Mondragón Arrasate | |
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 San Andres neighbourhood of Mondragón withAnboto in the background | |
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| Coordinates:43°3′56.59″N2°29′24.42″W / 43.0657194°N 2.4901167°W /43.0657194; -2.4901167 | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous Community | Basque Country |
| Province | Gipuzkoa |
| Eskualdea | Debagoiena |
| Founded | 15 May 1260 |
| Neighbourhoods | List
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| Government | |
| • Type | City Council |
| • Mayor | María Ubarretxena Cid (PNV) |
| Area | |
• Total | 30.80 km2 (11.89 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 22,019 |
| • Density | 710/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC +2 |
| Post code | 20500 |
| Area code | +34 943 |
| Website | www |
Mondragón (Basque:Arrasate orMondragoe), officially known asArrasate/Mondragón, is a town and municipality inGipuzkoa Province,Basque Country, Spain. Its population in 2015 was 21,933.
The town is best known as the birthplace of theMondragon Corporation, the world's largestworker cooperative, whose foundation was inspired in the 1940s by the Catholic priestJosé María Arizmendiarrieta. In 2002 the MCC contributed 3.7% to the totalGDP of theBasque Country and 7.6% to the industrial GDP.
The valley of the HighDeba where the town is located enjoyed a high level of employment in the 1980s while the rest of the Basque industrial areas suffered from the steel crisis.
Noted poverty expert and sociology professor Barbara J. Peters ofStony Brook Southampton has studied the incorporated and entirely resident-owned town of Mondragón. "In Mondragón, I saw no signs of poverty. I saw no signs of extreme wealth," Peters said. "I saw people looking out for each other…. It's a caring form of capitalism."[2]
Thespa at Santa Águeda (now a psychiatric hospital) was the location of the 1897 murder of Spanishmonarchist politicianAntonio Cánovas del Castillo byMichele Angiolillo.
Mondragón serves as base ofMondragón University, a private university created in 1997, that is connected with the MCC companies. Almost all of the university's graduates find their first job within three months after completing their studies due to this strong link.
Mondragón University is divided into engineering, humanities, and enterprise faculties. The faculty of engineering is in Mondragon andGoierri. The humanities faculty is inEskoriatza and the enterprise faculty is inBidasoa andOñati. The student enrollment is approximately 3,500 and is rapidly growing. The majority of the students are fromGipuzkoa and surrounding villages, although in the last few years, the number of students fromBilbao,San Sebastián, and the Basque Country capital,Vitoria-Gasteiz, has increased significantly.
After the establishment of democracy, the first mayor elected in Mondragón was the nationalistJosé Antonio Ardanza, who served from 1979 to 1983 and later becamelehendakari of theBasque government from 1985 to 1999.
Pierre Boutron'sFrench language filmFiesta!, adapted from a novel written byJosé Luis de Vilallonga, was set in Mondragón during theSpanish Civil War.[3]
Excavating at the Artazu VII site located in the Kobate Quarry in Arrasate.[4]
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