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Sorzano

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Country
  
Spain

Comarca
  
Rioja Media

Elevation
  
719 m

Local time
  
Monday 11:24 AM

Province
  
La Rioja

Autonomous community
  
La Rioja

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
10.23 km²

Population
  
248 (2014)

Sorzano

Weather
  
11°C, Wind E at 14 km/h, 67% Humidity

Sorzano is a municipality of the autonomous community of La Rioja (Spain). It is located near the capital Logroño and has a population of 263 inhabitants as of January 2006. Sorzano also has 10.23 km extension.

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Map of 26191 Sorzano, La Rioja, Spain

History

In the testament of queen Doña Estefanía, widow of king García Sanchez III of Navarre (from Nájera), leaves to her son Don Sancho, with Viguera and other villages, like Soricano.

In 1070 the kings of Pamplona Don Sancho and Doña Placencia gave to the monastery of Saints Cosme and Damián the part of the tithes of his belonging in Viguera, Hornos, Entedigone (Entrena), and half mill of Solarana (Sorzano). All these villages are near Logroño.

Sorzano was village of Nalda until 1632.

Monuments

  • St. Martin's Church.
  • Hermedaña's Hermitage.
  • Monument to Don Juan Calvo Estefanía.
  • References

    Sorzano Wikipedia