Collegiate Church of Zenarruza

The old collegiate church of Zenarruza dates from the 10th century. Legend has it that on the day of the Assumption, in 968, an eagle took a skull from an open tomb and carried it away until it dropped it on the place where the church of Cenarruza is nowadays. At the end of the 14th century, the increase in the importance of the Compostela Way on which the church stands led to the constitution of a collegiate council in what was until then a parish. Thus Cenarruza was erected as a collegiate church in 1379. The collegiate church existed until it was reduced by the Concordat of 1851. After decades of dilapidation, in the 1980s the church was restored. Currently, it is a priory of the Cistercian Order of Close Observance.