8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Ochagavía
Stone-and-slate Pyrenean village at the meeting of the Zatoya and Anduña rivers, crossed by a medieval cobbled bridge and lined with coats-of-arms on whitewashed houses. The classic base for the Irati Forest via the NA-2012.
4 km · about 10 min drive
national park
Selva de Irati
One of Europe's largest beech-fir forests, ablaze with colour in autumn around the Irabia reservoir deep in the Pyrenees.
12 km · about 20 min drive
mountain pass
Puerto de Ibañeta
The Roncevaux Pass of legend, where Roland fell in 778: a 1,057 m Pyrenean crossing above Roncesvalles on the classic Camino Francés route into Spain.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Monasterio de Leyre
A serene Romanesque monastery clinging to the Sierra slopes above the turquoise Yesa reservoir, famed for its crypt and Gregorian chant.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Foz de Lumbier
A short dramatic gorge where griffon vultures wheel above the Irati river, walked via an old railway tunnel into a sheer limestone canyon.
30 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Sos del Rey Católico
Walled medieval hilltop village in the Cinco Villas where Ferdinand II of Aragon was born in 1452, its cobbled lanes and Romanesque church of San Esteban almost untouched since. Orson Welles filmed Chimes at Midnight here.
42 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Pamplona Casco Viejo
The medieval heart of Navarre where Hemingway drank and the bulls thunder down Calle Estafeta each July during the San Fermin festival.
45 km · about 50 min drive
mountain pass
Puerto de Somport
A 1,632 m Pyrenean border pass used since Roman times and by Camino de Santiago pilgrims, descending past the monumental Canfranc railway station on the Spanish side.
47 km · about 55 min drive