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| San Sebastian Bay of the Conch
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San Sebastian (in Basque Donostia and officially Donostia-San Sebastian), coastal eminently tourist and commercial city located to the north of Spain, in Basque country. It is the capital of the historical territory of Guipúzcoa from 1854.En the period understood among 1880-1950, San Sebastian was the city of I par excellence vacation of the aristocracy: the Queen María Cristina, Victoria Eugenia, the King XIII Alfonso, Alba's Duchess..., what transformed it into one of the cities more important turísticamente of the country and with certain fame at European level.San Sebastian is the traditional name of the city in Spanish. Their origin is due to a monastery consecrated San Sebastian that was in the current location of the neighborhood of The Old one. The medieval village was founded by the Navarrese king Sancho the Sage toward 1180 in the proximities of the monastery and east settled down in it letter-populates it that the village called herself hence San Sebastian. As the document it was edited in Latin the name that he/she appears mentioned it is that of Sanctus Sebastianus that would evolve in romance until giving San Sebastian's name. San Sebastian has been traditionally the official name of the city up to 1980
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| Rentería (officially and in Basque Errenteria)
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Rentería (officially and in Basque Errenteria) is a municipality located in the northeastern quadrant of Guipúzcoa 7 km of San Sebastian, at 476 of Madrid and 10 of the frontier with France. The municipal term has a surface of 31 km², it limits to the north with Lezo, to the west with Hernani, Astigarraga and the neighborhood donostiarra of Rise, to the south and southeast with the Navarrese towns of it Claws and Goizueta respectively, to the east with Oyarzun and to the nor-northwest with the Bay of Passages. It belongs to the district of Oarsoaldea, together with the municipalities of Oyarzun, Passages and Lezo.Throughout their history Rentería has had diverse names.The village was founded in 1320 with the name of Villanueva of Oiarso, in the place where he/she was a small nucleus of population denominated prexistente Orereta. Oiarso is the name of the valley in which the foundation was pierced. At the moment that name has evolved and it is known as Oyarzun (in Basque Oiartzun) to the old valley of Oiarso.
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| Orio is a municipality of the province of Guipuzcoa
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Orio is a municipality of the county of Guipúzcoa, Basque country (Spain).Orio is a coastal municipality of fishing tradition. It is known to be the cradle of outstanding several Basque (as Jorge Oteiza or Benito Lertxundi) artists and for their great tradition rower.It is possible that the name of Orio is not more than a deformation of the river Oria in whose outlet the population is. The village was founded in the Half low Age the name of Villarreal of San Nicolás of Orio, but so long denomination is it was getting lost and the population became well-known simply as Orio. In a colloquial way and when speaking in Basque the population's name it is pronounced as Óriyo.
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| Oñate Sanctum of Our Lady of Aránzazu
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The village of Oñate (in Basque and officially Oñati) is a municipality of the county of Guipúzcoa, Basque country (Spain), pertenecienta to the district of High Deva.The name of Oñate (in Basque he/she is called Oñati) probably derives of the Basque oin it ties, translatable as port foot and he/she mentions to its position in a closed surrounded valley of mountains for almost all the sides.The Basque gentile oñatiarra is habitually also used in Castilian. Oñacino / to it is more used to refer to those in favor of the House of Oinaz in the Wars of Banderizos of the Half Age and the Rebirth. Colloquially it is also used txantxiku that means toad in the local Basque.
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| Mondragón Door of Devastate you
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The village of Mondragón (name Gascon, or Mondragon also known for you Raze yourself, name Basque previous of the town that there there was before the foundation of the same one, it is a municipality of the county of Guipúzcoa, Basque country (Spain), belonging to the district of High Deva. The official current name of the municipality is you Raze yourself edo Mondragon, translatable to the Castilian as you Raze yourself or Mondragón. This denomination of character salomónico settles a dispute that already goes back some how many decades behind and he/she settles down that the municipality in question calls himself so much you Raze yourself as Mondragón, in anyone of the two official (Castilian or Basque) languages. In spite of this, to practical effects it is usually considered you Raze yourself as the Basque name of the town and Mondragón like the Castilian; and they are usually used as such. In Basque it has also been used the form Mondragoe.The village of Mondragón was founded in 1260 by the Castilian king Alfonso X the Sage in the place where he/she was a name village Arresate or Raze you.
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