Villava-Atarrabia

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Villava-Atarrabia municipality
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Villava-Atarrabia (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : NavarreNavarre Navarre
Province : Navarre
Comarca : Cuenca de Pamplona
Coordinates 42 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 35 ′  W
Height : 430  msnm
Area : 1.1 km²
Residents : 10,204 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 9,276.36 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 31610
Municipality number  ( INE ): 31258
administration
Official language : Castilian , Basque
Mayor : Pello Gurbindo Jimenez (2007)
Website : www.villava.es
Location of the municipality
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Villava-Atarrabia ( Spanish / Basque ) is a municipality in the Autonomous Region of Navarra (Comunidad Foral de Navarra) in Spain.

It borders Pamplona and Burlada-Burlata in the south, Huarte in the east and Ezcabarte in the north . The place lies in the Pamplona Depression and belongs to the extended urban area of ​​the Navarre capital. With a little more than one square kilometer of municipal area, Villava-Atarrabia is the smallest municipality in Navarre in terms of area, but it is the eighth largest city in terms of population.

Origin of name

There was a debate between Navarre historians about the name of the place that existed here before the re-establishment. The fact that his name was Atarrabia is only a hypothesis that has not yet been secured by documents or archaeological finds. However, the Fuero General de Navarra from the middle of the 12th century mentions the bridge at the Trinidad de Arre Hospital as "Puente de Atarrabia".

However, neither the meaning nor the possible origin of the name from Basque is clear. It should be composed of "ate" (passage), "Arre" (neighboring village) and "ibia" (ford). Near Villava there is actually a narrow point on the way to Arre, where the river bed of the Río Ultzama narrows, which could represent the background for the name of the place. It could be translated as “ford in the gorge of Arre”. However, this thesis is not undisputed, so that the meaning of the name remains speculative.

In the 12th century, Sancho VI. next to the hamlet of Atarrabia a place to which he grants the Fuero of the new market town of Pamplona. As the founder, he also chose the name: Villanova. Over time, this ground down to Villaova and Villava, in Basque it changes to Billaba or Billeba. At the end of the 20th century, the name Atarrabia was increasingly used and finally added as an official part of the name.

history

The place was after the reconquest of the region from the Moors in 1184 by King Sancho VI. re-established by Navarre .

Due to its location on the Way of St. James - and only 35 km away from Roncesvalles - Atarrabia with the "Trinidad de Arre" hostel, which is used again today, became the second stage of the St. James pilgrims on Spanish soil. How many settlements on the Jacobean route became the place along the pilgrims committed road, Calle Mayor is still the main road.

Villava suffered from the Napoleonic Wars as well as from the Carlist Wars .

Although Villava was not in the combat zone, 18 residents were shot after the Franco coup in 1936.

Industrialization began in the 19th century with the establishment of the paper industry, later wood, cardboard and liqueur factories followed. However, the current increase in population is leaving less and less space for manufacturing, so that more and more companies are leaving or planning to move in the medium term.

politics

List of previous mayors
Term of office Surname Political party
2007-2011 Pello Gurbindo Jimenez Nafarroa Bai
2003-2007 Alfonso Ucar Zaratiegi Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN)
1999-2003 Alfonso Ucar Zaratiegi UPN
1999-1999 Peio J. Monteano Sorbet Eusko Alkartasuna
1996-1999 Alfonso Ucar Zaratiegi UPN
1995-1996 Hilario Eransus Olleta UPN
1991-1995 Vicente Sabalza Martínez independently

Act in local Villavian politics

Previous actors were

Town hall of Villava with hoisted icebuña (2007)

In 1999 Villava was ruled by a coalition of Eusko Alkartasuna, Izquierda Unida and Herri Batasuna. After Mayor Peio J. Monteano (Eusko Alkartasuna) refused to support coalition partner Euskal Herritarok for a motion calling for an attack on a councilor in the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) to be condemned, he resigned from the mayor's office. The coalition then broke up, and the UPN provided the mayor. She ruled with the support of the Partido Socialista de Navarra up to and including June 2007.

In the 2007 local elections, the Nafarroa Bai alliance of Eusko Alkartasuna, Aralar, Batzarre and Partido Nacionalista Vasco received the most votes and provided six city councilors, five seats went to the Union del Pueblo Navarro, two went to the Partido Socialista Navarro, and Izquierda Unida won one Seat.

In October 2007, the city council decided that the Basque regional flag of the Irentiña should be hoisted in front of the town hall . The Navarre regional government took action against this decision with reference to the national law on symbols (Ley Foral de Símbolos), whereupon the Villava City Council appealed to the Supreme Court of Navarre. In December 2008, the court decided on a violation of the aforementioned law, despite the fact that the flag was only placed in front of and not in the town hall. In April 2009, the city council decided, in accordance with the law, to catch up with the Irentiña and obliged the city councils of Nafarroa Bai to assume the court costs.

