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ZUBEROA (MONUMENTAL HERITAGE)

The cemeteries.

The old houses had their burial inside the church, where they kept it until the Revolution, or even later. The owners of new houses, founded by secundones, no longer having room inside, buried their dead outside, beginning the cemeteries. These are located around the church, and the parishioners, after mass, usually visit the grave of their deceased. For centuries, the only funerary monuments in the entire Northern Basque Country have been the discoidal stelae. Each Suletino town has a certain amount, even if, according to Colas (1923), they are less numerous and worked than in other provinces. Among the most interesting that Colas reproduces, we find one in Allah, very old, in which a crossbow appears. In many others and in different cemeteries we find the three crosses that may have inspired the builders of the bell towers-calvaries. The most emotional is undoubtedly that of Ezpeldoipe, in Etchebar, which commemorates the murder of Bereterretx committed in the s. XV and probably dating from this time ( vide infra , "History. Late Middle Ages").