19 Sights in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (with Map and Images)

The Teatro Principal is a theatre located at 29 Calle de San Prudencio, in Vitoria. It was devised by Cesáreo Iradier, who was inspired by the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. It was inaugurated in 1918 under the name of Nuevo Teatro de Vitoria. The opening of the theatre was possible thanks to the contributions of the citizens of Vitoria with the purchase of shares. In 1961 it was renamed as it is today, in memory of the old theatre building that had stood in the same place between 1822 and 1914. For many decades it was used as a cinema. In 1992 it was renovated by the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Álava and the City Council of Vitoria.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country-Artium Museoa is a contemporary art museum located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the province of Álava in northern Spain. Designed by the architect José Luis Caton, it is owned by the Provincial Council of Álava and opened 26 April 2002 and its director is Daniel Castillejo. The Museum was a created by the initiative of the Provincial Council of Alava, which is the owner of most of the works that are in the museum, and it's the owner of the building too. The aim of this museum is to develop the critical view of the society and to make Alava be associated with art and culture.

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La Florida is a park in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain. It was built between 1820 and 1855 in neoclassical style by the architects Angel Chavez, Juan De Velasco, Ramón Ortés De Velasco and Manuel Arana. The birth of Florida is dated 1820 when they built the existing ring that surrounds the music kiosk. For the actual 32,454 square meters land used the former convent of Santa Clara, and as much as planners have insisted later, there is nothing similar in the new green spaces in Vitoria.

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The Armoury Museum of Álava, located on the Paseo de Fray Francisco and adjacent to the Palace of Ajuria Enea in the city of Vitoria (Álava) Spain, monographically exhibits weapons, uniforms and various objects related to the war activities of various periods and cultures, from Prehistory to the beginning of the twentieth century. Of its sections, the one dedicated to the Battle of Vitoria in 1813, in the context of the Spanish War of Independence, is particularly interesting.

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The Convent of Santa Cruz is located between Calle de la Pintorería, Calle de San Vicente de Paul and the canton of Santa María, within the historic centre of the Spanish city of Vitoria. Its architecture has Gothic-Renaissance characteristics and since its foundation in the sixteenth century it has been inhabited without interruption by a community of cloistered Dominican nuns, being the oldest preserved monastery in Vitoria and with religious life.

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The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art of Álava is located in the ambulatory of the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate in the city of Vitoria, Álava. Its access is through the south door of the transept of the Cathedral, facing Monsignor Cadena y Eleta Street and the Florida Park. Since July 2022 it has a new official website with useful, easily accessible information, with historical and didactic data thanks to a very intuitive navigation.

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The Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz is a sanctuary located in Argandoña within the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain. It is surrounded with green forests and it has the view of the entire province as it is located in a small hill 9 km away from the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Here stands the patroness of Álava. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.

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The Museum of Natural Sciences of Álava is located in the Torre de Doña Ochanda, an old medieval defensive building in the city of Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain. It exhibits important geological, botanical and zoological collections, highlighting for its interest the finds of fossil amber in the province, of great value for its biological inclusions from the Cretaceous period.

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The convent of San Antonio, whose true dedication is La Purísima Concepción, is located in the pedestrian Plaza del General Loma in the Spanish city of Vitoria. A building built in the seventeenth century in the classicist Baroque style, it is inhabited by a community of Poor Clare nuns, the church functioning as a parish of regular worship.

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The Church of San Vicente de Arriaga is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the city of Vitoria, Spain. It was built between the 15th and 16th centuries in the Gothic-Renaissance style, although externally neoclassical architecture predominates, the result of important additions and reforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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The Cathedral of María Inmaculada de Vitoria (Basque: Maria Sortzez Garbiaren katedrala, Spanish: Catedral de María Inmaculada de Vitoria, usually known as "The new Cathedral" is a Neogothic-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country, Spain. It was built in the first half of the 20th century.

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The Church of San Pedro Apóstol is a medieval church located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. It was built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries as a fortress church due to its location next to the city walls. The construction of the current tower started in 1708, while the southern portico was added in 1897.

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The Museum of Fine Arts of Álava is located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, Spain. The museum is dedicated to Spanish art from the 18th to the 20th century, and particularly to Basque art from the 1850–1950 period. Opened in 1942, it is located at the Augustin Zulueta Palace.

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The Nuestra Señora de la Asunción church in Lasarte, Vitoria is an advanced Gothic building with ribbed vaults. In the nineteenth century, the walls were mastered, and a strong denticulated cornice was built, which rests on pilasters with composite capitals.

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The Church of El Carmen is a Catholic church integrated into the Convent of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers of Vitoria. Built in a modern neoclassical style and consecrated in 1900, it is located on Manuel Iradier Street in the capital of Alava.

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The Cathedral of Santa María de Vitoria is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931 and a World Heritage Site in 2015.

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The Church of Santa Maria is a Catholic parish temple of Vitoria built in Gothic style in the 14th century and annex to the Cathedral of Santa Maria, or Old Cathedral, from which the Chapel of Santiago was originally.

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The Church of Our Lady of the Forsaken is a Catholic parish temple in the city of Vitoria. It is a modern construction, part of whose interior furniture comes from the collapse of the Alavés people of Galarreta.

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The Tower of Mendoza is a tower located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984. The tower is strategically located between the roads of Old Castile and the Ebro river.

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