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Convento de Arizkun y su órgano de la "flauta vasca"

Baztan, Baztan-Bidasoa, Navarra

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Convento de Arizkun y su órgano de la "flauta vasca"

Monument · Baztan, Baztan-Bidasoa, Navarra

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The enclosed Poor Clares' convent at Arizkun preserves an organ unique in Navarre, known as the 'flauta vasca' (Basque flute). A local tradition holds that couples about to marry would offer eggs to the cloistered nuns asking for good weather on their wedding day, a custom still occasionally practised today.

Photo: Iñaki LL (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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