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Data of the Town |
Orreaga Roncesvalles |
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Town |
Locality: Orreaga-Roncesvalles |
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Municipality / council |
Merindad: Sangüesa / Region: Pyrenees Western |
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Province |
Navarre |
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Community |
Navarrese Jurisdiction |
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inhabitants 2003 |
26 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
c / the Only, s/n |
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ZIP code |
31650 |
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Phones |
948-760032 |
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Fax |
948-790477 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Orreaga Roncesvalles, official page of the Collegiate church |
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Web of Interest |
Orreaga-Roncesvalles, tourist card Roncesvalles, Real Collegiate church, Museum and Sancti Spiritus |
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E-mail municipality |
alcalmod@cfna varra.es |
Heiress of the ancient Hospital of Pilgrims founded in the Xth century, remains governed by a canons community that attend to the current pilgrims and visitors. He emphasizes his Gothic school church of French influence.
He presides at the Collegiate church of Santa Maria of Roncesvalles, under one baldaquino modern, a magnificent sculpture of Virgin of Roncesvalles.
One of the singular pieces of the Roncesvalles treasure, and of Navarrese medieval gold work, constitutes it Evangeliario (29 '3 x 20' 3) of partially golden silver. it dates in the second quarter of the XIIIth century being an example of transit of the Romanesque one to the Gothic.
In one of the dependencies of the first floor of the building of Library of the Collegiate church of Roncesvalles child has organized one museum that lodges diverse pieces of painting and sculpture.
Source I govern of Navarrese: The Collegiate church of Roncesvalles lodges a rich library and an interesting museum where he emphasizes the Chess of Carlomagno between interesting others pieces. The architectural set of Roncesvalles completes with the small Gothic chapel of Santiago or of the Pilgrims and her Romanesque of Sancti Spiritu or also called Silo of Carlomagno, for being a popular belief that here the pairs of France buried dead in the Battle of Roncesvalles.
It is a place loaded with legend, favored undoubtedly by the beautiful one and evocative scenery in which it is located. The School Church dates of the century XIII and it lodges to the smiling Gothic image of the Virgin of Orreaga. From the cloister (reconstructed in the XVIIth) we gain access to the Room To agree that the Fortress receives the Mausoleum of king Sancho VII. It is illuminated by the light that leaks a shop window of beginning of the XXth that illustrates the victory of the king over the Almohad ones in the Plain mountains of Toulouse (1212), from which there were brought the chains that compose the shield of Navarre and that we can see in this room.
The Collegiate church lodges a rich library and an interesting museum where he emphasizes the Chess of Carlomagno between interesting others pieces. The architectural set of Roncesvalles completes with the small Gothic chapel of Santiago or of the Pilgrims and her Romanesque of Sancti Spiritu or also called Silo of Carlomagno, for being a popular belief that here the pairs of France buried dead in the Battle of Roncesvalles.