| Santo Domingo de la Calzada | |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Spanish |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | Santo Domingo de la Calzada |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Spain La Rioja#Spain |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in La Rioja##Location in Spain |
| Coordinates: | 42.4419°N -2.9525°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Spain |
| Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous Community |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | La Rioja |
| Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
| Subdivision Name3: | Santo Domingo de la Calzada |
| Leader Party: | PSOE |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Agustín García Metola |
| Area Total Km2: | 40 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | (AMSL) |
| Elevation M: | 641 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST (GMT +2) |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 26250 |
| Area Code: | +34 (Spain) + 941 (La Rioja) |
| Website: | Town Hall |
Santo Domingo de la Calzada is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain, situated on the banks of the Oja River. Its name refers to its founder, Dominic de la Calzada, who built a bridge, hospital, and hotel here for pilgrims on the French Way the most popular path of the Way of St. James. He began construction of the town's Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is buried within and it is dedicated to him.[1]
Philosopher Gustavo Bueno Martínez was born here in 1924.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada is also the site of the miracle of the "hanged innocent" a pilgrim wrongly accused of theft. The witnesses for his successful appeal, a pair of beheaded, supposedly cooked chickens are represented by their descendants, a pair of whom are kept at all times in the choir loft of the cathedral. Other descendants are kept in the local pilgrimage refuge.[2]