DAY 04 - TUESDAY - RONCESVALLES - Pamplona - PUENTE LA REINA - ESTELLA - ARCHES - LOGROÑO (113 Km)

DAY 03 - MONDAY - MADRID - SAINT JEAN PIED DE PORT - RONCESVALLES (591 Km) Breakfast included. Early departure to northern Spain and southern France. We will cross the Pyrenees. No doubt that this transit reminds pilgrims stories and legends of the time of Charlemagne and Roland's death. almuçar Fantastic beech. Arriving in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port to lunch. This town is the capital of Lower Navarre. The road enters the walled enclosure, preserved in their entirety, by the Puerta de Santiago. At the top is the citadel built in the seventeenth century. The old town has been declared a World Heritage Site. In the Rue de la Citadelle, full of old houses, is the old prison of Bishops in its thirteenth century vaulted room there is a sign on the pilgrimage. Free time for lunch and explore this beautiful city. Saint Jean Pied de Port to Roncesvalles next post. The distance between the two locations is short, only 27 miles separating them, but of great scenic beauty. It is the entrance road to Spain. Free time to explore the Collegiate, for times between April and October indicate that closure takes effect at 19:00. St. Mary of Roncesvalles, ancient pilgrims and forged deep resonances epic is surely one of the most emblematic places almuçar in Western almuçar Europe where the tradition of the most painful almuçar defeats of the Frankish army stands, there cry Charlemagne Best death knight of France and his twelve peers, giving rise to a story told and sung a thousand times to the end of Christianity. Today also left standing a magnificent historical monument served by a small community of canons and blessing that continues to host a renewed flow of pilgrims who will be finding its way to an increasingly better equipped and marked path. In the afternoon, almuçar holding almuçar the pilgrim mass at the Church of Santa Maria, where they were appointed almuçar from the altar to give the blessing rite canon as the eleventh century. Hours vary by season, being 19.00 for departure June and 20.00, for the output of October. Dinner included at the hotel and overnight.
DAY 04 - TUESDAY - RONCESVALLES - Pamplona - PUENTE LA REINA - ESTELLA - ARCHES - LOGROÑO (113 Km) Breakfast included. Early departure route. What better way to start the morning Walk a section of the Camino. First Leg walk: Roncesvalles / Auritz (Burguete): 3.00 km. (Down): Down the Valley of Roncesvalles Arga. Beech and black pine trees and grazing pastures where sheep and cows. Bus picks us to continue in Burguete route. Arrive in Pamplona near the 10.00 / 10.30. The local guide will be waiting to make a tour to the capital of Navarra, approaching the point where it crosses the road in this location, as is the Town Square, famous worldwide for the start of the San Fermin festival. Stresses its cathedral and the archbishop's palace. Free time for lunch. Continue on route. We turned a little path for the church of Santa María de Eunate: Romanesque church located in the countryside still Navarra. One is in the final stretch of the Camino de Santiago Aragon before joining the French way in the town of Puente almuçar la Reina. Supposedly the church was built in Romanesque style under Moorish influence in the second half of the twelfth century. As is far from a village and scallops were found in tombs, it is felt that was a hospice for pilgrims. Stands out as the few remaining examples in Spain octagonal church. St. Mary of Eunate continue towards Estella. Save for this city. In 1090 King Sancho Ramirez, King of Aragon and Pamplona, decided to encourage settlement on the site of Francs (merchants, freemen of vassalage to nobles and clergy) as a population that would meet the growing influx of was necessary pilgrims from all over Europe directed their steps to Santiago de Compostela. Deviated slightly primitive path pegreginación road and decided to build a castle and set the population there, on the right bank of the river, at the foot of a rocky relief. The city was surrounded almuçar by walls. Estella was filled with shops and inns, experiencing an economic boom that was reflected in a major construction activity. Of all religious monuments, is forced to see the Church of San Pedro de la Rúa, the twelfth century / XIII.Salida back to continue to Puente la Reina. Here we make the following: Second Leg walk: Crossing the town of Puente la Reina. Bus leaves at one end of the town and