La villa de San Vicente de la Sonsierra

Heras y Núñez, María Ángeles de las

Publication year:

1996

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-89516-06-5

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Summary

The town of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, a Rioja town attache to the kingdom of Panplona-Navarra for most part of the Middle Ages was already documented by the year 919. Since 1.172, when it was granted a regional law by Sancho VI, the town became a strategic bastion. The ground plan of this fortress-town is organized into three graded precints which are adapted to the topography ot the hill on which the town lies