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Data of the Town |
Javier |
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Town |
Locality: Javier |
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Municipality / council |
Merindad: Sangüesa / Region: Sangüesa |
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Province |
Navarre |
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Community |
Navarrese Jurisdiction |
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inhabitants 2003 |
77 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
c / The Saint, 1 |
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ZIP code |
31411 |
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Phones |
948-884036 |
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Fax |
948-884036 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
I populate Javier's, castle, basilica, San Francisco Javier, official page |
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Web of Interest |
Javier, I populate of Navarre, Javier's castle |
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E-mail municipality |
alcalmod@cfna varra.es |
475m on the sea level. In the town and fortitude was born and Javier lived through San Francisco. He emphasizes the Church of Santa Maria raised at the beginning of the XVIIIth century in the place occupied by another missing bajomedieval. Javier's Castle in the XIth century was a simple isolated lookout it is provided with the Tower of Saint Christ attached to the wall fulfills a double function: military man defensive and of chapel placed in his first floor for the residents in him. In her he emphasizes the image of the crucified one. In the south side it finds the tower of the Homage. At present room of San Francisco is provided with a museum dedicated to the life of the Saint, closets and tools of the epoch and her .
At certain distance, to the east of the Castle the nucleus is urban of Javier, in whom the neighbors of this municipality live. It was constructed at the beginning of the decade of 1960 to lodge those who were inhabiting the ancient houses that were getting up in the precincts of the Castle and that were in ruins to accommodate the environment to monumental importance of the set.
Before his consistorial house a modern bronze sculpture gets up that represents Francisco de Javier, it acts of artist Francisco Aizcorbe.
In addition to the castle, the next parish and the downtown, Javier is provided with other points of interest that remember his importance historical: the Castelar and the Mill. Javier's Castle is final target of numerous peregrinations realized along of the year, that they are known by the popular and sonorous name of “javierada ”.
The pictorial decoration of the Chapel of Christ of Javier's castle is dedicated to the Dance of the Death. Dated in the last quarter of the XVth century, inside a Gothic advanced with some already Renaissance element. In the representation of the macabre dance of Javier, the message of transcendency of the topic is given, for the presence of Crucified, in this case a magnificent size (180 x 160) of equal chronology and style that the paintings that complete it decoration, last quarter of the XVth century.
Populations: Javier, Tower of Rock.