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La leyenda del nombre de Adiós

Adiós, Valdizarbe-Novenera, Navarra

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La leyenda del nombre de Adiós

Curiosity · Adiós, Valdizarbe-Novenera, Navarra

Image of Adiós, not of the place itself.

Oral tradition holds that the village's name arose from the withdrawal of Castilian troops during the War of the Navarrería in 1276, who are said to have bid farewell saying "a Dios, a Dios" ("goodbye, goodbye"). The documentary record disproves the anecdote, since the place-name already appears recorded in 1256, twenty years before the episode supposedly giving rise to it.

1276

Photo: Patxi Txokarro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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