Lorca
What is there in Lorca
Lorca is a village in the municipality of Valle de Yerri, in Navarra, on the Camino Frances.
Shortly before arriving you cross the river Salado on a medieval bridge, and that is the moment to remember the most famous warning in the Codex Calixtinus: Aymeric Picaud wrote that its water was deadly to horses and that he saw two Navarrese waiting, knife in hand, to skin the horses of pilgrims who drank from it. Today the drink is less dramatic. Lorca, with just over a hundred residents, is a street village that broke away from neighbouring Lácar precisely to live from pilgrim traffic, and its name, of Basque origin, has nothing to do with the Lorca in Murcia. Beside the Camino stands the church of San Salvador, from the second half of the 12th century, and in 1150 King García Ramírez of Pamplona died here.
Accommodation in Lorca
Distances from Lorca
From Lorca to Villatuerta it is about 4.2 km.
To Estella it is about 9.2 km.
And to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Santiago de Compostela, about 675.8 km remain.
