Yécora/Iekora

Yécora, kent as Iekora an aw, is a toun an municipality in the province o Álava, in the Basque Kintra, northren Spain.

Geografie

Yecora haes a aurie o 18.8 km ² an a population o 299 indwallers (2008). Yecora is situatit in soothren Álava, athin the wine region o Rioja Alavesa, on the mairch wi Navarre, close tae La Rioja. Yecora is at 694m abuin sea level, at the fuit o the muntains o Cantabrie an Codes.

The adjacent municipalities are Lapoblación tae the north; Oyón-Oion tae the sooth-east; an Lanciego/Lantziego tae the wast. The caipital o the region, Laguardia, is 15 km tae the wast. The provincial caipital, Vitoria-Gasteiz is 50 km awa. The ceety o Logroño, caipital o La Rioja is 13 km tae the sooth.

The nearest veelages are Lanciego an Lapoblación.

Economy an society

Yécora is a landwart commonty, wi 37% o the wirkforce wirkin in agricultur an wine production. Thare are 4 wineries in the veelage, (John Campinún Archived 2014-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Vallarmen, an Jalon Ibalonja Solar) that produce Rioja as well as a cooperative, St. Sixtus, which produces wines an Valsierra Campolengo.

The veelage haes a soummin puil, opened in 2006, a halth centre, leisur centre an auditorium.

History

The veelage is first recordit in the 11t hunderyear cartular o San Millán unner the name Equora or Ecora. It wis then kent as Laguardia; in 1669 the king Charles II grantit the title o toun. The commonty later adoptit the offeecial name Yécora (or Iekora).

Heritage

Yécora haes mony Renaissance biggins. The maist prominent biggin is the kirk o San Juan Bautista, biggit in Gothic an Renaissance style. It haes a 14t-hunderyear square touer, a Renaissance façade decoratit wi angels an twa columns wi Corinthian caipitals.

Ootside the toun is the shrine o Santa María de Bercijana which wis restored in 1984.

Thare is a medieval spring kent as the Fuente Vieja.

Festivals an tradeetions

Several processions are held durin the year at the Bercijana shrine. The maist important festivals are Santo Domingo in Mey an the hairst thanksgivin in August.

• In Mey, celebratin the day o Santo Domingo, the fowk process frae the chapel at Bercijana, carryin the image o the Virgin o Bercijana tae the Kirk o St. John the Baptist in Yécora.
• In late August, durin the hairst festival, the fowk cairy the statue o the patron saunt o Yécora, accompaniet bi bagpipes an dance.

Thir celebrations, thegether wi a tradeetional pilgrimage tae San Tirso in the Sierra de Cantabria in Juin, are uisually held annually in the toun.

Freemit airtins

• YÉCORA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spaingie)