News
Festivals of Barriopozo and St Lawrence
Added two sections in festivals. The first one is Barriopozo's holiday, a street of the village that is joined once a year to eat and to have dinner all together in the street. And to the second it is The St Lawrence, celebrated this last weekend.
Update of the site
A few updates of the web are available to improve the aspect of the web and the communication with you. To begin now when wanted an image to see more big only you have that to click in them and it will open in the same page putting the bottom them darkly. In some you can to move with the arrows if they belong to a gallery. Already you can to enter to the group created of Briones in Facebook. You can to access to click in the photo of the right in it cut networks. There are renewed the sections of photos and videos of the Medieval Days and of the section media.
Improved the seeker of the web, now the results will go out for you in the same web and better access. Added the museum of The delighted house and a video of The St Lawrence celebrated 2009 this last weekend and many retouches within of the web.
10 August 2009
Videos Medievales days 2009
Ready the videos of the Medieval days celebrated this last weekend. To see them you do not have any more that to click in see more.
DisfrutaBriones.es in Youtube and Flickr
Disfrutabriones.es already it has two communities where we can interact with all our visitors. The first one is Youtube a site dedicated to the hosting of videos, where you will be able to see all the videos related to the village. The second is Flickr a community of photos and vidoes in order that can to see our albumes of photos and to do commentaries in the photos.
The urls of our communities are. To go to them it clicks in the photo.
http://www.youtube.com/disfrutabriones
http://www.flickr.com/photos/disfrutabriones
Photos Medieval days 2009
Ready the photos of the Medieval days celebrated this last weekend. To see them you do not have any more that to click in see more.
Videos MDB 2008
Already you can enjoy a video of the Medieval Days celebrated in June. You will be able to enjoy the hallways, warriors fighting, the sound and lights show...
To see it only you have to click here.
Photos MDB 2008
Church
In La Rioja several churches exist conceived in floor of lounge and between all of them It stands out since the the most beautiful, spacious and balanced of Nuesta Señora of Briones's Asuncion. In a building constructed in the 16th century in chairs of style King Católicos and renaissance, of three ships, the head office broader than two wings, but little more, to equal height, than five sections and head-board ochavada in three cloths: lateral chapels, high choir, sacristy, and of elegant tower. His vault presents crucerías starred, with curved curved and remains, on pointed arches, cylindrical props fasciculados in base octogonal and capitals like ring of vegetable decoration. The year 1521 the stone-cutter Michael de Esquioga promises to construct...
Opinion about the MDB
Medieval fairs there are many but of Briones of this weekend paragon does not have it in many kilometres to the semibreve. The one who writes has visited - trade forces - almost all the historical recreations that are done in our near geography and some in foreigner, and I must say that rarely I have remained so affected like Briones.
Antxon Aguirre Sorondo "Diario Vasco"
History
According to some authors his name derives from the former berones. Govantes in his Geographical - historical Dictionary of La Rioja, appointment " Briones preserves the name of the former Berones, Celtic village that was possessing this country when the Romans conquered Spain ". But it had more ancient settlers according to remains of the Age of Bronze, found by the hermitage of the Martyrs. Of the Roman epoch scarcely there is Briones's news. Nevertheless they have found archaeological remains near the hermitage of the Concepcion, in the Real Way called.
The history confirms his importance and there are indications of road link. During the Arabic domination, the Chronicle Albendense indicates that Alfonso I of Asturias expelled the Muslims of Briones about the year 740. Nevertheless Briones's reconquest...
