Plaza de la Virgen Blanca
Plaza de la Virgen Blanca is one of the oldest meeting points in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country of Spain. In the middle of it there is the monument to the Battle of Vitoria, which took place in 1813 during the Napoleonic Wars.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: D.Rovchak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: square in Victoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
- Also known as: “Andre Maria Zuriaren plaza / Plaza de la Virgen Blanca” and “Virgen Blanca Square”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de España and Los Arquillos.
Plaza de España
Square
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Plaza de España or Plaza Nueva is a square in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984.
Los Arquillos
Los Arquillos is an 18th-century structure located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. It was architecturally designed to link the old part of the town situated on the higher ground with the new part of the town then under construction on lower ground. Los Arquillos is situated 110 metres northeast of Plaza de la Virgen Blanca.
Church of San Miguel
Church
Photo: Zarateman, Public domain.
The Church of San Miguel is a church located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1995. The retable of the church is a baroque altarpiece, it is one of the finest works by Gregorio Fernández and his workshop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alde Zaharra and Babesgabeak.
Plaza de la Virgen Blanca
- Category: square
- Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba / Álava, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.84658° or 42° 50′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.67338° or 2° 40′ 24″ westElevation
528 metres (1,732 feet)Open location code
8CJVR8WG+JJOpenStreetMap ID
way 23744162OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrian
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Plaza de la Virgen Blanca” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Andra Mari Zuriaren enparantza”
- Basque: “Andra Mari Zuriaren plaza”
- Basque: “Andre Maria Zuriaren plaza”
- Chinese: “白色圣母广场”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان فيرجن بلانكا”
- Esperanto: “Placo de la Blanka Virgulino”
- French: “place de la Virgen Blanca”
- French: “Place de la Virgen Blanca”
- Japanese: “ビルヘン・ブランカ広場”
- Spanish: “plaza de la Virgen Blanca”
- Spanish: “Plaza de la Virgen Blanca”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Plaza de la Virgen Blanca”. Photo: D.Rovchak, CC BY-SA 4.0.