PAMPLONA

    CHURCH OF SAINT MARY OF EUNATE , PAMPLONA:

           The Church of Saint Mary of Eunate is a 12th-century Romanesque church located about 2 km south-east of Muruzábal, Navarre, Spain, on the Way of Saint James. Its origins are disputed due to lack of documentation. Its octagonal plan and the fact that it is not located in a present-day village or town but in the countryside contribute to its enigmatic nature. It is a famous site on the French Way path of the Camino de Santiago.

The church is built of dressed stone and its plan is a slightly irregular octagon with a little three-side apse. It presents the typical architectural features of the European Romanesque art (dressed-stone masonry, robust walls, semicircular arches, little windows made of alabaster, etc.) as well as some other local Romanesque characteristics like the chessboard-shape decoration in Navarre and Aragon.

           Built in 1170, its origin is unclear. Some historians have suggested the possibility that it was the work of the Knights Templars and a hospital of the Order of St. John, while popular tradition attributes its construction to a queen or noble lady whose tomb lies beneath the stones, in order to serve as her funeral chapel.

•   LOCATION

     

At Mururzábal (in the valley of Valdizarbe), on the route of the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago from Toulouse just before it converges in Puente la Reina with the route from Orreaga/Roncesvalles, the church of St. Mary of Eunate rises up, solitary and yet imposing, an unusual, beautiful and evocative example of Romanesque architecture which has been declared a national monument.

ANALYSIS OF THE CHURCH

This is a piece of art about architecture, it is a church. 

              

• Layout:

It has octogonal shape, because 8=∞, it’s only one space, so it doesn't have any naves. The apse is located in the back of the church, there is the althar. There are two big walls that surround the church and they also have octogonal shape. Also have octogonal windows on the roof.

The weight is supported by columns and the interior wall is supported by columns too.

• Interior:

There aren’t any type of paintings but the apse is decorated with flowers

• Materials:

   -Stone

TRADING CITY

• TRADING CITY BEFORE :

In  75-74 BC the area served as a camp for the roman  general Pompey  in the war against Sertorius  He is considered to be the founder of Pompaelo , which became Pamplona, in modern Spanish .

At that time pamplona was very strong  but they had a lot of invasions from other kingdoms . 

 On the 1000 year The final judgment  day was approaching so the people were frightened because they were very religious and they wanted to go to heaven . They think that  if they do religious things they will  have more possibilities to go to heaven and Jesus is going to dont judge them . At that time it was very famous and because of this the city of Pamplona started growing Especially after 1083, traffic on the Way of St James brought prosperity and new cultures via travelers from north of the Pyrenees. In Navarra, with few exceptions, only measured urban centers received trade fairs during the 13th and 14th centuries. The towns with a fair before the 14th were Estella, Tudela, Olite, San Juan de Pie de Puerto and Pamplona, ​​not by chance the most populated in the kingdom, which already had previous weekly markets and had more or less developed manufacturing industries.

TRADING NOWADAYS:

Nowadays in Pamplona there are 203.944 habitants. Spanish is the official language, and is spoken by the entire population, but they also speak Euskera.

Travelers like to visit Pamplona in the middle of July will have a chance to witness a holiday of ultimate beauty being the San Fermines festival. Each year the festival starts on July 6 and lasts for 9 days. For this period the city of Pamplona turns into a huge bullfight arena.This bright ethnic fest was described in the novel “Fiesta” by Ernest Hemingway. The writer first visited the event in 1923.

Pamplona is one of the oldest cities of the country which persistently stuns its guests with a variety of architectural and historical landmarks and sights. The most interesting destination for tourists in the city is its historical center as it accumulates a major part of sights and landmarks. The main symbol of Pamplona is the Cathedral which was established in 1390. The construction of the majestic religious building being a stunning sample of Gothic style lasted till 1527. 

             pamplona nowadays

Per year, the Camino of Santiago is covered by more than 89.00 people from other countries. When they arrived at Santiago de Compostela, in the cathedral of Santiago, there we could find his bons so people could watch them.  People that want to do it, have to walk more than 100km.  

            CAMINO DE SANTIAGO