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Cover of the 1761 book entitled Historia del venerable, y antiquissimo Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, in the province of La Rioja, by Benito Rubio. [1]The etymology of the toponym Rioja, which is named after the autonomous community of La Rioja and which inherited lands populated by people from La Rioja in the past, such as the province of La Rioja and its capital in Argentina, a ...
The etymology of the toponym Rioja is complex and has been much discussed. The main theories point to different origins: the traditional popular one that makes it correspond to the river Oja, the one that points to the term Rivalia that would be translated as "land of streams", the one that points as germ a nominal tautology in the term rivo Ohia that would mean "river of fluvial bed"; and the ...
Rioja (pronounced) is a wine region in Spain, with denominación de origen calificada (D.O.Ca., "Qualified Designation of Origin," the highest category in Spanish wine regulation). Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava. Rioja is further subdivided into three ...
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University of La Rioja; Etymology of La Rioja; Rioja, Almería, Spain; Rioja Province (Peru) Rioja District, one of the districts of Rioja Province; Rioja, Peru, the capital of the Rioja Province; La Rioja, Argentina. La Rioja Province, Argentina, the province of which the Argentine city of La Rioja is the capital of. National University of La ...
Elciego (Basque: Eltziego) is a town and municipality located at the southern end of the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.. This town lies in the world-famous Rioja wine-production region, and is home to the architecturally cutting-edge Hotel Marqués de Riscal, opened in 2006, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry.
Aragonese jota dancers. The jota (pronounced [1]) is a genre of music and the associated dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon.It varies by region, having a characteristic form in Aragon (where it is the most important [1]), Mallorca, Catalonia, León, Castile, Navarre, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia, La Rioja, Murcia and Eastern Andalusia.
Armiger: La Rioja: Adopted: 1985: Crest: Spanish Royal Crown: Shield: Per pale 1 or, a cross of St. James gules between two escallops argent fimbriated gules, in base a mount vert; 2 gules a castle, on a bridge, or on a river barry wavy argent and azure; all within a bordure azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or.