Ispaster is a town and
municipality
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located in the province of
Biscay
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B ...
, in the autonomous community of
Basque Country, northern
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
. According to the 2019 census, it has 735 inhabitants.
Prehistory
The first archaeological artifacts were found in the caves of Kobeaga II and Kobeaga I. The first, located a few kilometers away from the sea, a small group in
Mesolithic dedicated to important activity settled as fishing. This settlement, formed by a population of men who fished
Mollusca, was founded around 3500
BCE
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, according to the investigations made by Apellaniz in 1973.
The second cave, Kobeaga I, located in the same area as the first, were used as a funeral enclosure during the
Bronze Age
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.
In this locality are in addition other deposits without excavating, such as ''Otoyo'ko Jentilkoba, Jentilkoba de Iparretxe'' and ''Urtiaga''. The first documented mentions of the municipality of Ispaster date from year ''1334'', in an order of
Alfonso XI
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.
History
Ispaster is located in a coastal hill, alternating between low and sandy areas to cliffs. The first signs of human occupation are in diverse cavities where a small group lived on fishermen-recolectores during the
Mesolithic. Others served like funeral enclosures from the
Neolithic
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. At the beginning of the
early modern period, a constructive explosion takes place that turns the municipality in Biscay's best equipped one in
gothic-
Renaissance
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popular architecture.
Events
The
Grand Prix Ayuntamiento de Ispaster is held in Ispaster
See also
*
1980 Ispaster attack
References
External links
*http://www.ispaster.net
ISPASTER in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)
Municipalities in Biscay
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