Labastida/Bastida

The presence of dolmens and neolithic cemeteries indicate the long human history of this region. An archeological site in Salinillas de Buradón shows evidence of a pre-Roman Celtic settlement of Berones, who migrated to the region in the 4th century BC.

The hermitage of Santa Lucia dates to the 9th century, while the necropolis of Remelluri, where some 300 tombs are carved out of bare rock, is thought to date to the 10th century. While the majority are Christian, Islamic burials also took place here, when the region was part of Moorish Al-Andalus. This Muslim presence diminished after the reconquista, when the village became part of the Kingdom of Navarre. From this period, during the so-called repoblación (repopulation), settlers arrived from the Christian kingdoms of Navarra and Castile, speaking Basque and Spanish respectively, while a Jewish community also continued living in the village, giving the name of the Jewish Quarter to the part of the town around Plaza del Olmo. Today wine cellars under this neighbourhood occupy the tunnels and caves where the Jewish community conducted their ceremonies privately.

In the medieval period, Labastida was a substantial fortified town. It occupied an important position close to the River Ebro and at a junction on routes between Burgos, Pamplona and the Basque coast, and as a result the town changed hands constantly between Navarra and Castile from the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Finally and definitively it became part of Álava in the 16th century.

It was in this period that the town found great wealth and prosperity. A large number of palaces were constructed in the Calle Mayor, where 29 stone coats of arms are still visible carved into their façades, as well as the new classical church, Our Lady of the Assumption, built in the 16th and 17th centuries and decorated in an opulent Baroque style.

Manuel Quintano (1756-1818), winemaker and resident of the town, is credited with bringing the Bordeaux winemaking style to La Rioja after studying in France. In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte passed through Labastida, where he stayed at the Paternina Palace.

•Remelluri

•Lagar rupestre de Marate

•San Kristobalgo labar-dolarea

•Lagar rupestre de Fonsagrada

•Lagar de Las Piletas

•Sepulturas del Bardallo

•Ermita y necrópolis de la Fonsagrada

•Lagar rupestre de Montebuena sur

•Toloñoko ate - Puerta de Toloño

•Larrazuria Ate - Puerta de Larrazuria

•Aquaduct

•La Estancia

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción: construida en el siglo XVI, con interior barroco, con vistas a la plaza principal, la plaza de la Paz. La sacristía barroca se añadió en el siglo XVIII. La torre tiene 54 metros de altura.​

La ermita del Santo Cristo, la iglesia más antigua de la localidad, se encuentra en su punto más alto. Data del siglo XII.​

Casa consistorial, este palacio es hoy el ayuntamiento, construido entre 1730 y 1745.​

Murallas

Palacios en la calle Mayor​

Arco del Toloño y Arco de Larrazuría, las dos puertas de entrada a la localidad que aún se conservan.​

Parque de San Ginés, desde donde se pueden disfrutar de numerosas rutas de senderismo en la sierra de Toloño, incluyendo el sendero a la cima y el Monasterio abandonado de Santa María de Toloño.

Acueducto de San Andrés de Muga

•GR 99 Camino natural del Ebro (GR 99)

•Camino de Santiago Vasco del Interior

•Peñacerrada-Urizaharra - Toloño (PR-A 79)

•Sendero de la Ermita de Toloño (PR-LR 51)

•Dólmenes y Ermitas (PR-LR 50)

•Camino natural de Ebro - Tramo central (GR 99)

•Domingo de Salazar, obispo español

•Ignacio María Cereceda, artista y periodista español

•Manuel Quintano

Alcaldía: Laura Pérez Borinaga

Web oficial: http://www.labastida-bastida.org/

2 paradas de autobús en el municipio:

•Labastida

•Farmacia Carmen Lacuesta

•Bastidako Osasun Zentroa

•Consultorio médico