Luzaide/Valcarlos
Sign in to saveLuzaide (Spanish: Valcarlos; official name Luzaide/Valcarlos) is a town in Navarre, northern Spain, located on the French border and just a few kilometers from the road frontier in the French village of Arnéguy.
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Vinony's link graph records 294 inbound references to Luzaide/Valcarlos, and connects out to Navarre, France and Spain.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Municipalities in Navarre and Roland.
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Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Luzaide/Valcarlos
- Settlement.native_name
- Luzaide (basque)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Town hall of Luzaide-Valcarlos (3).jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Luzaideko_bandera.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Baztan.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain Navarre#Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Navarre
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Navarre
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Auñamendi
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Judicial district
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Aóiz
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 365
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Valcarlos
- Demonym
- luzaidar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Merindade of Sangüesa
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 467
- Area
- 44.06
- Elevation
- 365
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Arnéguy
- Official website
- www.luzaide-valcarlos.net
- Image
- Luzaide - centre.jpg
- Dialing code
- 948
- Licence plate code
- NA
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- Commons category
- Luzaide-Valcarlos
- postal code
- 31660
- native label
- Luzaide
- male population
- 178
- female population
- 151
- P8168
- Stéphane Matteau
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Encyclopedic overview
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Luzaide (Spanish: Valcarlos; official name Luzaide/Valcarlos) is a town in Navarre, northern Spain, located on the French border and just a few kilometers from the road frontier in the French village of Arnéguy.
Tradition holds that this is the valley [val-] where Charlemagne's rear-guard, under the command of Roland, was slaughtered by Vascons at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. Tradition holds that Charlemagne's troops were returning across the Pyrenees and had become stretched thin. The Vascons, unhappy with the Franks, fell upon the rear-guard and annihilated it. Roland sounded his horn but it was in vain as his horn was split upon a rock near Roncesvalles and he was slain along with his force. This battle at Valcarlos would prove to be Charlemagne's worst, and some say only, defeat in Iberia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luzaide/Valcarlos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations