Roncesvalles
Roncesvalles is in Navarra, Spain. It's the first city on the Spanish side of the French Way of the Camino de Santiago.- Type: Village with 25 residents
- Description: Municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “31211”, “Orreaga”, “Orreaga / Roncesvalles”, and “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roncevaux Pass and Capilla de Santiago.
Roncevaux Pass
Mountain saddle
Roncesvalles Pass, Ronceval Pass or Roncevaux Pass is a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees near the border between France and Spain. The pass itself is entirely in Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burguete – Auritz and Espinal.
Burguete – Auritz
Village
Burguete or Auritz is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Ernest Hemingway lodged in Burguete in 1924 and 1925 for a fishing trip to the Irati river, and describes it in his novel The Sun Also Rises.
Espinal
Hamlet
Espinal is a Spanish town and council in the municipality of Erro in the Chartered Community of Navarre. It is located in Merindad de Sangüesa, in the Auñamendi region. Espinal is situated 5 km southwest of Roncesvalles.
Roncesvalles
- Categories: municipality of Spain, town, and locality
- Location: Navarre, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.0092° or 43° 0′ 33″ north
Longitude
-1.3202° or 1° 19′ 13″ west
Population
25
Elevation
1,020 metres (3,346 feet)
Open location code
8CMW2M5H+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Roncesvalles” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Albanian: “Roncesvalles”
- Arabic: “رنشفالة”
- Arabic: “رونسيسباييس”
- Aragonese: “Roncesvals”
- Aragonese: “Ronzesbals”
- Armenian: “Ռոնսեսվալյես”
- Asturian: “Orreaga”
- Basque: “Orreaga”
- Basque: “Orriaga”
- Breton: “Orreaga”
- Breton: “Roncesvalles”
- Breton: “Ronceveaux”
- Bulgarian: “Ронсесвайес”
- Catalan: “Roncesvalls”
- Cebuano: “Orreaga/Roncesvalles”
- Chechen: “Ронсесвальес”
- Chinese: “龍塞斯瓦列斯”
- Chinese: “龙塞斯瓦列斯”
- Czech: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Danish: “Roncesvalles”
- Dutch: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Dutch: “Orreaga”
- Dutch: “Roncesvalles”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رنشفاله”
- Esperanto: “Roncesvalles”
- Finnish: “Orreaga”
- French: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- French: “Orreaga”
- French: “Roncesvalles”
- French: “Roncevaux”
- Galician: “Orreaga - Roncesvalles”
- Galician: “Orreaga”
- Galician: “Roncesvales”
- Galician: “Roncesvalles”
- Georgian: “რონსესვალიესი”
- German: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- German: “Orreaga”
- German: “Roncesvalles”
- German: “Roncesvaux”
- German: “Roncevalles”
- Greek: “Ρονσέβω”
- Hebrew: “קרב מעבר רונסבו”
- Hungarian: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Hungarian: “Roncesvalles”
- Interlingua: “Roncesvalles”
- Irish: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Italian: “Orreaga”
- Italian: “Roncisvalle”
- Japanese: “ロンセスバージェス”
- Japanese: “ロンセスバーリェス”
- Ladin: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Lithuanian: “Ronsesvaljesas”
- Lombard: “Roncisvalle”
- Macedonian: “Ронсесвалјес”
- Malay: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Malay: “Roncesvalles”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ronçasvals”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roncesvals”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roncesvaus”
- Polish: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Polish: “Roncesvalles”
- Portuguese: “Orreaga-Roncesvales”
- Portuguese: “Orreaga”
- Portuguese: “Roncesvales”
- Portuguese: “Roncesvalles”
- Portuguese: “Ronzesbals”
- Russian: “Ронсесвальес”
- Slovenian: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Slovenian: “Orreaga”
- Slovenian: “Roncesvalles”
- Spanish: “Orreaga”
- Spanish: “Roncesvalles”
- Swedish: “Orreaga/Roncesvalles”
- Swedish: “Orreaga”
- Tatar: “Ронсесвальес”
- Turkish: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Turkish: “Roncesvalles”
- Ukrainian: “Орреага”
- Ukrainian: “Орреаґа”
- Ukrainian: “Ронсесвальєс”
- Urdu: “رونسیس ویلز”
- Uzbek: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Uzbek: “Roncesvalles”
- Uzbek: “Ronsesvalyes”
- Uzbek: “Ронcесваллес”
- Uzbek: “Ронсесвалес”
- Venetian: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Venetian: “Roncisvalle”
- Vietnamese: “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Vietnamese: “Roncesvalles”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”
- Waray (Philippines): “Roncesvalles”
- Welsh: “Roncesvalles”
- Welsh: “Ronsyfal”
- Welsh: “Ronsyfál”
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