Auritz-Burguete - Travel & Tourism Guide Auritz-Burguete - Espagne

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Auritz (in Basque, Burguete in Castilian), a village of just under 250 inhabitants founded as the village of Roncevalles, is a very pleasant place to stop, with its traditional steep-roofed houses - mainly manor houses and stately homes built between the 16th and 18th centuries - on both sides of the street, as well as its beautiful municipal cemetery. The single street then leads you to Mezkiritz, where you can admire a stone bearing the image of the Virgin of Roncevalles. The village is mentioned in Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, where he stayed to pursue one of his great passions: fishing.