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Stage 5 by Somport

Sangüesa to Monreal

km 27,3

Time 07H 00’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 2

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We take strength and say goodbye to the river Aragon to the valley of Ibargoiti

Information about the stage 5 by Somport: Sangüesa to Monreal

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Points of interest in the stage 5 by Somport: Sangüesa to Monreal

14 Church
13 Albergue de Peregrinos de Monreal
12 Medieval bridge
11 Elorz River Bridge. Salinas de Ibargoiti
10 Church of San Pedro
9 Church of St. Martin
8 Izco Cruise
7 Loiti High
6 Alto de Aibar
5 San Francisco Fountain
4 Towards the top of Aibar
3 Rocaforte, the old town of Sangüesa
2 Vallesantoro Palace
1 Santa Maria la Real

The route

Important Warning: The hostel in Izco will stay CLOSED during 2017.
Km 0. Sangüesa (All Services)

Advancing in a straight line through the streets Enrique de Labrit and Alfonso the Batallador turn left hand to take Calle Mayor. After passing the cover of Santa María la Real we have the last encounter with the Aragon, a river that we crossed through a bridge at the end of the 19th century that ended the structure of the 11th century Romanesque bridge. At the exit we continue on the right and we walk a few six hundred meters down the road. Just until the diversion to Rocaforte (see observations in case of choosing the Lumbier Foz variant). We take the detour to quickly take a path that is born next to the right wing and that faces the hill where Rocaforte is built.

Km 2.5. Rocaforte

At the entrance of the village, a Jacobean plate points out the options towards Rocaforte and towards Alto de Aibar. We choose the latter and continue on the right to take a runway that passes next to the San Francisco fountain, where a recreation area with merendero and several barbecues has also been enabled (Km 3). The track opens a path through an open ground, sown with cereal fields, vines and scattered olives and under the wind park of the Sierra de Salajones. Without strong repeches, but constantly ascending, progress is made for six kilometers to the top of Aibar, which we crowned after a tunnel (Km 9).

A path drawn on the road and overlooking the village of Lumbier leads us to quickly down the hillside of the mountain. Continue to lead us in a small pine forest, to which we open a portillo to enter a trail. Later, pass a Canadian step in the area of the Basobar ravine, the runway curves and look!, because it must be abandoned by a wooden portillo on the left (Km 12).

On another forest track, with the close reference of a line of wind turbines on the ridge of the sierra, we are surpassing the slope. One kilometer after a livestock vessel we reach
770 meters of altitude at a high of the Sierra de Izco, the highest level of the stage (Km 15,9).

Through a small coniferous forest we go down to an agricultural track leading to Izco, entering the Ibargoiti valley. At the gates of Izco we receive a modern cruise and an informative panel of the valley and its populations. The signs lead to the plaza, where the fronton and pilgrim's hostel are located (Km 17,8).

Km 17.8. Izco (Lodge-Bar-Shop)

At the exit of the village we continue along another plot, straight and with several undulations, that reaches Abínzano, the second inhabited nucleus of the valley.

Km 19.8. Abínzano

After Abínzano, more of the same. It moves along the runway for another hour to the outskirts of Salinas de Ibargoiti. Without entering this population, we crossed a bridge over the Elorz River.

Km 24.3. Salinas de Ibargoiti

Let's turn left to briefly continue next to the river. For a comforting and final tranche under a tupid bouquet of boj bushes we present ourselves in Monreal. We cross the medieval bridge over the Elorz and progress in front of Santa Barbara Street to turn left and climb the stairs that end next to the hostel door.

Km 27.2. Monreal (Hostel. Bar. Store. Pharmacy. ATM)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

ROCAFORTE:
Located on a hill and at the foot of a large rock, Rocaforte was the primitive nucleus of Sangüesa. At the end of the 11th century, Sancho Ramírez gave him the Jaca race, a privilege extended by Alfonso I the Battalion in the year 1122 to the new borough (the current Sangüesa).
- San Francisco source:
  Half a kilometer from Rocaforte, a historic reformed source remembers the figure of San Francisco de Assisi (1181-1226), founder of the Franciscan order and which, according to tradition, went through this same place on pilgrimage in 1213, where he founded the first convent of the order in Spain. Next to the fountain a merendero and several stoves have been built.
- Oratorio de San Bartolomé:
  On the right side of the road, about 300 meters away, is this 13th-century monastery. He was inhabited by Franciscan monks who abandoned him definitively in the 19th century.
IBARGOITI VALLEY:
This valley emerges between the saws of Izco and Izaga. The pilgrim runs through the agricultural slopes that link the towns of Izco, Abínzano and Salinas de Ibargoiti. For more than a decade now, the latter population has been celebrating Trilla Day, an exhibition of how once wheat was crushed and packaged in sheaves.
IZCO: A
small town that, thanks to its neighbours, in its time became a welcoming hostel for pilgrims. At the end there was a useful polished Bronze Age. During the Middle Ages, the Hidalga population predominated in the Aibar valley. The parish of San Martín responds to the simple rural typology of unique nave and tower at the foot. From the old hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Sagrario, used since 1847 as a dependence on the cemetery, comes a Romanesque carving of the Virgin, very touched in face and hands.
MONREAL:
Written in the Middle Ages, El Codex Calixtinus, the first guide of the Camino de Santiago that is known, already named Monreal as the end of the stage on the route from Somport. Under the shadow of the Higa (1288 meters high) and crossed from side to side by the N-240, Monreal, from Monte Real, has seen how some of its services have been shut down due to the construction and commissioning of the Pyrenees motorway (A-21).
FOZ DE LUMBIER:Pilgrims
who choose the alternative variant will enjoy a six-kilometer tour through the gorge created by the Irati River and known as Foz de Lumbier. It is a reclaimed rail route that was traversed along the old Irati railway. The infrastructure was created for the transport of wood and other goods but many passengers also benefited from this journey.