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- Butr\u00f3n Castle, or Butroeko gaztelua<\/em> in Euskara, dates to the Middle Ages. It sits in the forest outside Gatika<\/a>, just 20 kilometers from Bilbao. The castle has an ancient history. It was first built upon the site of the Butr\u00f3n family house, itself founded in the 8th century by one Captain Gam\u00edniz, upon a rock called either Ganzorri or Gantzurritz. The first castle, really a tower house<\/a>, was built in the 11th century.<\/li>
- The House of Butr\u00f3n<\/a> — the family — has a long history with connections to the House of Haro (which was connected to \u00cd\u00f1igo L\u00f3pez<\/a>, the first Lord of Biscay<\/a>), the monarchs of Asturias, Castilla, Le\u00f3n, Aragon, Navarra, and Portugal, and even the House of Uppsala\/Muns\u00f6<\/a> in Sweden. The first lord of the House of Butr\u00f3n was Juan P\u00e9rez de Butr\u00f3n, who was born around the year 1210. <\/li>
- In the 14th century, it was converted into a proper castle. The owners, the Butr\u00f3n<\/span> family, were supporters of the O\u00f1az family in the War of the Bands<\/a>. Mu\u00f1atones Castle<\/a>, which was built by chronicler of the War of the Bands Lope Garc\u00eda de Salazar, was inspired by Butr\u00f3n<\/span> Castle. For three hundred years, the castle was at the center of many battles that forged the region. In the 16th century, the castle was abandoned.<\/li>
- In 1878, the castle was completely redesigned and rebuilt by <\/span>Francisco de Cubas<\/a>, also known as the Marquis de Cubas. He also designed the <\/span>University of Deusto<\/a> in Bilbao. The rebuild was financed by <\/span>Narciso de Salabert y Pinedo<\/a>, the Marquis de la Torrecilla, who was descended from the original Butr\u00f3n line. It was inspired by the Bavarian castles and epitomized de Cubas’s architectural vision. <\/span><\/li>
- In 2005, the castle was purchased by INBISA<\/a> for 1,629,743 euros (roughly $2.2 million), after the previous owners, who had hoped to turn it into a wedding destination, went bankrupt. The castle was then put up for auction<\/a> in 2014, but no one bought it. It was sold in December, 2021, to a Russian investor who plans to use it for his “personal enjoyment<\/a>.”<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Primary sources: Castillo de Butr\u00f3n<\/a>, Castillos de Olvido; Castillo de Butr\u00f3n<\/a>, Wikipedia; BUTRON<\/em>. Enciclopedia Au\u00f1amendi. Available at: https:\/\/aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus\/es\/butron\/ar-32809\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In probably 1996, after I had started this page and met Xabier Ormaetxea online, I visited the Basque Country and Xabier took me to see Butr\u00f3n Castle. At the time, it was open for visitors, with people in period costume welcoming us and showing us the castle. For me, it was pretty impressive – you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,8,13],"tags":[790,3157,2885,3159,3158,2881,2887,1357,1854,2883,2884,2886,2882,2291,1514,2880],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basque-fact-of-the-week","category-euskadi","category-history","tag-butron","tag-captain-gaminiz","tag-francisco-de-cubas","tag-gantzurritz","tag-ganzorri","tag-gatika","tag-house-of-butron","tag-inigo-lopez","tag-lope-garcia-de-salazar","tag-lord-of-biscay","tag-munatones-castle","tag-narciso-de-salabert-y-pinedo","tag-tower-house","tag-university-of-deusto","tag-war-of-the-bands","tag-xavier-ormaetxea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Castillo-de-Butron.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1gH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- The House of Butr\u00f3n<\/a> — the family — has a long history with connections to the House of Haro (which was connected to \u00cd\u00f1igo L\u00f3pez<\/a>, the first Lord of Biscay<\/a>), the monarchs of Asturias, Castilla, Le\u00f3n, Aragon, Navarra, and Portugal, and even the House of Uppsala\/Muns\u00f6<\/a> in Sweden. The first lord of the House of Butr\u00f3n was Juan P\u00e9rez de Butr\u00f3n, who was born around the year 1210. <\/li>