Monreal (Navarre)

Municipality of Monreal / Elo
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Comarca :	Pirineos
Coordinates	42 ° 42 ′  N , 1 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 42 ′  N , 1 ° 30 ′  W
Height :	545  msnm
Area :	22.61 km²
Residents :	478 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	21.14 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31172
Official language :	Spanish
Location of the municipality

Monreal , Elo in Basque , is a place on the Camino de Santiago in the Spanish-speaking part of the autonomous community of Navarre in Spain . It is located 18 km southwest of Pamplona .

Despite its small size, there was a Jewish quarter here in the Middle Ages . At times the village was so important that it issued its own coin. There was a castle that served as a hunting residence for the Navarre kings. However, only remnants of this still exist. Its destruction (1521), like that of other Navarre defenses, was ordered by the Spanish kings in the 16th century.

Today you can visit the church of St. Martin , which, of Gothic origin, was heavily modified in the 18th century. The retable dates from the 17th century and was restored in 1927.

The image of the church can be found partly as a station in the goose game , a board game popular in Spain with most of the main pilgrimage stations of the Way of St. James, as can be found in the Liber Sancti Jacobi .

Monreal has a pilgrims' hostel.

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

Web links

• Regional Government of Navarre - Location Information
• Monreal in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia

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1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

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