Araba / Álava
Álava or Araba, officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: province of Spain with 332,000 residents
- Description: province of Basque Country, Spain
- Also known as: “Alava”, “Álava”, “Álava Province”, “Álava-Araba”, “Araba”, “Araba / Alava”, “Gasteiz province”, “Province of Alava”, “Vitoria province”, and “Vitoria-Gasteiz Province”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iruña-Veleia and Circus of Iruña-Veleia.
Iruña-Veleia
Photo: Txo, Public domain.
Veleia was a Roman town in Hispania, now located in the province of Álava, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. The site is located in the municipality of Iruña de Oca, 10 kilometers west of Vitoria.
Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón
Sports venue
The Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón, also known as Instalaciones de Ibaia after the name of its semi-rural location, is the primary training ground of Spanish professional football club Deportivo Alavés, located in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vitoria-Gasteiz and Zabalgana.
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Photo: Guyletsbuild, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vitoria-Gasteiz is in the heart of the Basque Country in Spain. The old town has some of the best preserved medieval streets and plazas in the region and it is one of very few cities with two cathedrals.
Zabalgana
Suburb
Photo: Basotxerri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vitoria-Gasteiz is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, and the Lehendakari's official residency. Zabalgana is situated 4 km east of Araba / Álava.
Sansomendi
Suburb
Photo: Zarateman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sansomendi is a suburb, which is situated 5 km northeast of Araba / Álava.
Araba / Álava
- Category: Basque historical territory
- Location: Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Araba / Álava” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Álava”
- Albanian: “Provinca Álava”
- Arabic: “ألافا”
- Arabic: “ألبة”
- Aragonese: “Alaba”
- Aragonese: “Alava”
- Armenian: “Ալավա”
- Asturian: “Álava”
- Asturian: “Araba”
- Asturian: “Áraba”
- Asturian: “provincia d’Álava”
- Asturian: “provincia d’Araba”
- Azerbaijani: “Alava vilayəti”
- Basque: “Alaba herria”
- Basque: “Araba”
- Belarusian: “Алава”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Алава”
- Bengali: “এলাভা”
- Breton: “Araba”
- Bulgarian: “Алава”
- Catalan: “Àlaba”
- Catalan: “Araba/Álava”
- Catalan: “província d’Àlaba”
- Catalan: “Província d’Àlaba”
- Cebuano: “Araba / Álava”
- Cebuano: “Araba/Álava”
- Chinese: “Álava”
- Chinese: “阿拉瓦省”
- Croatian: “Alava”
- Croatian: “Álava”
- Czech: “Álava”
- Danish: “Álava”
- Dimli (individual language): “Álava (wılayet)”
- Dimli (individual language): “Álava”
- Dutch: “Álava”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Alavo”
- Estonian: “Araba provints”
- Estonian: “Araba”
- Finnish: “Álava”
- French: “Álava / Araba”
- French: “Álava-Araba”
- French: “Alava”
- French: “Álava”
- French: “Araba”
- French: “province de Gasteiz”
- French: “province de Vitoria-Gasteiz”
- French: “province de Vitoria”
- Galician: “Álava”
- Galician: “Araba”
- Galician: “Áraba”
- Georgian: “ალავა”
- German: “Álava”
- Greek: “Άλαβα”
- Gujarati: “અલાવા”
- Hebrew: “אלווה”
- Hindi: “अलवा प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “अलवा”
- Hungarian: “Araba”
- Indonesian: “Álava”
- Irish: “Álava”
- Irish: “Araba”
- Italian: “Álava”
- Japanese: “アラバ”
- Japanese: “アラバ県”
- Kannada: “ಅಲಾವಾ”
- Kazakh: “Алава”
- Korean: “아라바도”
- Korean: “알라바주”
- Ladin: “Álava”
- Ladino: “Alava”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Alava”
- Latin: “Alava”
- Latvian: “Alavas province”
- Lithuanian: “Alavos provincija”
- Livvi: “Araba”
- Luxembourgish: “Álava”
- Macedonian: “Алава”
- Malay: “Álava”
- Marathi: “अलावा”
- Mazanderani: “آلابا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Álava”
- Mingrelian: “ალავა”
- Northern Frisian: “Álava”
- Northern Frisian: “Araba”
- Northern Luri: “آلابا”
- Northern Sami: “Álava eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Álava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Álava”
- Norwegian: “Álava”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alaba”
- Ossetian: “Алавæ”
- Pampanga: “Álava”
- Persian: “استان آلابا”
- Polish: “Álava”
- Polish: “Araba”
- Portuguese: “Álava”
- Romanian: “Provincia Álava”
- Russian: “Алава”
- Scots: “Álava”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Álava”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Алава”
- Serbian: “Провинција Алава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Álava”
- Sicilian: “Álava”
- Sinhala: “අලවා”
- Slovenian: “Alava”
- Slovenian: “Álava”
- Slovenian: “Araba”
- Slovenian: “provinca Gasteiz”
- Slovenian: “provinca Vittoria”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلابا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Álava”
- Spanish: “provincia de Álava”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Álava”
- Spanish: “provincia de Vitoria”
- Swahili: “Álava”
- Swedish: “Álava”
- Tamil: “அல்லவா”
- Telugu: “అలావా”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอาลาบา”
- Turkish: “Álava ili”
- Turkish: “Álava”
- Ukrainian: “Алава”
- Urdu: “آلابا”
- Uzbek: “Álava”
- Venetian: “Araba”
- Vietnamese: “Álava”
- Waray (Philippines): “Álava”
- Welsh: “Araba”
- Wu Chinese: “阿拉瓦省”
- Yue Chinese: “阿拉瓦省”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Aríñez and Lermanda.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mendizorrotza Stadium and Prado Park.
Basque Country: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Bilbao, San Sebastián, Vitoria-Gasteiz, and Guernica.
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