ARABARRI, A PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY MANAGING THE BUILDINGS THAT FORM PART OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ALAVA

 Our company, which is dependent on the Provincial Council and the associated Town Councils, has as its objective that of promoting the awareness, the conservation and the rehabilitation of the buildings which form part of the Cultural Heritage Of Alava.

Among other lines of action, Arabarri offers its collaboration in each and every one of the phases involved in the purchase and rehabilitation of buildings in the 25 Historic Centres of Alava, simplifying the procedures of access to aids and subsidies from the corresponding institutions.
The functioning of the Company has been defined as an integral management tool for the protection of the Cultural Building Heritage, using protection in its widest sense. Thus, beyond the driving force effect of private initiative, the company has been tackling, by means of the rehabilitation subsidies, all the factors which effect the recuperation and revaluation of the historic centres, creating, at the same time, the conditions which make them attractive places in which to live.

ARABARRI forms a reference source for all areas related to the Architectonic Cultural Heritage: directing the inclusion of heritage protection criteria in regional planning at provincial level; channelling the various initiatives of heritage recuperation, dealing with the public, as a single window in the Administration, in the areas of restoration-rehabilitation, and coordinating all the agents, both public and private, involved in Heritage Protection.

"Conservation of the historic towns or urban areas can only be effective if it is integrated within a coherent policy of social and economic development, and if it is taken into consideration in the provincial and urban planning at every level"

INTERNATIONAL CHARTER FOR THE CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC TOWNS AND URBAN AREAS. ICOMOS, October 1987