The hermitage of San Juan or Santo Cristo de los Remedios is a beautiful building with a centralised structure located in the centre of the historic quarter of Briones. It was built between 1737 and 1748 on the site of the old hermitage of San Juan. On the façade there is a niche with the image of San Juan, the patron saint of the original church. The hermitage we can see today was built by the master builder Juan Bautista Arbaizar, assisted by his son-in-law Ignacio de Elejalde. It is remarkable for its octagonal plan inscribed in a rectangle and its large central dome. Inside, altarpieces, paintings and carvings from the period are preserved. It is delimited by cylindrical buttresses and has a lintelled entrance with a mixtilinear moulding between Corinthian columns that support the entablature. In the second section there is a niche between pilasters with the typical mixtilinear moulding finials. The image that guards this niche reminds us that the chapel was built on top of the previous ruined chapel of San Juan Bautista. The façade ends with the single-egg belfry that crowns the whole. The three altarpieces in the chancel are 18th century Rococo style, with images […]

An 18th century palace which during the civil war was the headquarters of the Italian troops and which today, magnificently restored, houses a small hotel, the Hospedería Señorío de Briñas, with all the nobility and splendour of its past. The hospedería has 20 rooms decorated in both avant-garde and traditional styles, ranging from singles, doubles, triples and suites. There are also meeting rooms for up to 20 people. The hotel is located in a small village bathed by the river Ebro, Briñas, where you can see a large number of ancestral homes with coats of arms on their facades. Surrounded by vineyards and surrounded by the foothills of the Cantabria mountain range. Well communicated and only 3 km. from Haro, where you can find the best centenary wineries in the area.

Brands Covilda, Señorío de la Estrella, Dominio de la Salle, Valprado, Dominio de Valprado, Aritxeta. Bodegas Señorío de la Estrella was founded in 1987, 25 years ago, on the initiative of a group of farmers, mostly from the town of San Asensio, and with the aim of responding to the economic changes and marketing needs of grape and wine production in Doc Rioja. Winery visits

Brands Muñarrate Red, Muñarrate Rosé, Muñarrate White, Solabal Crianza, Solabal Reserva, Esculle de Solabal, Vala de Solabal. This young winery located in the heart of Sonsierra Riojana, has modern facilities and the latest technological advances without forgetting the traditional Rioja winemaking techniques. Visits to the winery

Marks Solana de Ramírez, Valsarte. The Solana Ramírez Ruiz winery is a family winery located in Ábalos – Rioja Alta, one of the most prized areas of the appellation, dedicated for several generations to the cultivation of vines and the production and ageing of its wines. Visits to the winery Visit Solana de Ramirez exclusively with the help of the winery family itself, learn about the world of wine and end the experience with a wonderful wine tasting accompanied by a “Riojano brunch”. Cheer up, it will be an unforgettable experience.

Brands Sonsierra, Androsela, Pagos de la Sonsierra, Sonsierra Perfume Bodegas Sonsierra was born in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, in the heart of a region with unique characteristics for vine growing, where the Tempranillo grape finds its ideal habitat. In 1962, more than 240 winegrowers decided to pool their 430 hectares of vineyards, making a long-standing desire of the village’s farmers come true: the creation of a cooperative in which to produce their own wines. This is how Bodegas Sonsierra began, and after several generations cultivating their own vineyards with practices perfected over time, they have managed to produce wines with their own identity, a reflection of the landscape and the centuries-old winemaking tradition of our region. In Sonsierra they were the first cooperative in Rioja to start selling bottled wines and to focus on the quality and uniqueness of the exceptional vineyards of the Rioja Alta sub-area, being pioneers in indicating this origin on the labels.  The innovative spirit is one of the hallmarks of their identity and continues today with projects such as the Perfume de Sonsierra wine, which has revolutionised the sector. At the winery they make single-varietal wines that begin to be made in the vineyard, […]

