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Data of the Town |
Towers Del Rio or of Sansol |
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Town |
Locality: Towers of the Rio |
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Municipality / council |
Merindad: Estella / Region: Viana |
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Province |
Navarre |
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Community |
Navarrese Jurisdiction |
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inhabitants 2003 |
169 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
c / East, 1 |
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ZIP code |
31229 |
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Phones |
948-648126 |
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Fax |
948-648126 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Towers Del Rio |
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Web of Interest |
Towers of the Rio, I populate of Estella |
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E-mail municipality |
alcalmod@cfna varra.es |
The hamlet, of irregular tracing, gets ready in the hillsides of a hill towards a hollow in the confluence of the rivers Linares and Mariñanas, in full route jacobea. It counts with one of the jewels of Romanesque Spanish, her church of the Holy Tomb, which interior receives the beautiful size of the Crucified one. Her church of the Holy Tomb is a Romanesque temple of the XIIth century, that resembles the basilica of the same name in Jerusalem. It has plant octogonal. The church of San Andrés, of Gothic style- Renaissance man was constructed at the end of the XVIth century. Of reduced plant of Latin cross has the head octogonal and robust walls of chairs in the exterior. From his civil architecture they emphasize some baroque houses with decorative escutcheons in his fronts.
Her church of Holy Tomb of Towers of the Rio or of Sansol, also this way named by the near hill of this name, continues that in his it plants the infrequent pattern octogonal already seen on that of Eunate. To just as that one served of lighthouse - guide favor his top lantern to face in the night the pilgrims in transit towards Santiago.