We are in the urban centre or Elexalde neighbourhood of the municipality of Gorliz, where the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Town Hall and the pelota [handball] court are located in Plaza de la Iglesia, thus forming a group of three characteristic and traditional elements: the religious, the civil or administrative and the recreational.
The current Town Hall building was inaugurated as the Town Hall in 1988.
The building formerly housed the public school. On the front façade of the building, two entrance doors had “boys” and “girls” written above them. One of them was later used as the entrance to the public library.
In the space between the Town Hall and the Church of the Immaculate Conception, during the remodelling of the car park in 2008, archaeological remains from the high medieval period were found, which are of great interest in terms of historical heritage. For this reason, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia embarked on and carried out an archaeological intervention, which documented uninterrupted human occupation from the 7th to the 18th century. Its importance is twofold: on the one hand, the magnitude of the documented sequence (between the 18th and 10th centuries), and on the other hand, the fact that it is one of the few settlements of this type along the Cantabrian coast.
There is a specific explanatory panel in the square explaining the archaeological find.
The Elexalde pelota court rounds off the Square’s heritage site.