DESCRIPTION AND WHAT TO SEE IN LEKUNBERRI
Lekunberri means “good new place” since, due to its border location, throughout its history it was razed and rebuilt numerous times. Today it is a large town, full of commercial activity, and with a very well-kept old town. Its old town has all the charm of Basque towns with its large hamlets. The information and tourism office is located in the old Plazaola train station and will offer you detailed information about the Greenway route, the Mendukilo caves and the entire surrounding area.
PLAZAOLA GREENWAY AND TRAIN STATION
In the old train station, today the Tourist Office. In the adjacent building (the Kantina), you can rent bicycles to explore the Plazaola greenway. Old railway route that linked Pamplona with San Sebastián for more than 50 years through a winding route and a multitude of long tunnels. We begin the tour at the old train station, today converted into a tourist office and headquarters of the Plazaola Tourist Consortium. READ MORE.
OLD TOWN
Immense typical hamlets of the area maintain their name and, in this way, their inhabitants will be known. READ MORE
BEAUTIFUL SHIELDS
In the year 1192, King Sancho the Wise granted a charter to the residents of the town, by which the pechas (taxes) of this villainous community of royal lordship were unified and updated. In the year 1397, Charles III the Noble, gave the Franks of the valley and their descendants a privilege, with which all its inhabitants became noblemen with identical rights. In 1514, Ferdinand the Catholic confirmed what the shield should be like: it consists of a tree with a wolf before it, and gules (red) sticks, weapons of the Kingdom of Navarra and the Crown of Aragon. It is interesting to see that the valley already used the tree with the wolf as its emblem, before this concession. Read more
CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
Simple transitional construction between the 1965th and XNUMXth centuries (Gothic), with a pointed arch portico restored in XNUMX. READ MORE.
LAUNDRY
Public building where women gathered to do laundry or “lixue”. Clothes were rubbed and washed on the large smooth and inclined stones. READ MORE.
COOL DAYS
Basque and Basque culture are an essential part of the valley. The most important festivals are those of Pilar, carnivals and the old-fashioned market in August.
SERVICES
Lekunberri is a service town with numerous restaurants, shops, hotels, rural houses, sports facilities, a house of culture, etc.
SURROUNDINGS
Lekunberri is the most used access to reach the Sanctuary of San Miguel de Aralar, and for the beginning of excursions throughout the mountain range.
