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Vineyards and Pilgrim Paths

• Explore Pamplona’s • Admire the royal palace
enchanting Old Town, and in Olite, a handsome
tuck into some of the best medieval town still partly
tapas in Spain. ringed by ancient walls.
• Take a tour of a bodega in • Enjoy a picnic by the
Logroño or Haro, where river in the beautiful
much of the world-famous Valle de Salazar.
Rioja wine is produced. • Hike through the Bosque
• Be dazzled by the lavish de Irati, where you might
monastery in Santo catch a glimpse of some
Domingo de la Calzada, red deer.
where a live cock and a • Visit Roncesvalles, an
hen are still kept in honour ancient mountain town, Haro
of a miracle attributed to where Charlemagne was The grapes grown in Haro, the capital
Santo Domingo. defeated in the 8th century. of the Rioja Alta region, produce full-
Atlantic Ocean bodied wines.
Luarca
Praia das Gijón
Catedrais Ribadeo Cudillero Ribadesella
A Coruña Villaviciosa Llanes Santander Castro 0 km 50
Oviedo Cangas Comillas Laredo Urdiales 50
de Onís Covadonga Bilbao San Sebastián 0 miles
(Donostia)
Lugo (Bilbo)
Santiago de Roncesvalles Bosque
Compostela de Irati
Vitoria Pamplona Ochagavía
(Gasteiz) (Iruña) Valle de Vall d’Aran Arties
Parque Nacional de
Estella Salazar Ordesa y Monte Perdido Vielha Salardú
Haro Sangüesa Monasterio Jaca Val
de San Juan de Boí
Logroño Olite de la Peña Aínsa
Santo Domingo Castillo Sort La Seu
de la Calzada de Loarre Arcusa d’Urgell
Calahorra
Huesca Adahuesca
Castles and
Mountains
• Visit Jaca’s art-filled
cathedral, and follow
the medieval walls in the
city’s historic quarter.
• Admire the fabulous
mountain views from
the Castillo de Loarre.
• Spend a day hiking
amid the Pyrenean peaks
of the Parque Nacional de
Ordesa y Monte Perdido.
• Marvel at the murals in
the medieval churches
of the Vall de Boí.
• Explore the villages of the
Vall d’Aran, and tuck into
the excellent local cuisine.
• Enjoy thrilling whitewater
Castillo de Loarre rafting in the Catalan
A Romanesque church lies inside the walls of this 11th-century mountain town of Sort.
castle built on a rocky promontory in the Aragonese Pyrenees.

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