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Stage 4 by Somport

Ruesta to Sangüesa stage

km 21,8

Time 05H 30’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 3

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Before you reach Sangüesa do not stop photographing the swamp of Yesa

Information about the stage 4 by Somport: Ruesta to Sangüesa stage

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Points of interest in the stage 4 by Somport: Ruesta to Sangüesa stage

9 Vallesantoro Palace
8 Santa Maria la Real
7 Provincial limit. Navarra
6 Church of St. Martin de Tour
5 Roman paved or paved road
4 Alto
3 View of the Yesa reservoir
2 Ermita de Santiago
1 Church of Santa Maria

The route

Km 0. Ruesta (Hostel. Bar)

On the raised road of Ruesta and looking back to contemplate the last panorama of a town of the recent past, colonized by the tree mass and refusing to succumb to ruin and total depopulation, we descend to a walkway supported by stone pillars that allows to save the Regal River. After the campsite or rather what was of him, already closed, we arrived next to the chapel of Santiago, Romanesque temple abandoned to his fate. As he passes through the hermitage, a forest track is taken by the witness, who will be in charge of guiding our steps on the climb to Monte Fenerol. There is no loss. Attention should only be paid to a deviation of 90 degrees to the left which may go unnoticed (km 2.7).

Taken the detour, the rise contained hardens greatly. As we gain height, the forest remains at our feet and we can delight ourselves with a nice panoramic view of the Yesa swamp, the depopulation of Tiermas - which like Ruesta was forcibly abandoned by its neighbors when they built the reservoir - and the rocky barrier of the Leyre mountain. Reached the high (Km 6.4) we crossed a paved runway and followed by it 100 meters to the left. We then take the broad path that emerges to the right. The Navarre peak of Arangoiti (1,356 mt), at the bottom to the right and crowned by its repeaters, dominates Leyre. We began to descend on an open ground where medium-mountain rasa vegetation is mixed with cereal sows. Undúes de Lerda is still five kilometres away. When you finally see your medieval stamp of terrifying tones, you just unintentionally wake up. At one point we left the runway and faced the vaguada by a trocha (cyclists should continue along the runway). After a stretch of Roman road we are required a toll to enter Undués: an arduous repecho. The road to the bar and hostel, to date of the best preparations of the Aragonese Road, is marked.

Km 11.3. Undués de Lerda (Hostel. Bar-Shop)

The second stage presents a more favorable terrain. We walk away from Undués by a path that opens way between the shrubland and descends down the mountain ridge. After crossing the road heading to Undués we then link with another path (prone to embarrassment) until reaching the information panel we welcome to Navarra. Aragon is coming to an end and, according to GPS data, we have already advanced 98.8 kilometers from Somport (Km 14.6).

At the front, at the bottom, is the Sierra de Peña with its wind farm. Later on we entered a concentration trail that accompanies us for about an hour and that, with great desire, we left on the left. After a slight change of direction we left a paved runway through an area known as Llano del Real, dotted with rustic farms. After the bridge of the variant we entered Sangüesa. , whipped to the last moment. We left the bullring and front, along Magdalena Street, we reached the roundabout where the portal of Carajeas, one of the doors of the 13th century wall, is exposed. We continue in front to enter Enrique de Labrit Street, where the hostel is located.

Km 21.8. Sangüesa (All Services)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

UNDÚES DE LERDA:
A paved road with clear Roman roads or simple stone road to facilitate the passage of livestock, as argued by Public Works Engineer Isaac Moreno, leads to the gates of Undués de Lerda, the last Aragonese population on the Camino de Santiago. It belongs to the region of the Five Villas and sits on the Sierra de Sarda, in the pre-Pyrenean depression of the Val d'Onsella. The oldest nucleus is swirled around the church of St. Martin of the 16th century. The 15th century City Hall building and two 18th-century palace houses also stand out. The old pilgrim hostel is an old palace of the late 15th century completely renovated in 1994.
SANGÜESA:
After Jaca, Sangüesa is the second town in number of inhabitants (over 5,000) of the Aragonese Road. He belongs to the judicial party of Aoiz since the 19th century but was the capital of one of the five historical merinties that made up Navarra. The first town of Sangüesa has to be searched where today is Rocaforte, a town also passing to Santiago and situated on the other side of the river Aragón. In the year 1090, Sancho Ramírez, king of Aragon and Pamplona, granted to that first borough the Jaca jurisdiction to favor the repopulation. Thirty-two years later, in 1122, the also king of Aragon and Pamplona, Alfonso I the Battalion, extended that rage to the new borough of Sangüesa, which began to grow on the banks of the river. Like so many other places on the Camino, he grew up and was formed as the pilgrims went through, as now, the Greater. The modern traveller will find in Sangüesa all the services he could have missed from Jaca.
- Church of Santa Maria la Real:
  Located on Calle Mayor, next to the bridge over the Aragon River, Santa María la Real is the nice little girl from Sangüesa and its cover a prominent reference of the Spanish Romanesque. The body consists of three ships of three sections each and a head of three apses. The octagonal tower is Gothic and was renovated in the 20th century. The popular cover is fully covered with sculptures made by the masters Leodegarius and San Juan de la Peña. Among the many scenes depicted are the Genesis, Life and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Final Judgment, which occupies the eardrum.
- Church of San Salvador:
  It was built at the end of the 13th century in Gothic style. The front page is later, from the 16th century, and represents the Final Judgment. The interior walls were covered with white lime in the late 18th century and hide gothic paintings that hope to be recovered.
- Church of Santiago:
  Declared a Historical Artistic Monument in 1977, it is a construction with Romanesque and Gothic elements from the 12th and 13th centuries. On the front cover tympanum of the seventeenth century, Santiago is represented flanked by two pilgrims. In turn, the interior keeps an image of Santiago peregrino of the 14th century.