Aránguiz (in Basque Arangiz and officially Aránguiz / Arangiz) is a village and City Council in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the province of Álava, Basque Country, Spain.
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History
Aránguiz originally belonged to the Lauzurica-Lauzurika family. It belonged to the Foronda municipality until it was absorbed by the municipality of Vitoria in the 1970s.
Location
It is a village of 119 inhabitants located 6.5 km northwest of the city of Vitoria, near the road junction confluence of the A-1 (Madrid-Irún) and the highway linking Bilbao to Vitoria.
To the northwest of the town are the Foronda Airport tracks. In some ways the town is sandwiched between the airport runways and highways that surround it.
Attractions
In the village there is the San Pedro church which combines Gothic elements with some Romanesque. The altarpieces are baroque. Patron saint feasts take place on June 29.