Camino Photo of the Day: Santa María de Eunate

The church of Santa María de Eunate is a wonder, no mistake. Leaving aside a moment its octagonal floorplan, one is struck by the surrounding colonnade of pillars and arches. These have no roof and seemingly no purpose at all. Those who have studied this church say they were almost certainly repurposed from an earlier cloister. Unfortunately for the theory, there is no evidence to support this, and it doesn’t really answer the question as to why the blocks were repurposed – and for what purpose. The whole area has an absolutely otherworldly feel it it.

Date: 04 April 2013
Place: Eunate (Navarra, Spain)

Map! (which we are currently not on – we are near to the highway crossing to the left of Obanos and up from Muruzábal)