(generally, but erroneously, written Fuenterabia), a very ancient city of Spain, in the province of Guipúzcoa, and bishopric of Pamplona, and 12 miles E.N.E. of San Sebastian. It stands on the W. bank of the Bidassoa, on the slope of a hill which has the form of an amphitheatre. It is still fortified, and has a population of only 2134. The greater part of the city, however, is little else than a collection of ruined mansions, with ornamented roofs projecting over dilapidated balconies, ivy-covered battlements and broken walls, gateways, and towers. The circuit of the wall of Fuenterabia is nearly two English miles, and it is encircled from the N. by the W. and S., with a broad ditch, and defended on the E. by the river Bidassoa and its estuary. The wall and its defences are now in a much dilapidated state. The four quarterings of the arms of Fuenterabia bear an angel holding a key, a whale, two syrens, and a castle between two stars, which were bestowed by Philip IV. in 1638, when the Prince of Condé was here repulsed by the Admiral of Castile. In 1794 the French completely dismantled the place; and the inhabitants, during the winter, begrudged even lodging to the English sick soldiers, from whom the authorities of the city wished to take away even the hard boards on which the disabled were stretched; "and these," said Wellington, "are the people to whom we have given medicines . . . whose wounded and sick we have taken into our hospitals, and to whom we have rendered every service in our power, after having recovered their country from the enemy" (Nov. 27, 1813). Fuenterabia is the native place of Cristóbal de Rojas y Sandoval, chaplain to Charles V., and bishop of Oviedo, of Bajados y Córdova, and archbishop of Sevilla, who assisted at the council of Trent.