The grandstands.
In the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, the population of the Northern Basque Country increased significantly and the churches became too small to house all the parishioners. It was difficult to enlarge the churches without modifying the cemeteries that surrounded them. It was then that galleries were built inside the churches. This is also how Zuberoa differs from its neighbors in Laburdi and Baja Navarra. Instead of galleries that run along the three walls and rise on several floors, a single gallery was built in Zuberoa, facing the altar, constituting a single floor with several rows of benches. But custom, here as among its neighbors, establishes that only men sit on them. In general, the gallery is accessed by means of an external staircase whose first section is located under the porch. This constitutes, in front of the main door, a shelter for the faithful, who usually loiter in it after the trades. The most successful of these porches is that of Gotein.