Vitoria-Gasteiz (esp)

Vitoria-Gasteiz

Vitoria-Gasteiz ranks 444th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Salzburg, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, and Madison, Wisconsin. Memorable people born in Vitoria-Gasteiz include Andoni Zubizarreta, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, and Ramiro de Maeztu. Memorable people who died in Vitoria-Gasteiz include Sebastián Iradier. Vitoria-Gasteiz has been the birth place of many soccer players and cyclists and the death place of many composers. Vitoria-Gasteiz is located in Spain.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, also alternatively spelled as Vittoria in older English-language sources, is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, and the Lehendakari's official residency. The municipality—which comprises not only the city but also the mainly agricultural lands of 63 villages around—is the largest in the Basque Country, with a total area of 276.81 square kilometres (106.88 sq mi), and it has a population of 253,093. The dwellers of Vitoria-Gasteiz are called vitorianos or gasteiztarrak, while traditionally they are dubbed babazorros. Read more on Wikipedia