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Since the very beginning of the establishment of the town, its industrial nature was very relevant. The king kept for himself the strip mining of the minerals such as gold or silver, and the ironworks production. As Tomás López described in 1800 "The industrialization transformed that protoindustry,
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Brotherhood of Gipuzkoa of 1457 and 1463 years appears with the Elgoibar name and it has prevailed until today. Elgoibar name has been used in Spanish and in Basque in order to refer to the small town. The only difference is that in Spanish the name Elgoibar has an accent mark above its "o".
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Villamayor de Marquina, but it had been founded in a place called before Elgoibar field. The town came to be known by this name a few centuries of its foundation. Until the mid-15th century it appears in the documentation as Villamayor de Marquina, but in the statutes
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Elgoibar celebrates festivity in honor of its patron; San
Bartolome and San Anton. The latter is the patron of the villa. In addition, there are a number of celebrations that are celebrated in unison of the region or the country such as San Blas, Carnivals or the Eve of St. Agatha. There is cattle
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Elgoibar, and that have at least an staff of 50 people according to the Basque Industry catalog:
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or "a cultivated field". This etymology would fit quite well with the mention of
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on a machinery tools factories network; like this is how this village turned into being the "capital city of the
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Then, there are smaller celebrations in the rural districts and the hermitages like the pilgrimage of
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Solutions: Designing and manufacturing equipment for the industry of science and machine tool industry.
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Ecenarro, S.A.: Manufacturing paints and special covers for the automotive industry
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ELGOIBAR in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)
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Juan Cruz Sol (1947): international footballer who played for Real Madrid and
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Gotzon Garate (1934-2008): Basque writer, philosopher, philologist and Jesuit.
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festivity, second landlord of the town, on 17 January.
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river. Elgoibar is nicknamed the "capital city of the
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