Ayegui

Ayegui - Aiegi municipality
Santa María la Real de Irache Monastery
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Comarca :	Estella
Coordinates	42 ° 39 ′  N , 2 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 39 ′  N , 2 ° 4 ′  W
Height :	489  msnm
Area :	9.61 km²
Residents :	2,366 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	246.2 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	958
Postal code :	31240
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31041
Nearest airport :	Pamplona
administration
Official language :	Basque / Spanish
Mayor :	Luis Cándido Araiz Astráin (independent)
Website :	www.ayegui.org

Ayegui (co-officially Aiegi in Basque ) is a Spanish municipality in Navarra , two kilometers from the city of Estella-Lizarra and around 45.5 km from the capital Pamplona . The place is located at the northeastern foot of the 1,048 meter high Montejurra mountain , from which one has a magnificent panoramic view of the area. The Autovía A-12 from Pamplona to Logroño runs right past the village. The population was 2,100 in 2012.

The first documentary mention comes from the 11th century . The monastery of Santa María la Real de Irache ( Spanish Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Irache ), 400 meters southwest of the town center, dates from the Middle Ages . It is a former Benedictine - monastery and is located on the French Way of the Camino de Santiago , in the Middle Ages an important pilgrim hostel . The former monastery has now been classified as a monument . The Navarre Ethnographic Museum, Museo Etnológico de Navarra “Julio Caro Baroja” , is currently being set up in part of the former monastery building . In addition, other areas are to be converted into a Parador hotel.

The Bodegas Irache winery with 150 hectares of acreage is an important local employer and was founded in 1891. Today the sub-area called "Tierra Estella" is one of the best areas of the Navarra Designation of Origin for the production of quality wines with great potential for expansion. The region with its vineyards supplied the royal house of Navarre with wine as early as the 12th century . The best-known grape varieties in the area are Tempranillo , Garnacha , Cabernet Sauvignon , Merlot , Graciano and white wines with the grape varieties Viura , Chardonnay and Malvasia . The history of the winery runs parallel to the monastery of the same name, where the first pilgrims' hospital on the Way of St. James was once established.

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

Personalities

• Javier Martínez Aginaga (* 1988), football player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Parish data , accessed August 31, 2012 (es)
3. ↑ Monasterio de Santa María de Irache - Santa María Monastery in Irache ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Arts and Culture. Architectural monuments: Sights in Navarra, Spain , on www.spain.info (German) 
4. ↑ Museo Etnológico Julio Caro Baroja de Irache -Ayegui- on www.navarra.es (Spanish)
5. ↑ Homepage of the Museo Etnológico de Navarra (Spanish)
6. ↑ “Economía / Empresas.-Gobierno navarro y el Estado firman escritura para convertir Monasterio de Irache en Parador Nacional” , elEconomista.es , December 5, 2006 (Spanish)
7. ↑ Website of the Bodega Irache (es / en / fr / de)

swell

• Municipal administration website (es)
• Bodegas Irache website (es / en / de / fr)