Arriaga is a depopulated '' concejo'' in the municipality of

Vitoria-Gasteiz Vitoria-Gasteiz (; ; also historically spelled Vittoria in English) is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country and of the provinces of Spain, province of Álava in northern Spain. I ...

, province of

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, Basque Country, Spain. It has been absorbed into the city and is now part of the neighborhood of Lakua-Arriaga.

History

The first written reference to Arriaga is found in the ' of 1025, a document from the

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of the

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. The village was notable for its proximity to the , where the institutions that ruled

conducted meetings. The '' Brotherhood of Arriaga'', as it came to be known, existed until its dissolution in 1332. Arriaga came under the jurisdiction of

already in 1258, when the Brotherhood of Arriaga relinquished several hamlets to

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, in exchange of keeping their privileges. Despite this, Arriaga continued to host the meetings of the brotherhood. In 1813, during the

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, there was fighting in Arriaga for control of the bridge over the

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. The construction of the modern neighborhood of Lakua-Arriaga started in the 1970s. The area has since been fully integrated into the city. Aside from the parish church, only two buildings remain in the location of the hamlet. The hamlet has been officially depopulated since 2003. Due to this, the initiated in 2016 the process to dissolve the '' concejo''. However, as of 2023, Arriaga was still listed as a . In March 2024, the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz initiated the procedure to formally dissolve the ''concejo'' of Arriaga.

Heritage

* The was probably built during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It was substantially reformed by Olaguíbel in the eighteenth century. * The Chapel of San Juan de Arriaga was the place where members of the Brotherhood of Arriaga swore their oaths. The current building dates from the 1940s.

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* {{Authority control Concejos in Vitoria-Gasteiz Former populated places in Spain