Roncesvalles
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Roncesvalles is a small village and municipality in Navarre, northern Spain. It is situated on the small river Urrobi at an altitude of some 900 metres in the Pyrenees, about 4 kilometres from the Fre
Roncesvalles in 2025
Chains found in a Roncesvalles church said to inspire the coat of arms of Navarre. Photographed at the Museum of Roncesvalles
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
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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
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…border as the crow flies, or 21 kilometres (13 mi) by road. Roncesvalles is famous in history and legend for the death of Roland in 778, during the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, when Charlemagne's rearguard was destroyed by Basque tribes. When a party of horsemen from the Kingdom of Navarre arrived at the Duchy of Burgundy in…
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