lariojaturismo.com/monasterios/index.php. The monastery is in the town of Cañas, 40 kms. from Logroño. The origin of the monastery is due to the donation given by Count López Díaz d…

• Santa María la Real Monastery. Nájera.

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  … Plaza de Santa María s/n. 26300. Nájera. La Rioja. E-mail: info@santamarialareal.net. http://lariojaturismo.com/monasterios/index.php. According to legend, this beautiful monastery was founded in 1052 by king Don García Sánchez III, after he found a mysterious image of the Virgin Mary in a nearby ca…

• Santa María de Valvanera Monastery. Anguiano.

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  … 26322. Anguiano. La Rioja. Fax.: + 34 941377194 | E-mail: hostal@abadiavalvanera.com. http://lariojaturismo.com/monasterios/index.php. The sanctuary was built after the discovery of a 9th-century, Byzantine style image of Santa María. The monastery’s name comes from the Latin expression, “Vallis Ven…

• Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla. San Millán de la Cogolla.

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  … Zona Monasterios. 26326. San Millán de la Cogolla. La Rioja. Fax.: +34 941373082 | E-mail: sanmillan@lariojaturismo.com. http://www.monasteriodeyuso.org. Suso Monastery was the setting for the first words of Castilian Spanish and also the first poems in the language. It received the World Heritage d…

• Yuso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla. San Millán de la Cogolla.

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  … Monasterio de San Millán. Yuso. Agustinos Recoletos. 26326. San Millán de la Cogolla. La Rioja. Fax.: +34 941373049 | E-mail: info@monasteriodeyuso.org. www.monasteriodeyuso.org. The library at Yuso is one of the most important in Spain, not only on account of the number of documents it contains, bu…

• Puente de Piedra bridge. Logroño.

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  … Avenida de Navarra, 1. 26001. Logroño. La Rioja. It is one of the four bridges on the Ebro River in Logroño. It is also called San Juan de Ortega Bridge and the current construction dates from 1884, after the old bridge collapsed in 1871. It is one of the symbols of the city, it appears on its coat …