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Opened in 2001, the winery is buried achieving the ideal conditions for making and ageing wine while getting perfectly integrated with the landscape. The barrel room is one of the largest in the world and contains 70,000 oak barrels.
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Fuente de los Riojanos Ilustres
Fountain built in 1999 with statues of 8 distinguished Riojans: Fausto Elhuyar (chemist), García of Nájera (king of Navarre), Gonzalo de Berceo (Medieval poet), Juan Fernández Navarrete "The Mute" (Mannerist painter), Julio Rey Pastor (mathematician), Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Roman rhetorician), Marquis of the Ensenada (statesman) and Pedro del Castillo (conquistador).
It's the best preserved part of the city wall and hosts an exhibition inside.
Bodegas Franco-Españolas was founded in 1890 as a partnership between France and Spain at a critical moment in Rioja, when the French came to the region in an attempt to replace their vineyards devastated by the wine blight, phylloxera. Visit includes wine tasting.
Iglesia de Santiago el Real
This is the site of the oldest church in the city, although the current building was constructed during the 16th century.
Museo de La Rioja
The museum is housed in a Baroque palace of the 18th century and hosts different collections featuring paintings, sculptures and furniture.
Casa de las Ciencias
It's on the other side of the river Ebro in the former slaughterhouse. It hosts different scientific exhibitions over the year. In the garden, there are some tools you can use to do your own experiments.