Santo Domingo de la Calzada .

SANTO DOMINGO DE LA CALZADA

The population of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is already a small village in the eleventh century, although it is mentioned for the first time in 1136. This core cartularies small population concentrated around the church and the hospital had launched Sunday, the hermit who is at the origin of the settlement of our city and in his own name.

The villa will be under the rule of the abbot until 1250, date in which you will leave abadenga to realenga, ie under the government and administration of the king. By then, the population has grown along what is known as Barrio Viejo; all part of the road which, coming from Logroño, came to the Cathedral and consisted of the first houses that emerged in the borough, and the New Quarter; the rest of the way from the Cathedral to the exit towards Burgos and is the result of thoughtful planning to facilitate the settlement of new people coming into the population.

This population growth occurred as a result of the privileges that were granted him porAlfonso VIII in 1187 and 1207, for growth of the borough. In the late thirteenth century, they had appeared the neighborhood of San Pedro, at the foot of the Cathedral, and the suburb of Margubete in the north.

Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the wall is built and displayed the suburb of La Puebla in the south, the neighborhood Market behind the Cathedral and Calle Pinar, which the city acquired the distribution we know today as the Old Town.

The sixteenth century knows the development and flourishing of the city, which comes to have 3,000 inhabitants, including the new suburbs that arise then; the San Roque, near the east gate of Pinar Street, and San Francisco, around the convent of the same name.

After a seventeenth century full of uncertainty and crisis in the rest of Spain, the eighteenth century reflects the rise of a new development, the result of a new conception of society, with the remodeling of Laplaza Mayor with the building of judges and Town hall; new rides and laCarrera Ram and above all, the free Tower rises in the space occupied until then the jail, now transferred to the building of the township.

In the nineteenth century, Santo Domingo de la Calzada becomes, with the creation of the province of Logroño, in head of region and judicial party. neuralgic point of the Rioja Alta, reached the 4,000 inhabitants at the end of the century and throughout the last century continues to maintain its influence in the region, becoming the service center in the area. Meet a new development that makes the city grow in the north-south axis, locating industrial facilities in this area, mainly emphasizing the polygon San Lazaro. In 1973, the Old Town was declared a Historical and Artistic Interest.