Natural environment

A perennially green landscape of rolling plains, grazing meadows, orchards and forests in a seamless balance, with sprinklings of farmhouses and hamlets, medieval towers and parishes living in perfect harmony. The area of Álava is where the daily use of the Basque language has been preserved the most, and along with it, a rich heritage of legends and traditions.

Dozens of small paths, artificial reservoirs, rivers, thousand-year-old caves, the Gorbeia and Urkiola Natural Parks, a wide variety of vegetation of great botanical interest and beautiful landscape, as well as a good number of animal species which can be found in their natural habitat, make up this spectacular corner in which one will never fail to come away surprised by its beauty.