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Briviesca is a municipality and a Spanish city located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, head of the judicial district of Briviesca, capital of the comarca of La Bureba and province of Burgos, autonomous community of Castile and León. According to the demographic data of 2017, the municipality has 6,861 inhabitants, being the 4th most populated in the province. The municipality of Briviesca is made up of five towns: Briviesca (seat or capital), Cameno, Quintanillabón, Revillagodos and Valdazo.
The first settlements date back to the 1st century BC, when the Autrigones, that extended by all the current region of the Bureba and the Upper Ebro valley, established here their capital. Subsequently Briviesca, by then called Virovesca, was already considered an important nucleus of population, where the Romans inhabited in the crossroads of two important Roman roads.
This location, and the boom, in the Middle Ages, of the Camino de Santiago, made Briviesca grow little by little until it reached its maximum splendor in the Renaissance. Nowadays, its location halfway between Miranda de Ebro and Burgos has contributed its industrial and commercial development.
Briviesca has wide green spaces open to fields and mountains, as well as a prominent Monumental Complex with several BICs: the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor; the imposing Monastery of Santa Clara, within there is an important Gothic cloister; the cloister of the "Hospitalillo"; the Plaza Mayor, typical Castilian; its houses and palaces, as well as the Church of San Martín. Close to Briviesca the Santa Casilda's sanctuary is also found.
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La excolegiata de Santa María la Mayor es un templo católico, hoy rebajado al rango de iglesia y clausurado al culto, de la localidad de Briviesca (Burgos, Castilla y León, España).
IglesiaBien de interés cultural
El monasterio de Santa Clara es un antiguo cenobio de monjas Clarisas situado en la localidad de Briviesca (Burgos, Castilla y León, España). El conjunto monumental se compone del convento propiamente dicho, más la iglesia, un hospital y la denominada casa solariega.
MonasterioBien de interés cultural
La iglesia de San Martín es un templo parroquial católico de la localidad de Briviesca (Burgos, Castilla y León, España). El edificio combina los estilos arquitectónicos Gótico, Renacentista y Barroco.
Iglesia
IglesiaBien de interés cultural
Conjunto históricoBien de interés cultural
TorreBien de interés cultural
Palacio
Palacio
Iglesia
Iglesia
Muralla
Monuments from Wikidata; summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited to their authors.
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