NH Canciller Ayala Vitoria

The doyen of Basque congress halls is a modern, functional building, ideal for conferences of up to 700 people.

Old palace (1525) that combines the Archaeological Museum of Alava and the Fournier Playing Card Museum, with a collection of old cards more important in the world

Pintxo route"Pintxos" are a typical sample of Basque cuisine. These small delicacies are also known as miniature cuisine or nanogastronomy. There are a number of "Pintxo" Routes in the city

Vitoria Cathedral is located on the highest part of the hill upon which the old settlement of Gasteiz was built, within the limits of the old city walls. The hill, with the cathedral at its northern end, runs north to south about twenty metres above the Alava Plain that surrounds it in all directions. The cathedral itself is build on part of this slope, as is evident in the fact that its southern and western walls, which face the old city located on the higher ground, are raised approximately nine metres above its north-eastern façade, which is located halfway down the hill. As a result of these geographical and historical conditions, the subsoil of the building contains a large amount of imported earth, brought in specially to help level the floor surface inside the cathedral. Another consequence of the uneven landscape is the enormous difference in the height of the walls between one side of the building and the other. Picture of the catedral and its surroundingsFrom historical documents that chart the evolution of the city's oldest quarter, we know that the cathedral once formed part of the medieval defensive battlements. This explains the thickness of its walls, which were originally windowless on the north side, as well as the presence of a ramparts walk, which ran along the entire length of the building, from the southern end of its crossing to the north-western corner of its portico, past the ambulatory, transept and north nave.

The Añana salt works is one of the oldest salt production facilities in the world. "White gold" has been produced here uninterruptedly for 6,500 years. The natural emergence of the salt springs caused the establishment of a settlement in the surrounding area that has developed uninterruptedly for thousands of years and that, based on the production of salt, has learned to adapt to the conditions and specificities of each historical period

The Green Belt of Vitoria-Gasteiz is the result of an ambitious project to restore and recover the peripheral areas of Vitoria-Gasteiz, both from the environmental and social viewpoint, in order to create a large green area for recreational use around the city.