Oteiza

Oteiza or Oteiza de la Solana (Oteitza in Basque), is a village and a Spanish municipality of the Foral Community of Navarra, located in the merindad of Estella, in the Estella Oriental region, 51 km from the capital of the community, Pamplona.

King Sancho de Peñalén donated in 1074 to the monastery of Irache the rents of his miserlings in the place and rights over his church of San Salvador.

Two years later, the abbot of Irache received a swap in the village in exchange for that of San Juan de la Peña .

The nobleman García Almoravid enjoyed rents from collazos of the location until they were confiscated by the Crown after the Navarrería War (1276 - 1278), at which time they amounted to 65 salaries, 13 cahices and a half of wheat and as many barley.

In turn, Irache continued to perceive in the village the pecha of his farmers, with whom he sustained a lawsuit that was sentenced in 1315.

King Juan II of Aragón weakened in 1456 to his neighbors of the pecha that owed to the Crown by the services rendered in the civil war.

In 1921, Oteiza was already included in La Solana, although in the late Middle Ages it was linked within the villas of the Estellea Ribera.

One approached carefully to inspect the place and communicated to all present that it was nothing more than a simple and miserable basque that surely belonged to the owner of the farmyard.