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Museo y biblioteca de la Real Colegiata de Roncesvalles

Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Pirineo, Navarra

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Museo y biblioteca de la Real Colegiata de Roncesvalles

Curiosity · Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Pirineo, Navarra

Orreaga/Roncesvalles

Image of Orreaga/Roncesvalles, not of the place itself.

The collegiate's museum holds the so-called "Charlemagne's chess set" and the emerald that tradition attributes to the Almohad king Miramamolín, captured as war booty at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212). Its library holds more than 15,000 volumes.

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Photo: Hayden Soloviev (CC BY 4.0)

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