Roncesvalles
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| General Data , ), this is where Roland , leading the rearguard of the army of Charlemagne was surprised 15 August 778 by the Basques. The Basques (ancestors of Basques and Gascon ) have laid a trap at Roland who came to loot and burn their capital, Pamplona. He sounded his horn, too late for the king to assist him. The legendary Roland breach is much further east in the central Pyrenees, above the circus Gavarnie , in the department of Hautes-Pyrenees. A granite rock decorated with bas-reliefs in bronze, sings memory paladin who inspired the most famous epics.
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GeographyThe pass of Roncesvalles , located about fifty miles north of Pamplona , is the former axial passage of Ibaeta to 1066 m altitude, natural passageway used since prehistoric times to access the Iberian Peninsula. The highlight of this town is Mount Ortzanzurieta with its 1567 m The pilgrims of Saint-Jacques were houses and religious institutions to Roncesvalles to welcome them, at the foot of Ibaeta, which was fought the famous battle against the Carolingians . The rearguard of Charlemagne's army has been defeated and routed by the Basques. Over time, it continues to be an enclave for the pilgrims of the fundamental way of Saint Jacques. The Camino Francs arrives by Ibaeta and Roncesvalles, the same that ran Aymeric Picaud the twelfth century, which leads to Obanos , very close to Puente la Reina ( Navarra ), with that comes the Somport via Huesca ( Aragon ), also in Pyrenees and known as the Camino Aragones. The name Roncesvalles  Roncesvalles was traditionally the place name translates as "Valley of hawthorn, and the name in Basque Based on this interpretation: Orreaga" instead of juniper, it is probably the corruption of the previous name "Orierriaga. Other theories as the origin give the name "Erro-Zabal," the "plain of Erro , the valley that Roncesvalles was associated for many centuries. The successive movements of pilgrims have come franciser name: Rozabal, Ronzaval, Orreaga / Roncesvalles, and finally Roncesvalles. Without doubt, the French influence is also a consequence of the tragic memories of the failure of the army of Charlemagne in 778. Nevertheless, the name of Roncesvalles was originally referred to the small plain, then, from the twelfth century , the common origin of the current Auritz-Burguete. A few decades later, after the founding of the Collegiate Church was the town of differentiation and the hospital. The first, known as "Village of Roncesvalles" or even "Roncesvalles" during the Middle Ages , and finally had to be known by the name "Burguete" ("little town") because of its size. Although it was founded later, the hospital has appropriated the old toponym. Notes on place namesThe names Latin and Roman used since the Middle Ages to refer to the enclave Pyrenees, are numerous and varied. So few are regarded as erroneous because of misinterpretations of copyists and characters far from Navarra, the spellings and other erroneous derived or assumed they were poorly written. Here are a few: Errozabal, Roncidevallibus, Roncisdevalles, Roncisdevallis, Roncisvalle, Roncisvallis, Roncisvals, Ronsasvals, Ronzalsvals, Roscidavallis, Rozavalles, Runcevallis, Runciavallis, Runciavalle, Runzasvals, Rainchevaux, Rencelvals, Rencesvals, Renceval, Renchevax, Rescesval, Roncalli, brambles , Ronasvals, Roncavallis, Roncavalls, Roncavallus, Roncesvalles, Roncevalles, Roncevalles, Roncesvalhes, Roncevax, Roncesvalles. Ibaneta also had the same due to inaccurate interpretations of the legendary memories of this region so special: "Pyrenei jugo", "Pyrenei saltus summitate", "Summi Portus", "Vertex Pyrenei Wasconum", "montis that Vertice dicitur Ronsasvals" " Summi montis verticae "," Mons who Ronsasvals dicitur "," Monti Runciavallis dicitur "," Capella Carol "," Capella Rotolandi "," Hospital Rollandi "," Hospitale Rotolandi "," Hospital Summo Portu, "" Hospital Sant Salvador Port of Summit "," Sant Salvador Monasterium Ybenieta "," Monasterium Sanctus Salvator, "" Hospital of Sancti Salvatore "," San Salvador Ibaeta "Ecclesia Sancti Salvatoris ... The upper Valcarlos was known as "Portus Ciseri", "Puerto de Csera", "Portus Cisreos" and "Porz of Sizer," not to be confused with "Port Cize" proposed by Picaud , in connection with the crossing Roman ridges. The Valcarlos itself derives from "Vallis Carol" and "Karlestal" space that occupies the international border of Arneguy and neck Moccosalia , where tradition requires that Charlemagne had camped in the middle of the Basques who were trying to destroy the rear guard. Administration
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Language DivisionIn accordance with Law 18/1986 of 15 December Foral the Basque , Navarre is linguistically divided into three zones. This municipality is part of the Basque-speaking area where the use of Basque has a majority. Basque and Castilian are used in public administration, media, cultural events and education, but the use of Basque is common and encouraged more often. HistoryRoncesvalles has always been a way to access the Iberian Peninsula. Roncesvalles penetrated the Celtic , the barbarians (409), the Visigoths who settled along the Ribera del Duero and, naturally, Charlemagne with the most powerful army in the eighth century, en route to Zaragoza. Charlemagne, after the failure of his expedition to Zaragoza, decided to burn down Pamplona , capital of the kingdom of Navarre. He returned to France via the Pyrenees and between the neck of the ravine and Ibaeta Valcarlos, he had to undergo an ambush of native Basque region. This was the battle of Roncesvalles. The Song of Roland , written somewhere in France in the late eleventh century , attributes the disaster, located between Roncesvalles and Burguete, the attackers were not Basque but Saracens. The former hospital chapel and pilgrims of Ibaeta were transferred there in 1132 on the orders of the Bishop of Pamplona, Sancho Larrosa. In recent years, the great charity of the canons of St. Augustine responsible for the reception earned them many gifts from the four corners of Navarra, Spain and several countries in Europe. The pilgrims, whose flow could range between 30 000 and 50 000 at a time of anniversaries , there were until the seventeenth century received, maintained and fed for three days. Damaged by an avalanche in the sixteenth century , the monastery had also suffered from the French imperial army during its reflux in Spain. Anyway, this monument, the starting point of the Camino francs , is a Mecca of the European path of Saint Jacques. For twenty years, the tradition of hospitality has been restored by the small community canonical (now secular) who faces an increasing influx of pilgrims. In 1982 the monastery was reopened for the reception of pilgrims Culture and HeritageThe pilgrimage to SantiagoOn the Camino Navarro 's pilgrimage to St. Jacques de Compostela. We just Valcarlos , the next is common Espinal. The Real collegiate church of Santa Maria Main article: Royal Collegiate of Roncesvalles. La Cruz de los PeregrinosThis "cross the Pilgrims" is about 300 meters south of Roncesvalles on the left side of the road to Burguete. It is a stone Gothic nightmare of the fourteenth century , decorated with the image of the Virgin and effigies of King Sancho VII the Strong and his wife Clemence.
CiviliansThe Museum of the Collegiate Housed in the old stables , it has very fine pieces (of silverware old: box Mudejar Gospel novel, shrine of the fourteenth century enamel, etc.).. References
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