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La Bañeza () is a municipality located in the
province of León León (, ; ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the c ...
,
Castile and León Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...
, Spain. According to the 2010
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
( INE), the municipality had a population of 11,050 inhabitants. It is the capital of the region of
Tierra de La Bañeza La Tierra de La Bañeza is a Leonese comarca or historical region whose capital is the city of La Bañeza. Minor comarcas La Tierra de La Bañeza has four minor comarcas: *La Vega del Órbigo-Tuerto, including La Bañeza, three municipalities l ...
. Located in a region originally inhabited by the
Astures The Astures or Asturs, also named Astyrs, were the Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwest area of Hispania that now comprises almost the entire modern autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, the modern province of León, and t ...
population its territory was a part of Conventus Asturum during the Roman times. The city was founded in the 9th century by conde Gatón from two small villages San Pedro de Périx and Bani Eiza. La Bañeza hosted a marquis in the modern age and, in the end of the 19th century, was transformed by the arrival of the railroad in 1896. A year earlier, in 1895, Queen Regent
Maria Christina of Austria Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria (; 21 July 1858 – 6 February 1929) was Queen of Spain as the second wife of Alfonso XII. She was queen regent during the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death in No ...
gives the title of city. Tourist attractions include the churches of San Salvador and Santa María, as well as several celebrations during the year, of which some of the more important are the Carnivals,
Holy Week Holy Week () commemorates the seven days leading up to Easter. It begins with the commemoration of Triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, marks the betrayal of Jesus on Spy Wednesday (Holy Wednes ...
, and the motorbike race in August, the La Bañeza Grand Prix, one of the last urban motor-races in the world.


See also

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Tierra de La Bañeza La Tierra de La Bañeza is a Leonese comarca or historical region whose capital is the city of La Bañeza. Minor comarcas La Tierra de La Bañeza has four minor comarcas: *La Vega del Órbigo-Tuerto, including La Bañeza, three municipalities l ...
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Carnival of La Bañeza The Carnival of La Bañeza (also called winter festivals, carnivals, the run of carnival, antruejo), in the province of Leon, is a festival declared of national tourist interest that began to gain importance and fame at the beginning of the 20th ...
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Kingdom of León The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 when the Christian princes of Kingdom of Asturias, Asturias along the Bay of Biscay, northern coast of the peninsula ...
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Leonese language Leonese (''llionés, ḷḷionés, lionés'') is a set of vernacular Romance languages, Romance language varieties spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León (historical region), León in Spain (the modern provi ...
* La Bañeza Grand Prix


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Carnival of La Bañeza.

La Bañeza.
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