A digital gate open to heritage
The project
Ondare Irekia | Patrimonio Abierto is a project of Álava Medieval / Erdi Aroko Araba sponsored by Fundación Vital Fundazioa. With this initiative, we open a digital door to anyone who approaches the different points that are part of this initiative.
Through a QR code that you can scan with your smartphone, you can access a complete file with updated historical-artistic information, in addition to a series of digital resources that include 360° photography, thanks to which you will discover the inner space of these places that are usually closed to the public.
The church of Saint Lucy of Zambrana
The proximity of Zambrana to the Ebro river and, therefore, to the border with Burgos and La Rioja, caused this town to receive very varied influences from the neighbouring areas throughout its history. At present, the church of Saint Lucy shows a particular appearance due to the different moments in which it was built.
The church of Our Lady of the Assumption
In the small town of Alaitza you will find one of the most surprising churches in the Basque Country. From the outside what we can see is a simple Romanesque temple with a semicircular apse with two naves and a porch. However, the true wealth is found within, as it contains an extensive and rich program of medieval painting that has become an enigma that is difficult to answer.
Church of Saint Julian and Saint Basilissa-Oreitia
Oreitia is geographically located in the western Alavese Plains, ten kilometres away from the capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz. As the vast majority of the small towns that are scattered across this region, its history starts in the first medieval centuries and, at the same time, the history of its church also begins.
Church of San Pedro of Villanueva de la Oca
Saint Peter’s parish church is a building that has undergone various transformations throughout time. Most of the elements that we see today are due to the restructuring suffered during the 18th century.
The church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Ordoñana
This building is a good work of the second half of the 16th century. Nevertheless we can find numerous remains of the old Romanesque manufacturing.The existence of the Romanesque building is confirmed as we reach the portico, where a notable medieval facade appears, which could date from the late 12th century or the beginnings of the 13th century.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception – Salinillas de Buradón
There is almost no trace today of the primitive church of Salinillas de Buradón, which probably dated from the 13th century, when the town was founded. Only the 16th-century manufacturing remains, which was subjected to some subsequent additions and renovations.
The church of the Assumption of Mary- La Puebla de Arganzón
The temple of Our Lady of the Assumption is a magnificent example of Late Gothic religious architecture. Inside we faind one of the the most remarkable and spectacular element of the church, the altarpiece.
Iglesia de San Martín de Estavillo
Estavillo is a strategic town located on top of a hill that looks towards the river Zadorra. Its role as a crossroads, including the Jacobean route and the court road to France, explains the wealth that the town obtained in the medieval centuries.
Basilica of San Prudencio and Saint Andrew – Armentia
On the outskirts of Vitoria-Gasteiz lies the basilica of San Prudencio and San Andrés de Armentia, seat of the cult of San Prudencio, patron saint of Álava. Built as a collegiate church during the 12th century, the pressure from the neighbouring town of Vitoria made the place fall into decay, hitting the bottom on the 18th century, when it had already lost its cloister and other spaces of the complex
The sanctuary of Estíbaliz
Throughout its history, the enclave has had different uses and functions: it has been a tenement with a fortress that today no longer exists, it was conceived as a monastery, it had a hospital for pilgrims and travellers of the Way of Saint James, it was a hermitage of great devotion and, in its years of decline, back in the 19th century, it became an agricultural warehouse and private house of a resident of the area.