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 · The origins of the Santiago's Way


 · The first hospitals


 · "Liber Sancti Jacobi"


 · Santiago in Roncesvalles




Inside Santiago's chapel, located next to the "Silo de Carlomagno".
After passing through Ultrapuertos, leaving the Pyrenean behind, Orreaga- Roncesvalles signifies for the pilgrim, the door to the last stretch of the Way, although there are 700 km left to reach the goal. The pilgrims consider it the second main point of the Jacobean Way, after the cathedral of Compostela, due to the historic and symbolic strength of the artistic collection there.

The small and simple gothic chapel located next to the "Silo de Carlomagno", is the only building in Orreaga- Roncesvalles, which honours the worship of St. James. It preserves a singular element, the bell of the old chapel in Ibañeta, whose mission was to give hope to the pilgrims who were ascending the northern slope of the Pyrenean. The pilgrimage to Compostela and the Carolingian world, are the central purposes of Orreaga- Roncesvalles.