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

Worth seeing

  • Court column - rollo. Tuscan column 2.24 m high. Presumably erected in the 15th or 16th century at the current location, it was a sign of jurisdiction and communal independence. There is no evidence of its use as a pillory or execution site. In the middle of the twentieth century, the column was transformed into a calvary cross and moved near the Puente de San Andrés bridge. In 1990 the column was restored, freed from later attached decorations and advisory board and placed again in the original place.
  • Buildings on Calle Mayor and Calle Serapio Huici. Various palaces from the beginning of the 20th century, which are structural evidence of the speculations at that time. The Besta Jira dates from 1911 and was built by a middle-class Pamplona family who wanted a modern casino restaurant on site, and in 1915 it was bought by the Dominicans . Another interesting building is the Agricultural Dog School (Escuela de Peritos Agrícolas). The Navarre Landtag (Diputación Foral de Navarra) commissioned the architect José Yárnoz with the construction in 1912, which was actually intended to serve as a conference venue for the national assembly of winegrowers (Congreso Nacional de Viticultura), which was held on the occasion of the seven-hundredth anniversary of the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa should gather there.
  • Trinidad de Arre. Six-arch medieval bridge over the Río Ulzama and pilgrims 'hostel in a former Ermita de la Santísima Trinidad (Chapel of the Holy Trinity ), which also included a monastery and a pilgrims' hospice . The building preserves the apse of a church from the 13th century, of which there is no written evidence until the 16th century. The monastery was under the control of Roncesvalles Abbey .
  • Andrew's Church / Iglesia de San Andrés. The church was started in the middle of the 16th century in the Renaissance style. The modern building next to the town hall dates from the 20th century and also houses the simply built chapel "Capilla de la Soledad" with a round floor plan from the end of the 18th century.
  • Former El Batán mill. The differences in gradient of the Ría Ulzama in the municipality of Villavas were used by various water-powered mills from different industries. One of them, which had previously served as a grain and wool mill, restaurant, factory, liquorice mill, tanning mill and paper mill, has been restored and opened to the public as a museum.
  • Casa Motza. Renaissance palace from the 16th century, previously known as "Palacio de Andosilla" after the commissioner of the building, Pedro de Andosilla.
  • Miguel Indurain Monument - Escultura dedicada a Miguel Indurain
  • Graffiti walls - Murales juveniles. The local government is making some of the city's walls available for graffiti. Ditto she organizes workshops and a graffiti festival in which the participants reflect on topics such as social conditions, consumerism or sexism by means of graffiti on predetermined walls.

Fiestas

  • City Festival - Fiestas Mayores. One week before and after the first Sunday in October, in honor of the Virgin of the Rosary (Virgen del Rosario). During the festival there are various cultural offers and performances, ranging from children's games to rock concerts. On Tuesday there is a popular barbecue (costillada popular) in the Parque de Ribed, where mainly sheep and pork ribs are grilled, but sometimes more sophisticated dishes are served. The community organizes the barbecue facilities, bread and wine, while the residents bring the grilled food.

Because the festival is very well known and one of the last summer city festivals in this area, it each attracts a large number of participants from other places.

  • Villava Day - Día de Villava or Atarrabiako Eguna. On the first Sunday of September
  • Patron saint - Fiesta de San Andrés. November 30th, festival in honor of the city's patron, St. Andrew

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Villava-Atarrabia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ cf. Community website
  3. ↑ Article in Diario de Navarra: Recuerdo a los fusilados del 36. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 29, 2008 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.diariodenavarra.es
  4. ↑ Contribution from El Mundo. Retrieved May 6, 2009 (Spanish).
  5. ^ Local election results Villava 2007. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved May 6, 2009 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Noticias de Navarra: El alcalde de Villava coloca una ikurriña junto al Consistorio por orden del Pleno. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 3, 2008 ; Retrieved May 6, 2009 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Diario de Navarra: El alcalde de Villava iza la ikurriña en un mástil de 10 metros junto al Ayuntamiento: Pello Gurbindo (NaBai) la define como una bandera "muy sentida" en la villa. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 9, 2007 ; Retrieved May 6, 2009 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ Contribution to Diario de Noticias: El Batán de Villava recrea dos hitos históricos de la fábrica de paños y papel. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 8, 2009 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.diariodenoticias.com
  9. ↑ The commissioned expert for the true to original dismantling was David Alegría Suescun, who also published on the topic " Molino y batán de Villava-Atarrabia " (Ed. Consorcio del Parque Fluvial de la Comarca de Pamplona, ​​2006. ISBN 84-611-0776-4 )
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