Theme Week La Rioja
Monday, 26 January 2015 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Theme Weeks
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Autumn in La Rioja © flickr.com – Jesus Solana/cc-by-2.0
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La Rioja is an autonomous community and a province in Spain, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is
Logroño . It covers part of the Ebro valley towards its north and the Iberian Range in the south. The community is a single province, so there is no County Council and it is organized into 174 municipalities.
The area was once occupied by pre-Roman Berones, Pelendones and Basques. After partial recapture from the Muslims in the early tenth century, the region became part of the Kingdom of Pamplona , later being incorporated into Castile after a century and a half of disputes. From the eighteenth century the Rioja region remained divided between the provinces of Burgos and Soria, until in 1833 the province of Logroño was created, changing the name of the province to La Rioja in 1980 as a prelude to its constitution under a single provincial autonomous community following the adoption of the Estatuto de San Millán in 1982. The first written reference in which the name Rioja appears is in the Miranda de Ebro forum in 1099.
Valle de San Millán de la Cogolla - Monasterio de San Millán de Yuso al fondo © Cenobio/cc-by-sa-4.0
La Rioja is known for its production of
Rioja DOCa wines . Rioja is made from grapes grown not only in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, but also in parts of
Navarre and the
Basque province of
Álava . Rioja is further subdivided into three zones: Rioja Alta, Rioja Baja and Rioja Alavesa. Many wines have traditionally blended fruit from all three regions though there is a slow growth in single-zone wines.
The harvesting of wine in La Rioja has an ancient lineage with origins dating back to the
Phoenicians and the
Celtiberians . The earliest written evidence of the existence of the grape in La Rioja dates to 873, in the form of a document from the Public Notary of San Millán dealing with a donation to the San Andrés de Trepeana (
Treviana ) Monastery. As was the case in many Mediterranean lands in mediaeval times, monks were the main practitioners of winemaking in La Rioja and great advocates of its virtues. In the thirteenth century,
Gonzalo de Berceo , clergyman of the Suso Monastery in
San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja) and Spain’s earliest known poet, mentions the wine in some of his works.
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