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What to see and do in Ribaforada

What to see and do in Ribaforada (Ribera, Navarra): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities

When to go to Ribaforada: festival calendar

February: Fiestas de San Blas de Ribaforada (February 3)
August: El Paloteado de Ribaforada (August 24)

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What to see and do in Ribaforada

Ribaforada
Village
A town founded around 1157 by the Knights Templar, who built their fortified convent here; after the order's suppression in 1313 it passed to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, who held it until the 19th century. The expulsion of the Moriscos left it depopulated to barely 35 inhabitants in the 17th century, and it did not recover until the opening of the Canal Imperial de Aragón in 1784.
Iglesia de San Blas de Ribaforada
Monument
A 12th-century Mudéjar church, remodeled in the 16th and 17th centuries, with a bell gable restored in the 1990s.
Villa romana de San Gregorio de Ribaforada
Monument
A Roman site found in September 2017, with a hypocaust villa dated to the 2nd century that preserves the only Roman oven discovered in Navarre to date.
El Paloteado de Ribaforada
Activity
A folk theatrical performance that takes place at eleven at night on 24 August, during the patronal festivities of San Bartolomé.
Fiestas de San Blas de Ribaforada
Activity
Ribaforada's winter festival in honor of San Blas, celebrated on 3 February, with the distribution of some 3,000 blessed roscos (ring-shaped buns).
José de Armendáriz, virrey del Perú
Curiosity
The soldier José de Armendáriz y Perurena (1670-1740), a native of Ribaforada, rose to become Viceroy of Peru.