Erandio is a town and
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
located in the province of
Biscay
Biscay (; eu, Bizkaia ; es, Vizcaya ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao. ...
, in the autonomous community of
Basque Country, northern
Spain
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The name comes from euskera ARANDIO that means plum plantation or field.
In 1415, during the
War of the Bands, the ''corregidor'', the royally-appointed governor of the Biscayan ''
hermandad'', acting on royal orders, siphoned off Biscayan wheat to the
Asturias
Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
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, inciting a rebellion. The Biscayans were defeated at Erandio with the loss of sixty men and the wheat transfers continued.
Festivals
Several annual festivals are celebrated in Erandio. Most of them are
''fiestas patronales'' (patronage festivals, held in the days around the date dedicated to the
patron saint
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s under whose advocation churches and hermits are).
The local public holiday of the municipality rotates yearly on August 10, August 28 and the
corpus Christi day.
* June 11,
Saint Barnabas in Fano / Faoeta.
* June 13,
Saint Anthony of Padua in Martiartu, Goierri.
* June 29,
Saint Peter
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in Kukularra.
* July 3,
Saint Tryphon in Arriaga.
* July 10,
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher ( el, Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, ''Ágios Christóphoros'') is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius (reigned 249–251) or alternatively ...
in Goierri.
* Second half of July in Asua.
* August 10,
Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman ...
in Astrabudua.
* August 15,
''Andra Maria'' (Our Lady Mary) in Erandio Goikoa (August 15, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a public holiday in Spain).
* August 17 and 18:
Saint Mammes
Saint Mammes (Mamas, Mammas, Mammet) of Caesarea ( el, Μάμας; french: Mammès; it, Mamante; es, Mamés; pt, São Mamede) was a child-martyr of the 3rd century, who was martyred at Caesarea. His parents, Theodotus and Rufina, were also ...
in Santimami (Saint Mammes' hermit lies on the municipal border and most of the festival acts are held on
Leioa's ground).
* August 29,
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afr ...
in Altzaga.
* First week of September in Enekuri.
* Third week of September in Lutxana.
Erandio has also celebrated a street music festival called
Musikale, with music bands marching and playing in the neighbourhoods of Altzaga and Astrabudua. Musikale was originally conceived in the neighbouring municipality of Leioa. For some years it was held simultaneously in Leioa, Erandio, Basauri and Sestao, but the other municipalities dropped it, and in 2013 only Erandio organised it.
Transport
Erandio is connected to other municipalities of Biscay (like
Barakaldo
Barakaldo ( es, Baracaldo; eu, Barakaldo ) is a municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country. Located on the Left Bank of the Estuary of Bilbao, the city is part of Greater Bilbao, has a population at 100,881. Barakaldo h ...
,
Bermeo,
Bilbao
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Derio,
Getxo
Getxo () is a town located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in Spain.
It is part of Greater Bilbao, and has 77,946 inhabitants (2019). Getxo is mostly an affluent residential area, as well as being th ...
,
Larrabetzu,
Laukiz
Laukiz is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain
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, ...
,
Leioa,
Mungia
Mungia (in Spanish: ''Munguía'') is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country of northern Spain. The
town has 17,691 inhabitants (2019).
Geography
Mungia lies 20 metres above sea level in an area full of ...
and
Muskiz) by
Bizkaibus
BizkaiBus is the name for bus services serving the province of Biscay, Spain. It is named after the Basque name of the province, ''Bizkaia''. The buses can be identified by their distinctive green (until 2009 yellow) livery.
The bus network is ...
bus services
Queries
Web of the Foral Diputation of Biscay and by line 1 of the Bilbao metro, which has three stations in Erandio ( Lutxana, Erandio, and Astrabudua). It is also connected to Barakaldo by regular fluvial transport over the Estuary of Bilbao
The Estuary of Bilbao (Spanish: ''Ría de Bilbao'' / Basque: ''Bilboko Itsasadarra'') lies at the common mouth of the rivers Nervion, Ibaizabal and Cadagua, which drain most of Biscay and part of Alava in the Basque Country, Spain. In this inst ...
.
Notable people
* Ramon Rubial (1906–1999), politician.
* Rafael Eguzkiza (1912–1981), footballer
* Telmo Zarra (1921–2006), footballer
* Luis María Echeberría (1940–2016), footballer
* Alex Angulo (1953–2014), actor
* Sendoa Agirre (1975–), footballer
* Vicente Lapatza (1927–), footballer
References
External links
ERANDIO in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa – Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)
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Municipalities in Biscay
Estuary of Bilbao