Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Labastida

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Town of the Rioja Alavesa

A town of the Rioja Alavesa that Henry II had granted in 1370 to the marshal Diego Gómez Sarmiento. In the middle of the 16th century the town's bourgeoisie began to build the church of the Asunción, consecrated in 1602, and between 1730 and 1745 the town hall, which is now the council seat, was built. It belonged to the diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada until 1862.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción: Church, c. 1550 to 1711

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