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What to see and do in Auritz/Burguete

What to see and do in Auritz/Burguete (Pirineo, Navarra): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities

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June: San Juan y San Nicolás en Burguete (June 23 and December 6)

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What to see and do in Auritz/Burguete

Auritz/Burguete
Village
Auritz/Burguete, at 894 m altitude, is the first Navarrese locality that pilgrims on the Camino Francés reach after descending from Roncesvalles. Its linear street-village layout, with large houses bearing coats of arms lined up on both sides of the pilgrim route, sits on an ancient settlement: the Zaldua site has yielded Roman remains, including baths, along the route of the road linking Astorga and Bordeaux. Ernest Hemingway stayed here during his fishing trips in the 1920s and set chapters of "The Sun Also Rises" in the village. It has 235 inhabitants (INE 2025).
Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari, Burguete
Monument
Documented since at least 1104 and rebuilt several times after successive fires -its current appearance dates from a restoration carried out between 1945 and 1968-, it preserves a Baroque doorway from 1699. It presides over Calle Mayor, along which runs the French Camino de Santiago, and in 2014 it was listed as an element associated with the Camino, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993; this is a distinct and lesser-ranking recognition than the direct inscription received by the Real Colegiata de Roncesvalles.
Puente de Arrobi, Burguete
Monument
A medieval bridge of Romanesque origin that crosses the Urrobi river as it passes through Burguete, on the stretch of the French Camino de Santiago between Roncesvalles and Espinal.
Cementerio de Burguete
Curiosity
Designed in 1964 by the Pamplona architect Miguel Gortari Beiner, the cemetery of Burguete broke with tradition by prohibiting mausoleums that would distinguish some of the deceased from others, and by representing the cycle of life with the Greek letters alpha and omega in its oval layout. In 2014 it was chosen the best cemetery in Spain in the first national competition organized by the magazine Adiós Cultural together with the Asociación de Empresarios de Servicios Funerarios (Association of Funeral Service Businesses).
San Juan y San Nicolás en Burguete
Activity
On 23 June, the night of San Juan, bonfires are lit accompanied by the mutil-dantza. On 6 December, the feast of San Nicolás, patron saint of the village, residents hang red apples on his image. Burguete has also hosted, since the 14th century, a livestock fair in September that used to bring together traders from across the Pyrenees.