Bergara

Municipality in Basque Country, Spain

Coat of arms

43°07′03″N 2°24′48″W / 43.11750°N 2.41333°W / 43.11750; -2.41333Country

SpainAutonomous community

Basque CountryProvinceGipuzkoaEskualdeaDebagoienaFounded1268 (1268)Government

• MayorElena Lete García (PNV)Area

• Total75.97 km² (29.33 sq mi)Population

(2018)^[1]

• Total14,596 • Density190/km² (500/sq mi)Demonym(s)Basque: bergarar Spanish: vergarés, vergaresaTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

20570
20578–20580

Official language(s)Basque
SpanishWebsiteOfficial website

Bergara (Basque pronunciation: [berɣaɾa]; Spanish: Vergara) is a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the north of Spain.

An Enlightened center of education operated by the Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País ("Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country"), it was the place where brothers Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar discovered wolfram.^[2]

During the Carlist Wars, it operated as the capital and royal court of the Carlists. It was there where the agreement symbolized in the Vergara Embrace between Rafael Maroto and Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara ended one of the period wars.

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ A Chemical Analysis of Wolfram and Examination of a New Metal, which enters into its Composition, By Don John Joseph and Don Fausto de Luyart, Translated from the Spanish by Charles Cullen, Esc. To which is prefixed A Translation of Mr. Scheele's Analysis of the Tungsten, or Heavy Stone; with Mr. Bergman's Supplemental Remarks, London, 1785, 67 pp.

External links

Official Website Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Basque and Spanish)
Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Basque and Spanish)
Laboratorium Bergara - European Physical Society Historic Site