Labastida

{{Infobox settlement | name = Labastida / Bastida | settlement_type = Municipality | official_name = | native_name = | image_skyline = Labastida seen from the East.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = Labastida seen from the east | image_flag = Bandera de labastida.svg | image_shield = Escudo de Labastida.svg | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Spain Basque Country#Spain | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Labastida within the Basque Country | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Spain | subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community | subdivision_name1 = | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = Alava | subdivision_type3 = Eskualdea / Comarca | subdivision_name3 = Rioja Alavesa | seat_type = | seat = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 38.17 | established_title = Founded | established_date = | population_footnotes = <!-- for references: use while the necropolis of Remelluri, where some 300 tombs are carved out of bare rock, is thought to date to the 10th century. While the majority are Christian, Islamic burials also took place here, when the region was part of Moorish Al-Andalus. This Muslim presence diminished after the reconquista, when the village became part of the Kingdom of Navarre. From this period, during the so-called repoblación (repopulation), settlers arrived from the Christian kingdoms of Navarra and Castile, speaking Basque and Spanish respectively, while a Jewish community also continued living in the village, giving the name of the Jewish Quarter to the part of the town around Plaza del Olmo. Today wine cellars under this neighbourhood occupy the tunnels and caves where the Jewish community conducted their ceremonies privately.

In the medieval period, Labastida was a substantial fortified town. It occupied an important position close to the River Ebro and at a junction on routes between Burgos, Pamplona and the Basque coast, and as a result the town changed hands constantly between Navarra and Castile from the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Finally and definitively it became part of Álava in the 16th century. thumb|left|A view of the main street, with palaces lining the route from the main square to one of the old entrances to the town, the Arco de Larrazuría It was in this period that the town found great wealth and prosperity. A large number of palaces were constructed in the Calle Mayor, where 29 stone coats of arms are still visible carved into their façades, as well as the new classical church, Our Lady of the Assumption, built in the 16th and 17th centuries and decorated in an opulent Baroque style.