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Arriaga-Lakua was a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain. Nowadays Arriaga-Lakua is a quater of Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Geographical features
The quarter is located in the same place the village was at a time. Approximately 2.5km from the city center and next to the Zadorras banks. Only Abetxuko is located further north than Lakua.

History
The first time Arriaga is named in written fonts is in a document from 1025 in the cartulary of San Millán de la Cogolla also known as Reja de San Millán

The importance of the village consist on the proximity to a place called Campo de Lakua (Field of Lakua, in english) in which the institutions that ruled people from Álava used to have meetings. The joint institution that governed the Lordship of Alava and which brought together the nobles of Alava received the name of Brotherhood of Arriaga.

The village of Arriaga is one of the ancient villages of Vitoria-Gasteiz, which become to depend on the main city at an early age. In 1258 when the Voluntaria Entrega was produced, saing that the Brotherhood of Arriaga led their power over the Lordshio of Álava to Alfonso XI, the king of Castilla, in exchange of mantaining their privileges. 8 villages where given, Arriaga and the citatel of Vitoria included.

Time after that Arriaga still was hosting the Juntas Generales de Álava (General Meetings of Álava)

During the Napoleonic Wars fierce fights of the Vitorias Battle toke place in Arriaga. Fights for the control of the bridge of the Zadorra.

By the early 60' Arriaga still was a small town with nearly 300 inhabitants at the gates of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Then urban expansion started by the north-west and Vitoria started to surround the old lands of the village. Nowadays nearly nothing is left from the original town exept for the parish curch and the Hermitage of San Juan de Arriaga that are still conserved.

During the 60' and the 70' some new buildings where constructed and this way what originaly was a village come to become an other quarter of Vitoria-Gasteriz

Nowadays Arriaga-Lakua hosts the Govierno Vasco''(Basque Goberment), and is distributed in some smaller parts as Lakua 1, Lakua 2, Lakuabizkarra, Lakua 12 and Lakua 13 or Lakua-Arriaga

Category:Populated places in Álava

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