Viana, Spain

Viana is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.[2] Cesare Borgia is buried there.[3]

Viana
Town and municipality
The main church in Viana, Navarra
The main church in Viana, Navarra
Flag of Viana
Coat of arms of Viana
CountrySpain
CommunityNavarre
MerindadEstellerria
CommarcaEstella Occidental
Government
  MayorJosé Luis Murguiondo (Navarrese People's Union)
Population
 (2018)[1]
  Total4,156

Viana is on the French Way path of the Camino de Santiago.

Demography

Vertical bar chart demographic of Viana between 1900 and 2017
  Population according to the census[4]

Notable people

  • José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios, born there in 1679,[5] was Governor of Costa Rica (1713 to 1717) and Nicaragua (1740 to 1745) during Spanish colonial times.[6][7]
  • Francisco Gonzalez de Ibarra, a missionary active in Southern California between 1820 and 1840, was a native of Viana,[8] born there in 1782.[9]
  • Jesús Elizalde Sainz de Robles (1907-1980), Carlist politician

See also

References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. "Spain's Grupo Clavijo installs 12.56 MW solar power plant in Sri Lanka". Colombo Page. LankaPage.com (LLC). 4 February 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  3. Moore, Malcolm (23 January 2007). "The rehabilitation of Cesare Borgia". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. "Alteraciones de los municipios en los Censos de Población desde 1842 Viana". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 July 2010.
  5. Caldera Cardenal, Norman José (1993). La descendencia del General José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios: en Nicaragua y el mundo. Copi-Zás. pp. 15–19.
  6. Fernández Guardia, Ricardo (2006). Crónicas coloniales de Costa Rica. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. p. 124. ISBN 9968314811. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  7. Cardenal Telleria, Marco A. (2000). Nicaragua y su historia, 1502-1936: 1502-1936. Banco Mercantil. pp. 169–171. ISBN 9992400641. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  8. de Jesús Chauvet, Fidel (1983). Franciscanos memorables en México: ensayo histórico (1523-1982). Centro de Estudios Bernardino de Sahagún.
  9. Archivo ibero-americano. J. Costa. 1965. p. 324.
  • Media related to Viana at Wikimedia Commons

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