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Data of the Town |
Muruzabal |
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Town |
Locality: Muruzabal |
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Municipality / council |
Merindad: Pamplona / Region: Bridge her He reigns |
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Province |
Navarre |
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Community |
Navarrese Jurisdiction |
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inhabitants 2003 |
293 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
c / Esteban Pérez Tafalla, 2 |
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ZIP code |
31152 |
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Phones |
948-344062 |
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Fax |
948-344062 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Muruzabal, the Romanesque splendor of Eunate |
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Web of Interest |
Eunate, the Romanesque one in Santa Maria |
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E-mail municipality |
muruzabal@animsa.es |
Muruzabal occupies a completely flat area and his streets and squares offer a wide and luminous aspect. There are large houses with beautiful portals of stone and showy shields nobiliary, between others, the grand palace of the Marquess of Zabalegui. The church of the Town is dedicated to San Esteban and it is of the XIVth century. His management holidays, in honor of the above mentioned saint, celebrate on August 3. It is of few small Towns that it keeps the date unremovable, without trying to make them coincide with a weekend. Her authentic jewel of this Town is Eunate. A flatness gets up in the middle of , in an intimate place where solitude is breathed. It belongs to the second half of the XIIth century. The building performs form octogonal and it occupies the geographical center of Navarre.
It is part of Way of Santigo. Of Romanesque style, XIIth century was constructed in . The polygonal arcade that surrounds it is the origin of his name, since Eunate means hundred doors in Basque. he constructed during the second half of the XIIth century, about 1170, and his origin is uncertain, several historians relate with order it would moderate, like his sister octogonal of Towers of the Rio.