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Olite is worth a visit!

Very cool to go up to the church, the town is beautiful!

The west façade of the Church of Santa María de Olite was restored between 2015 and 2017. The project, funded by the Government of Navarre and the Gondra Barandiarán Foundation, was ambitious and complex. It focused on its spectacular painted portal, built alongside the façade during the first third of the 14th century. The successive layers of polychromy had been preserved thanks to a large portico, removed at the end of the 19th century. It was necessary to clean all the elements, determine the causes of alteration, stabilize the existing damage, and protect the result to ensure its proper preservation. The work garnered the dedication and interest of specialists in architecture, restoration, archaeology, history, art, and viticulture. Thus, this necessarily multidisciplinary book was born. The portal of Santa María de Olite, in its most striking uniqueness, unites Christian iconography, art, and viticulture on a single plane, in a journey "from vine to stone," which is still understandable and coherent today. Information taken from https://www.culturanavarra.es/es/la-portada-de-santa-maria-de-olite-de-la-vid-a-la-piedra

Carved out of a mountain, Ujué has only 300 inhabitants and is a remarkable example of a medieval village. Above the village towers an 11th century church

Carved out of a mountain, Ujué has only 300 inhabitants and is a remarkable example of a medieval village. Above the village towers an 11th century church.

From Ujué there is a beautiful view towards the south down to the Ribera de Navarra, the wide valley of the river Ebro. In between there are mountains on whose slopes wine is grown. The small town is a stop on the Ruta del Vino, which leads through the wine-growing regions of Navarre.

The church is attached to the Royal Palace and was used by the Navarrese monarchs for major festivals and ceremonial events. The palace had its own chapel dedicated to Saint George and a private, gated gallery dedicated to Saint Mary. Kingdom courts, baptisms, weddings and royal funerals took place here.

The Sanctuary of Santa María de Ujué was built on the site of an 11th-century Romanesque church, although written evidence from the 10th century was found of the previous existence of a pre-Romanesque temple on the same site. The church was declared a National Monument by ministerial decree of 26 June 1936.