SAN MARTIN DE UNX

DESCRIPTION AND WHAT TO SEE IN SAN MARTÍN DE UNX

San Martín de Unx is a town of steep streets, stone houses and temples in elegant Romanesque style, and if you go a little further away you will discover its harmonious silhouette over the vineyards, from which its inhabitants have extracted the most famous of their products since ancient times. , rosé wine. On the slopes, terraces and ravines of this mid-mountain area, the freshness of the forests gives the Garnacha grape its uniqueness, then comes the work well done by its wineries. At the foot of the Guerinda mountain range, it constituted a defensive enclave of the Kingdom of Navarra, and had its castle on top, of which nothing remains, only the wide panoramic view of the Ribera de Navarra that could be seen from its battlements. 

CHURCH OF SAN MARTIN DE UNX

It is located at the top and to get to it you have to climb steep slopes. A dense mass of stone configures this Romanesque-style temple that hides under its floor the jewel of the town, an ancient crypt with elegant columns and light tinged by a narrow window covered in translucent alabaster. The temple was consecrated in 1156, and in addition to the crypt, the elegant apse stands out, a Romanesque baptismal font carved in stone from the XNUMXth century and the sculpture of a recumbent Christ from the XNUMXth century.

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF PÓPOLO

In the center of the town and at a crossroads we find this Gothic-style building that began to be built around the 13th century at its head. It has thick walls with buttresses and a single very wide nave, following the scheme that is common in Gothic constructions that during the 13th and 14th centuries. Read more