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Stage 5

Stage of Puente la Reina/Gares a Estella/Lizarra

km 22,0

Time 05H 00’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 14

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Welcome to the middle; cobbled streets and Romanesque bridge

Information about the stage 5: Stage of Puente la Reina/Gares a Estella/Lizarra

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Points of interest in the stage 5: Stage of Puente la Reina/Gares a Estella/Lizarra

17 San Pedro de la Rúa de Estella
16 Albergue de ANFAS de Estella
15 Bridge over the River Ega
14 Parish Church of the Annunciation
13 Bridge over the Iranzu River
12 Albergue la Bodega del camino
11 Albergue de Lorca
10 Church of San Salvador
9 Medieval bridge. Río Salado
8 Roman bridge over the Iguste race
7 Albergue Maralotx
6 Church of San Román
5 San Pedro Parish Church
4 A good cost to start the stage
3 Albergue Jakue
2 Albergue de los Padres Reparadores
1 Puente románico de Puente la Reina

The route

Km 0. Puente la Reina (All Services)

The vast majority will have stayed in the hostels located at the entrance of Puente la Reina, so we wake up from sleep on Crucifix Street, passing under the arc that connects the church with the Sanjuanist convent, and cross the national to enter Calle Mayor. On the right is the church of Santiago with its rich front page from the beginning of the 13th century. At the end of the street, the monumental Romanesque bridge over the Arga that gives name to this locality. It is certain that it was built for the passage of the pilgrims, although it is not so much that it was ordered to be lifted by the queen Doña Mayor. We feed history across it and turn left to pass the national and bid Puente la Reina for Zubiurrutia, the neighborhood of the nuns where there is a convent of the Commander of the Holy Spirit. We continue for a couple of kilometers the course of the Arga River by its right margin and we are moving away from its flow to temporarily turn north-west. The change of direction entails facing a hard hill under a repopulated pine grove that dies next to the A-12, the highway of the Camino. We entered the region of Val de Mañeru and reached the village that gives name to the valley.

Km 5.2. Mañeru (Hostels. Casa Rural. Bar. Store. Office. Pharmacy)

Pueblo de vino, Mañeru is crossed by its southernmost part (calle de la Esperanza and plaza de los Fueros) and is abandoned by Calle Forzosa. At the exit we see one of the postcards of the Camino appear on the horizon. It has everything: a path surrounded by cereal and vineyards, transited by pilgrims, moving towards a medieval town situated on a hill. The town in question is Cirauqui and to reach the center you have to sweat the nice through its network of steep streets. One of the gates of the old wall is accessed to the streets Santa Catalina and Portal and the City Hall. Next to the route, after a few steps to the right hand, is St. Román, a church of characteristic Romanesque cover and Arab reminiscences.

Km 7.8. Cirauqui (Hostel. Bar. Store. Office. Pharmacy. ATM)

We enter the City Hall by one of its arches, where they usually leave a stamp to mark the credential, and we descend to the outskirts of the town to step a heap of the past. It is a stretch of Roman road and a bridge of the same time, transformed in the 18th century, that crosses the waters of the Iguste race. After a sink comes another bridge lacking historical comments that allows safe passage over the A-12 motorway. The day continues on the runway or on intermittent road remains and a one-arch bridge over the Dorrondoa race (Km 9,4).

Two kilometers later we stood on a local road, passed under the viaduct of the Alloz canal, built in 1939, and ended up on the shore of the Salado River. Codex Calixtinus of the 12th century is released with saña: "by the place called Lorca, by the eastern area, runs the river called Salado: Beware of drinking on him, neither you nor your horse, for it is a deadly river!" (km 12.1) The waters are saved, rich in salts but not lethal, by the medieval bridge of ojival arches and we leave the river and poetry to face a demanding kilometer to Lorca, the town of Yerri valley.

Km 13.3. Lorca (Hostel. Bar. Store)

At the entrance we receive the prominent apse of the church of San Salvador. Calle Mayor guides us from end to end and on the outskirts our itinerary coincides with that of a local path that heads to the cross of Maurien. Always on the routes of concentration we reach an underground step under the highway and we end up in Villatuerta. It is the newly built urbanizations that draw the direction to follow to the Romanesque bridge of the Iranzu River, which divides this newer part with the most historical nucleus.

Km 17.8. Villatuerta (Hostel. Bars. Shops. Office. Pharmacy. ATM)

By the rustic Nueva, next to the consistorial house, we climbed to the plaza where the gothic church of the Annunciation is located, with a cathedral bearing. In the entrance patio there is an image of San Veremundo, patron of Villatuerta and great benefactor of the Camino de Santiago as its contemporaries Santo Domingo de la Calzada and San Juan de Ortega. On the street Camino de Estella we continue the path towards the silhouette of the chapel of San Miguel.

