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3 The Navarrese Pyrenees Tips for Drivers

The Navarrese Pyrenees are remarkable for the diversity Tour route: Approximately
of their landscape – from idyllic valleys to forbidding 140 km (87 miles).
Stopping-off Places:
mountain peaks. They are a great place for active Accommodation in hotels and
pursuits, including biking, rafting and paragliding, casas rurales (see p202) is easy
but also offer a good environment for pleasant walks, to find in the main towns; there
rest and relaxation. The towns and villages, whose are also many places to eat.
Equipment: When hiking in
inhabitants speak Basque, are full of culture and the mountains take warm
tradition. The megaliths dotted around the region clothing, as the weather can
testify to its long history. Wild animals find shelter in change suddenly.
the national parks, and sheep graze in the meadows.

6 Valle de Baztán 5 Lesaka 4 Oieregi
One of the most densely wooded This important Most of the village houses here
Navarrese valleys, this offers excellent industrial centre display the valley’s emblem – a
terrain for hiking and climbing. and charming town mermaid with long hair, holding
has caseríos and a comb and a mirror.
Cambo-les-Bains fortified manors
Irun
Oiartzun (casas-torre). Dolmens
and other ancient
tombs have been
Zugarramurdi
discovered nearby.
Igantzi J
0 km 10
Arizkun 0 miles 5
Bidasoa
Elizondo
3 Selva de Irati
Santesteban This is one of Europe’s most
extensive deciduous forests,
with a preponderance of beech
and fir. Deer, wild boar and
martens are found here.
J
Roncesvalles
Burguete
Irati
Erro
Urrobi J
J

Agra Irati J Ochagavía J
Isaba

Pamplona Esca
Areta Roncal
(Iruña)
Salazar Güesa
2 Valle de Salazar Aoiz
A river rich in trout
flows through this
beech-covered valley,
where typical Navascués
mountain villages
are located; the best- J
known of these is Sigüés
Ochagavía, with its
six stone bridges. Key
Tour route
1 Valle de Roncal Scenic route
The most mountainous region of
the Navarrese Pyrenees, this alpine Minor road
area includes the highest peak – Mesa National border
de los Tres Reyes (2,444 m/8,018 ft).
For keys to symbols see back flap
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