Roland's Breach
Videos
Roland's Breach is the name of a natural gap, 40 m across and 100 m high, at an elevation of 2,804 m in the Pyrenees on the border of Aragón, northern Spain, and Hautes-Pyrénées, southwestern France.
Roland's Breach as seen from the French side.
Roland blows his olifant (ivory hunting horn) to summon help in the midst of the Battle of Roncevaux as portrayed in The Song of Roland with Roland's Breach in the background
Roland's Breach as seen from the peninsular side
Roland's breach with some people passing through
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Videos
The Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Sp
15th-century anonymous painting of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Roland à Roncevaux (c. 1877), painting by Gustave Doré depicting an idealized vision of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Ibaneta (Roncevaux) pass
The death of Roland and his men