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Vitoria-Gasteiz

Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spanish Vitoria; Euskara: Gasteiz), a city of over 242 thousand,1 with a metropolitan area of nearly 243 thousand,2 is located in the center of Álava Province, País Vasco Autonomous Community, España (Spain). It is on one of the routes pilgrims use to get to Santiago de Compostela; the routes in España (Spain) constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tallest building is Sector 11 M-5 (243 feet, 2009).3

External references

Overview of the center of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava Province, País Vasco Autonomous Community, España (Spain)

Footnotes

1. 2014 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitoria-Gasteiz, accessed December 28-30, 2015.
2. Francisco Ruiz column for 2008 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Spain, accessed December 28-30, 2015.
3. emporis.com, accessed April 21, 2016.