The parish church is a building in honour of Saint Thomas the Apostle and was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on 4 June 1931. It is located at the foot of the hill of La Mota, the primitive nucleus of the town, currently known as “La Atalaya”, and was built on top of an earlier building made of ashlar stone. The German “hallen kirche” or hall plan is divided into three naves of equal height without transept with fifteen star-shaped ribbed vaults and different geometric arches over pointed arches and attached columns and pilasters. Inside, the choir and the altarpiece stand out. In the choir we can contemplate the seating from the end of the 17th century and the organ from 1798 by Domingo Garagalza and the great altarpiece of the main altar is the largest in the whole of La Rioja, dating from 1730 and was made of polychrome wood with great decoration that gives us the sensation of filling the whole space, the “Horror Vacui”. On the outside, it is worth highlighting the main doorway under an arch with scenes of Calvary and imagery of the Apostles and the Eternal Father together with the coats of arms […]

Like Sajazarra and Villaseca, Castilseco is located on the banks of the river Roganto and its name is related to the drying up of the marshy areas of the river in the 11th and 12th centuries, when it changed its name from Castriello to Castello Sicco or Castilseco. Construction of the church seems to have begun at the beginning of the 13th century, at least as far as the presbytery is concerned, and continued in another building stage with the nave. The church consists of a nave, an apse and an apse, the first two separated by a triumphal arch over which rises a belfry with a single opening. Another belfry with two openings rises above the west gable. On the outside, the apse is divided into five bays by four columns attached to a high plinth, which end in capitals with vegetal decoration, except for the second, which ends in a capital with two crowned heads. The carving of the faces, hair and expression anticipates Gothic aesthetics. The three central panels are the only ones with windows. The entire apse is crossed by two imposts, a chequered one at the start of the windows and a plain one that […]

It has an 11th century Romanesque apse, one of the oldest in the area. It preserves works of great value such as a Gothic crucifix and has been registered as an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Monument since 25th November 1980. The church has undergone several stages of construction from the primitive building of the late 11th or early 12th century, which consisted of a nave, a presbytery and an apse. Today it is only possible to see the apse from the outside, which still has the two capitals of the columns (possibly free-standing) that divided it into three sections, and the corbels that show motifs such as the sun and the moon, male and female faces and various animals (eagles, snakes, etc.). From the following construction stage, which consisted of the construction of a portico at the foot of the church and which took place in the middle of the 12th century, only one of the arches that serves as a shutter to the present-day narthex and another one that has been blinded are preserved. Still in the Romanesque period, in order to give the church the status of an abbey, two naves were built attached […]

Temple with an elongated ground plan, with a simple rectangular roof, narrower than the base, with straight walls devoid of buttresses. On the east wall there is a lobed rose window. Both in its forms and in its doorway with a very acute arch, an advanced chronology of the 13th century can be appreciated, in a style of transition from Romanesque to Gothic. The eaves are supported by an interesting display of corbels, such as a lizard, a pair of quadrupeds, a man and woman paired together or a knight on his mount.

The Fortress Tower of Baños de Rioja was one of a series of fortresses that were scattered throughout the upper Rioja region to protect against raids and sieges at the time. At the beginning of the year 1200 (13th century), the López de Haro family, owners of the lordship of Vizcaya and founders of the town of Bilbao, ordered the construction of this fortress in Baños de Rioja. It originally had two towers, a wall, moat and defensive bastions and was topped with battlements. The keep, which is the one that remains standing today, has been declared a historical heritage site under Law 16/1985. Its characteristics correspond to the prototype of the Gothic tower in the region. It has thick ashlar walls (1.70 m thick), a rectangular floor plan (9.75 x 8 m), and is 19 m high. It still has all of its original arrow slits on the ground and second floors, windows with semicircular arches with stone seats on the sides on the first and third floors, and windows with mullioned windows on the fourth floor, as well as part of the mullioned windows of the defensive balcony on the first floor. Diego López III de Haro was […]

Brands Tarón, Beso de Sirena and Pantocrátor. Since 1961, BODEGAS TARÓN has brought together more than 200 producer members, with some 700 hectares of vineyards spread between Cuzcurrita, Sajazarra, Tirgo and Villaseca, in the heart of the Rioja Alta. Our wines, made from a selection of the best grapes, maintain the legacy of generations of winegrowers and a unique territory. Winery visits