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Monument to Roland

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Monument to Roland

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Monument to Roland

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Location: Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Pirineos, Navarra, Spain

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1. Bizkarreta, Ibañeta, Auritz, Roncesvalles – Pilgrim's Route – Circular Route

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2. View of the Ibañeta Pass – Porte Saint-Jacques loop from Orreaga / Roncesvalles

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3. View of the Ibañeta Pass – View of the Pyrenees loop from Ossès-St Martin d'Arrossa

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Willem VS

July 18, 2022

Small monument in memory of Roeland, the faithful paladin of Charlemagne, who is said to have fallen here.

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MaestroG

August 17, 2024

Roland, who is commemorated here, died in 778 as part of the rear guard of Charlemagne's Frankish army. He himself was Margrave of Brittany and was the victim of a Basque revenge campaign against the Frankish conquerors who were retreating from a failed Saracen campaign.
Those were complicated times, but things were not to become any less complicated in the Basque Country in the centuries that followed.
An epic/song was later sung about Roland, which is part of world literature.
The monument itself is simple and rough, exposed up here in the wind of the weather, and can therefore have an immediate effect, without pomp and splendor. Great!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_von_Roncesvalles

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Location: Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Pirineos, Navarra, Spain

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Monument to Roland

1. Bizkarreta, Ibañeta, Auritz, Roncesvalles – Pilgrim's Route – Circular Route

2. View of the Ibañeta Pass – Porte Saint-Jacques loop from Orreaga / Roncesvalles

3. View of the Ibañeta Pass – View of the Pyrenees loop from Ossès-St Martin d'Arrossa

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