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'''Santo Domingo de la Calzada''' is a municipality in [[La Rioja (Spain)|La Rioja]], Spain, situated on the banks of the [[Oja River]]. Its name refers to its founder, [[Dominic de la Calzada]], who built a bridge, hospital, and hotel here for pilgrims on the [[French Way]] the most popular path of the [[Way of St. James]]. He began construction of the town's [[Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada]] is buried within and it is dedicated to him.<ref>Gitlitz & Davidson, The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook, 2000, St Martin's Press, {{ISBN|0-312-25416-4}} </ref>

Philosopher [[Gustavo Bueno|Gustavo Bueno Martínez]] was born here in 1924.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada is also the site of the miracle of the "hanged innocent" a pilgrim wrongly accused of theft. The witnesses for his successful appeal, a pair of beheaded, supposedly cooked chickens are represented by their descendants, a pair of whom are kept at all times in the choir loft of the cathedral. Other descendants are kept in the local pilgrimage refuge.<ref>Gitlitz & Davidson, pp.154-5 </ref>

== Politics ==

{{Spanish_Mayors

| Alcalde_1 = Rodolfo Varona Aransay

| Partido_1 = [[Grouping of electors (Spain)|Grouping of electors]]

| Alcalde_2 = Rodolfo Varona Aransay

| Partido_2 = [[Riojan Party|PR]]

| Alcalde_3 = José Ramón Mendi Barrón

| Partido_3 = [[Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)|UCD]]

| Alcalde_4 = Javier Ruiz Aznárez

| Partido_4 = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]

| Alcalde_5 = Esther Vargas Domingo

| Partido_5 = [[People's Party (Spain)|PP]]

| Alcalde_6 = Esther Vargas Domingo

| Partido_6 = [[People's Party (Spain)|PP]]

| Alcalde_7 = Agustín García Metola

| Partido_7 = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]

| Alcalde_8 = Agustín García Metola

| Partido_8 = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]

| Alcalde_9 = Javier Azpeitia Sáez

| Partido_9 = [[People's Party (Spain)|PP]]

| Alcalde_10 = Agustín García Metola

| Partido_10 = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]

| Alcalde_11 = Javier Ruiz Bartolomé

| Partido_11 = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]]

}}

==Notable people==

* [[Henry II of Castile]] died in the city in [[1379]]

* [[Gustavo Bueno]]

* [[Jerónimo Hermosilla]]

* [[Ángel Augusto de Monasterio]]

==See also==

*[[Dominic de la Calzada]]

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==External links==

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*{{esin iconlang|es}} [http://lacalzada.com Historia, cultura, gastronomía y actividades de Santo Domingo de la Calzada]

{{Municipalities in La Rioja}}

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[[Category:Municipalities in La Rioja (Spain)]]

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