Ábalos, La Rioja

Control of the area then returned to Muslim hands until its final conquest in the late ninth and early tenth century.

In 1397 Charles III of Navarre granted Rui Lopez de Dábalos the town with all its land and royal rights except the sovereignty and appeal to the court of the King.

Ábalos, however, continued to belong to the Lordship of San Vicente until 1727, when, as a result of debts incurred by the Counts of Castilnovo, gentlemen of the time, the estate was put on auction by the Tribunal of the Inquisition of Logrono, being awarded to the neighbors who bid up to 53,500 maravedis.

This name, according to Ortiz Trifol,[7] was related to Abalasqueta, the Basque, or rather it was the accusative plural of the anthroponym of the second declension of Abaris, perhaps taking into account the identification between the Varduli city of Thabuca and Avalos, indicates .

The Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir (: St. Stephen Protomartyr Parish Church) was declared an asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Monument on September 28, 1983.

The altarpiece, located in the presbytery, dates back to the mid sixteenth century and is attributed to the workshop of the Beaugrant family.

Popularly known by this name ((in Spanish): la casa del Virrey de Nápoles), alluding to the Viceroyalty of Naples.

D. Ramiro participated, with other Navarrese knights, in the first Crusade, together with Godfrey of Bouillon, entering Jerusalem with his army through the Probatic Pool.

In his will, he ordered the construction of a temple for his second son, D. Sancho Ramírez, Lord of Peñacerrada, under the invocation of "Our Lady of la Piscina", so that the piece of the True Cross that he brought would be kept there.

He also ordered the creation of the Solar Badge and Royal House of la Piscina, which has defined chapters and regulations and whose last patrons are linked to the Ábalos Palace.

One of them, Francisco Antonio Ramírez de la Piscina, Archdeacon, commissioner of the Crusade and vicar general of the Archbishopric of Toledo, carried out, at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century, various works to expand and improve the primitive building, as well as the creation of a garden with geometric drawings of boxwood, which is preserved intact today.

The most notable of the expansion works mentioned are the construction of three towers, two of them on the façade facing noon on the which are supported by three superimposed porticoed galleries, in the style of the Italian Renaissance "loggias", which inspired the project.

Bodegas de la Real Divisa was the first Rioja winery to receive a Medal at the Bordeaux Exhibition in 1895.

According to tradition, King Don García went hunting with his goshawk one morning, near the Peña de Nájera, on the French path of Saint James Way.

A partridge rose up and, pursued by the goshawk, went to take refuge inside a cave hidden among brambles and holm oaks.

In the first years of the 15th century, a refoundation was carried out by the Infante D. Fernando de Antequera, who modified the original emblem, adding a griffin that holds the Jar of Lilies.

The oldest part of the Real Divisa Winery must correspond to the period of splendor of the aforementioned Order, as witnessed by the purity of the work on the Terrace of its façade, which lacks the additions incorporated in 1403, so , in any case it must be prior to this last date.

View of Ábalos with the Church of "San Esteban Protomartir" and the "Fernández de Navarrete Palace", from the west.
Speech on the necessity, validity and advantages that would result to La Rioja and the State, in its establishment as a Political Province of the Monarchy and Independent of the others." (1813). Antonio Fernandez de Navarrete Ximenez de Tejada
Hermitage of San Felices.
Hermitage of San Roque.
Hermitage of San Bartolomé.
House of the Viceroy of Naples.
The Marquis of Legarda Palace.
Nobility Coat of Arms "Fernández de Navarrete" in the family Pantheon. Abalos. La Rioja. Spain
House of Guardia. Martín Fernández de Navarrete Square. Abalos.