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All things Romanesque #1

scruffy1

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Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
I am planning to begin from Le Puy next Spring, hoping to make it at least until Pamplona and hopefully more before the heat starts-Logrono would be about halfway and a good place to stop before I melt and run down into my boots. My reading into history art and architecture especially my greatest love, the Romanesque, often leads me far afield but not this time. I have discovered what appears to be a Romanesque gem, leaving Cirauqui, down the Roman road and by the aqueduct and the river the Camino continues westward towards Estella. At that river should one turn north on the Alloz road there is a village called Lácar (no, not Lorca) and the Romanesque church of Santa María de Eguiarte somehow apparently connected with the Casa Ruale La Sacristana. Cirauqui- Lácar-Lorca-Estella by Google is less then 20 kilometers and not a serious detour or out lost wandering in the desert. Has anyone actually been there? Can describe what they saw? Anything would be appreciated. Thank you
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Scruffy,

I haven't been there yet, but now thanks to you I will plan to visit the church on my next camino late in October.

For photos of the Santa MarĂ­a de Eguiarte church see >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/sets/72157623528911141/

and >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/4446877731/.

Carving on the capitals resembles some at San Juan Ortega.

For the ex monastery buildings which are now an EXPENSIVE casa rurale see http://www.lasacristana.com/

Buen Camino,

Margaret
PS Cirauqui isn't bad either!
 
Hi, scruffy,

Impossible for me to resist commenting when the word romanesque is used! I don't know if you've seen this map, but it has a fair number of entries dealing with churches all across Spain. Curiously, though, the two you mention are not on the map.
http://www.romanicoaragones.com/5-MapaActivo/Espana.htm

This second site focuses exclusively on Romanesque art in Navarra and has a lot more information. The two churches you mention are on Map XI. http://www.romanicoennavarra.info/indexarz.htm -- it looks like there are many many possible detours, how can we do them all?!

I hope you take this detour and report back! Buen camino, Laurie
 
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