scruffy1
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
Navarette is located between Logroño and Nájera, a place far too often all but ignored as pilgrims fly by hoping to make that 30k day. Navarette is an extremely interesting town, the albergue situated in an arched promenade, good food good wine, and like all Spanish the people there love a good statue and there are many all about. The church is the amazing bit, not much to look at from the outside, the inside dark and uninviting lit only by some few electronic "candles" ... until someone finds the coin box which illuminates the interior! Bronze! Silver!! Gold!!! Apparently a conquistador brought back all the Aztec treasure he could filch and decorated the church. It is an unexpected treasure. So, slow down for some few moments, the church is on the Camino up some few steps past the statues spend a dime and be flabbergasted!