Santa María de Eunate

The church of Santa María de Eunate is a Romanesque church located in open countryside, 2 km from Muruzábal, in Navarre, Spain. It is located where the Somport (Aragonese) and Roncesvalles (Navarrese) Pilgrims' Roads to Santiago de Compostela meet, in the Ilzarbe Valley (Valdizarbe). It is a Templar hermitage, whose Romanesque façade has been studied in depth. Its architectural layout can be found in other places in Navarre. It is characterised by its exterior cloister. La iglesia de Santa María de Eunate es una iglesia románica ubicada en campo libre, a 2 km de Muruzábal, en Navarra, España. Se halla en el lugar donde se juntan los Caminos de Santiago de Somport (aragonés) y de Roncesvalles (navarro), ubicada en el Valle de Ilzarbe (Valdizarbe). Se trata de una ermita templaria, cuya portada románica ha sido estudiada profundamente. Su distribución arquitectónica puede encontrarse en otros lugares de Navarra. Se caracteriza por su claustro exterior. The church was built in Romanesque style in the second half of the 12th century. It was originally a Marian hermitage belonging to a local brotherhood. As it is far from a village and scallops (a traditional attribute of the Jacobean pilgrimage) have been found in the tombs found in the church, it is thought to have been a hospice for pilgrims. La iglesia fue construida en románico en la segunda mitad del siglo XII. Primeramente se trató de una ermita mariana de una cofradía local. Como está lejos de un pueblo y se han encontrado vieiras (atributo tradicional de la peregrinación jacobea) en las tumbas que se hallan en la iglesia, se opina que fue un hospicio para los peregrinos. The complex has an imperfect octagonal floor plan and is surrounded by a porticoed gallery of 33 arches with decorated capitals. The harmony of the octagonal plan is broken by a pentagonal apse and a square turret attached to the Epistle side.