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Castle of Javier
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Castle of Javier

Locality: JAVIER (31411)

Address: Castillo de Javier

Zone: The Central Zone

Website: www.santuariodejavier.org

Interesting links

www.castillosnet.org

Centuries of construction: X

Visiting hours: de invierno 2011-2012: todos los días, de 10:00 a 13:30* y de 15:30 a 17:30*. (*Últimos pases).

Price of the visit: 2,50€. Precios especiales para diversos colectivos y grupos.

Tel.: 948884024

Fax: 948884259

E-mail: castillodejavier@jesuitas.es

A silhouette of crenelated towers cuts the horizon, welcoming your arrival at the Castle of Javier, the birthplace of San Francisco Javier (St Francis Xavier), patron saint of Navarre, religious missions and tourism in Spain.

The fortress stands on a rock outcrop 8 kilometres from Sangüesa in the Central Zone of Navarre. Every year in early March the castle is the destination of thousands of people from all over Navarre in the popular pilgrimage known as the Javierada.

Cross the drawbridge and enter a world of towers, dungeons, machicolations, embrasures and arrow slits, enabling you to get to know the place where Francis Xavier was born (1506) and lived. He was later the co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and one of the most universal missionaries.

Near the border with Zaragoza (Saragossa) province, at the highest part of the small village of Javier, stands the imposing...