Afin d’assister les pèlerins qui franchissaient les Pyrénées dans leur chemin de Saint-Jacques, aux alentours de 1127, l’Évêque de Pampelune, à la demande du roi Alphonse le Bataillador, fonda l’institution hospitalière de Roncevaux. La récente restauration entreprise par le Gouvernement de Navarre nous permet de proposer, à l’abri de ces vieux murs, une auberge dotée des meilleures installations et services.
Où le pèlerin, après l’épuisante étape du début du Chemin en Navarre, peut se reposer et profiter de cet ensemble historique patrimonial exceptionnel.
Orreaga-Roncevaux conserve la mémoire de légendes et de chansons de gestes,
du passage de vieilles chaussées et de pèlerins harassés en route vers Compostelle
de rois qui édifièrent des hospices, des églises, des cloîtres et des chapelles
des vallées voisines qui, par amour à leur Vierge,
des hospitaliers firent et font encore honneur au sacrement d’accueil
de sa confrérie et de ses fidèles,
et de ses nombreuses croix…
Aujourd’hui, quelque chose de nouveau s’éveille à Roncevaux
Marisol is a Camino angel. If she has time while stamping your credential, be sure to have a chat. When I decided to turn back to Valcarlos due to rain, she made sure that the pilgrim she’d driven past hadn’t got lost. It turns out this is her daily routine - making sure we all get across safely. No doubt she’s saved some lives through the years. Thank you Marisol. 🙏
I am on a pilgrimage. I crossed Pyreness. And I met this place. It was good for me. Everything was convenient for pilgrimage. Beds, shower facilities, laundry and so on. And volunteers were kind and friendly.
Well organized. For 4 euros you can have your clothes washed and dried ( they will bring it at your bed). We loved the facility after our first rainy Camino day. Excellent dinner for 11 euros at the restaurant nearby
This is a huge facility accommodating alot of Peregrinos. Check in was a little cumbersome but the faciltiies were clean, new and very modern. Appreciated the to-your-bunk laundry service. Food is excellent at the associated restaurants.
I can understand why some people give three stars for this place, about 260 beds on one floor, but limited bathrooms. But I think it is a great place to stay, it’s tidy clean, well organised. Breakfast and dinner are good, it has ham included.