page_title: Botanical Garden of Santa Catalina
section_title: The origins of the botanical garden
hierarchical_section_title: Botanical Garden of Santa Catalina / History / The origins of the botanical garden
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Klosterruinen Santa Catalina im Botanischen Garten. Trespuentes, Iruña de Oca, Álava, País Vasco, España English: Convent ruins Santa Catalina in the Botanical Garden. Trespuentes, Iruña de Oca, Álava, Basque Country, Spain Español: Ruinas del Convento de Santa Catalina en el Jardín Botánico. Trespuentes, Iruña de Oca, Álava, País Vasco, España
context_page_description: The Botanical Garden of Santa Catalina or in Basque: “Santa Katalina Lorategi Botanikoa”, is a botanical garden about 32,500 meters square extension, in the municipality of Iruña de Oca, in the surroundings of Sierra de Badaya, province of Alava, autonomous community of the Basque Country, Spain. It’s a member of the Ibero Macaronesian association of Botanical Gardens.
context_section_description: The Iruña family, probably the most powerful family of Iruña de Oca, were the ones that built the tower house in the thirteenth century, a century of feudal revolts.
  A century and a half later when there was peace in the area, the Iruña decided to change their place of residence and built a new building in Vitoria (now Doña Otxanda tower), and gave their former residence to the order of Hieronymites.
  A few years later it was passed to the Augustinian monks, who built the monastery of Santa Catalina, and kept the old tower. In the old tower they attached a church which had its own cloister.
  In 1835 with the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal, it was vacated by the monks. Neglect took over the premise and in the First Carlist War it was turned into a barracks for the troops of the pretender Carlos María Isidro de Borbón. After the fall of this fortress, the Carlists set it on fire and left it in ruins.
  Trespuentes Botanical Garden began in 1999 as a project, and in 2003 was already a reality.
caption: Ruins of Santa Catalina and botanical garden
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