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Navarre

Roncesvalles

Roncesvalles is in Navarra, . It's the first city on the Spanish side of the French Way of the Camino de Santiago.
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  • Type: Village with 20 residents
  • Description: Municipality of Spain
  • Also known as: “31211”, “Orreaga”, “Orreaga / Roncesvalles”, and “Orreaga-Roncesvalles”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roncevaux Pass and Orreagako museoa.

Mountain saddle
Roncesvalles Pass, Ronceval Pass or is a high mountain pass in the near the border between and . The pass itself is entirely in Spain.

Museum
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is a museum.

Church
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burguete – Auritz and Aurizberri.

Village
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Burguete or Auritz is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of , northern . Ernest Hemingway lodged in Burguete in 1924 and 1925 for a fishing trip to the , and describes it in his novel The Sun Also Rises.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 5 km southwest of Roncesvalles.

Roncesvalles

Latitude
43.0092° or 43° 0′ 33″ north
Longitude
-1.3202° or 1° 19′ 13″ west
Population
20
Elevation
1,020 metres (3,346 feet)
Open location code
8CMW2M5H+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 252274098
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6359759
Wiki­data ID
Q917891
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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”
  • 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”
  • 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): “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”
  • 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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