BISKARRET / GUERENDIAIN
The small town of Biskarret, located north of Navarre in the Pyrenees and very near the border with France.
Biskarret appears historically linked to the Camino de Santiago, which was a staging point obliged to walkers, especially until the appearance of the guest house of Roncesvalles. There was also a hospital for pilgrims, which still remains. In its architecture stresses the parish church of San Pedro, belonging to protogótico style of the early thirteenth century.
Settlements on a hill 790 metres above sea level, provides an overview Biskarret enviable, a few minutes from the splendid natural Sorogain enclave.
QUINTO REAL y SOROGAIN
Quinto Real is a beautiful beech furrowed by a multitude of races. Atravesado from north to south by the Arga, in this vast forest inhabits a large number of animal species. It houses the ruins of the Royal Arms Factory Eugi and is by itself a fascinating space.
Fifth Royal belongs to the valleys of Erro, Baztan, Esteribar and Alduides. Abound therein deer, roe deer and deer and wild boar and foxes. Birds complete the enormous wealth of fauna of this lush forest. Among them the black woodpecker, pito dorsiblanco and fellow, while large raptors like eagles, falcons and abejero scavenging as the vulture or the bearded vulture.
The berrea is, in the autumn, the most important event of the forest. This is the time when the deer are looking for a male to mate with the female so preserve the species. Their chants and Berra, a prelude to the fight for the primacy, spread throughout the forest.
From Fifth Royal can be accessed through the port of Baztan Artesiaga, or by Alduides of Urkiaga.
Sorogain (Valley Erro) is a splendid environment for relaxation, gentle walks to give or raise any mountain climbing easy. An extensive green carpet surrounded by beeches, oaks and mountain. Sorogain hosts won the valleys and Erro Baigorri contract face, giving rise to a big party on the occasion of marking it. Throughout the area pastures are several stations dolmens, remnants of a past to pastoril prehistory. Sorogain has a recreation area, in an environment of great beauty conditioning with tables, benches and stone grills.