It is left to the left and descends to a small bowl at the foot of the NA-132. Tragically, the Canadian pilgrim Mary Catherine passed away. A stone milestone crowned by a virgin and a plate will always remember it. Rest in peace. We save the road for an underground step and go down a path to a modern and abombated bridge over the Ega (Km 19,5). The course of this river will take us to the doors and the origin of Estella, the rustic Curtidores, where is the orientation service to the pilgrim Ordoiz, who gives the witness to the Rúa, where the hospital of pilgrims is located.

Km 22. Estella (All Services)

The difficulties

Remarks

At the exit of Puente la Reina we will cross the medieval bridge that gives the town its name.
All the towns along the way at this stage have all the services, including pilgrims’ hostel.
There is a variant called "Montejurra variant," signalized with cramps that goes from the village of Villatuerta to a few kilometers before Los Arcos, does not pass through Estella, shortens the route in almost two kilometers and is somewhat harder. To check the track follow this link https://en.wikiloc.com/routes -a-pie/villatuerta -los-rezi-29923402
At the exit of the town of Cirauqui the pilgrim will have the privilege of crossing what remains of a Roman bridge and a not very large piece of an original Roman road, and thus step where exactly millions of pilgrims stepped before us.
In Villatuerta, in Plaza Rebote 3, right after the hostel and next to the town hall and the pediment, is the Rustic House 643 km. Single room with shared bathroom 20 euros, double rating with shared bathroom 40 euros, double room with private bathroom 45 euros. Breakfast 5 euros and dinner 15 euros optional. The accommodation features laundry and iron, a small kitchen, two men/woman separate bathrooms, living room of 30 m2, dining room, terrace of 21 m2 and garage for bikes. Telephone:615 003 690. See availability at http://www.casarural643km.com/

Ordoiz Pilgrim Guidance Service: The
Improving Every Day Foundation, in collaboration with the Ordoiz Center, launched in April 2016 a Pilgrim Guidance Service, which supports the Estella Official Guidance Point. The Ordoiz Center is a psychosocial rehabilitation center serving people with mental health problems. Users of the centre, in order to develop their work skills, as well as to raise awareness of their capacities and resources, provide information and advice on hostels and other resources of interest to pilgrims. The center is located on Curtidores Street, 33. Opens from April to September (closes August) from 9:00 to 17:00 from Monday to Friday.

In images

What to see, what to do

MAÑERU:
- Parish Church of San Pedro:Neoclassical
  temple of the late 18th century. Its slender tower has two distinct parts: the lower one is from the XVI and the upper one, where the bells are housed, is baroque from the XVIII.
CIRAUQUI:
- Church of San Román:
  It is gothic but still retains its most characteristic element: the 13th century Romanesque cover. It is polylobular with no eardrum.
Villatuerta:
- Church of the Annunciation:
  At the exit of the town this gothic construction keeps the height of San Veremundo, Villatuerta pattern that is taken in procession every March.
ESTELLA:
In 1090 a political decision by King Sancho Ramirez (1076-1094) turns Estella into a city on the Camino de Santiago. Although the Jacobea route did not stop on the banks of the Ega, Sancho Ramírez managed to do so by granting the new Estella (a town previously known by Lizarra) the rage, legal rules advantageous above all for the French settlers, the main motors of the economic growth of the cities. The French, free and generally dedicated to commerce and crafts, expanded through Estella forming new burgos or neighborhoods, such as San Miguel. In the twelfth century, the rise of the Camino and the European artistic influences that fell through it favor a good constructive stage, with examples such as:

Warning! : San Pedro de la Rúa is closed by restoration works. They are expected to end in Easter 2012. More information in the monuments section of the stage.
- San Pedro de la Rúa:
  A modern staircase, between the Rua and St. Nicholas streets, leads to this 12th-century Romanesque church. Its main cover, the northern one, has ten lobulated arches of Arab influence and rich ornamentation. The cloister still retains two wings built by 1170. Unfortunately, the other two collapsed with the demolition of Zalatambor Castle, ordered by Philip II in 1572.
- Palacio de los reyes de Navarra:
  Located opposite the church of San Pedro. The pilgrim passes by this palace, which has a facade composed of a gallery of half-point arches and four windows of arquillos. One of the columns is the famous head of the battle between Roldán and the giant Ferragut. The Gustavo de Maeztu Museum, which gathers the work of this painter and organizes temporary exhibitions, is now housed in the residence of the crown of Navarra.
At the entrance of the Camino by Estella, in the street of Curtidores, you can see the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the late Romanesque and the Gothic and parish until 1881.