Ziortza-Bolibar

**Ziortza-Bolibar** () is a municipality in the province o Biscay, Basque Kintra (Spain), in the comarca o Lea-Artibai. It haes 383 indwallers accordin tae the 2006 census, an haes a aurie o 18.94&nbsp;km².

The municipality wis annexed in 1969 bi Markina-Xemein an recovered its unthirldom on 1 Januar 2005. Records indicate its existence syne the 11t hunderyear.

## Etymology
The name *Bolibar* comes frae the Basque leid, meanin "windmill valley" (*bolu* = "windmill" an *ibar* = "valley"). Ziortza/Cenarruza is derivit frae a local name for polygonum *ziaurri* (historically **zinaurri*) an the suffix -tza denotin a place o abundance o something.

## Puebla de Bolívar
**Bolívar** or **Bolibar** (in Basque) is the urban centre o the municipality, situatit alang the stream wi the same name, at the fuit o Munt Oiz.

Frae 1969 tae 2004 it belonged, alang wi the neebourheid o Cenarruza (Ziortza in Basque), tae the municipality o Markina-Xemein, till a commonty muivement managit tae merge baith neebourheids intae a unthirlt municipality.

The last name **Bolívar** haes its oreegins in this locality; Simón Bolívar de la Rementería, a colonist born in this neebourhei, teuk it frae Europe tae the Americae, whaur his famous stryndant Simón Bolívar, ane o the  Liberators o Americae made it famous aroond the warld. Thare are a couple o statues an a museum in his honour; thare wis a faimily hoose in Rementería, ahint the local kirk, but it daes no exist onymair.

Ither illustrious fowk frae this smaw veelage are: Diego de Irusta, who pairticipatit in the Battle o Las Navas de Tolosa; the abbots o the Collegiate Kirk o Cenarruza; Diego an Bernardino de Irusta; general Francisco de Longa, hero o the Spainyie Unthirldom War; an general Pedro de Zubiaur.

## The Collegiate Kirk o Cenarruza

The **Collegiate Kirk o Cenarruza** or Ziortza is locatit roughly twa kilometers frae the urban nucleus. It wis a important enclave in the Route o Santiago de Compostela, an its influence extendit ayont the comarca an surpassed the releegious scope.

Tradeetion marks its foondin in the 10t hunderyear. Accordin tae legend, on the day o the Assumption in the year 968 the local indwallers held a mass in the Kirk o Santa Lucia de Garay, when a eagle pickit up a skull frae a opened tomb an droppit it in the place whaur the Collegiate Kirk is situatit the day. The fowk unnerstuid this event tae be a sign an raised the releegious complex in that place.

The complex consists o:
*The **kirk**, oreeginally biggit in the 14t hunderyear but continually rebuilt until it obtained, in the 15t hunderyear, the Gothic style it currently haes. In its interior thare is a magnificent organ, ane o the maist auncient in Biscay, an a lairge group o sculpturs. The portico haes curious carvins in its beams, an the front door haes a group o sculpturs representin Jesus Christ an twa muisicker angels.
*The **[[closter]]**, biggit in the Renaissance period. It haes a square floor-plan, an the spandrels are decoratit wi shells an Fleur-de-lis crosses.
*The **Eastern Gate** is the main entrance tae the releegious complex. It bears the coat-o-airms o the Múgica an Butrón faimilies, as well as a image o the legendar eagle hauldin the skull in its claws.

*The **Wastren Gate**, smawer than the Eastren ane but bearin the same coat-o-airms an the same image o the eagle.

Thare wis a hospital for pilgrims that wis destroyed in a fire an wis subsequently rebuilt as a hostel managit bi Cistercian monks an is the property o the monastery o Oliva in Navarre. Thare are remains o a walkwey which shapit pairt o the Santiago Route.

## Ither monuments in Bolívar

*Kirk o Saunt Thomas, biggit in the 10t hunderyear an rebuilt in the 17t an 18t hunderyears. It haes the structur o a fortress-temple, wi anerly ane nave an a rib vault, as well as twa cylindrical touers. The altarpiece is neoclessical.
*The govrenment o Venezuela erectit a monument in honour o the "Liberator" (Simón Bolívar) in 1927, the first ane in Spain.

## References


## Freemit airtins
*Bolívar en la web de Lea Artibai 
*Museo Simón Bolívar