The Romanesque and the roads of Santiago.
The pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela deeply marked the religious architecture of Zuberoa and the B arn, particularly in the s. XII. The country was covered with a network of churches and foundations due to the hospitaller orders. In this way, the map of Romanesque art corresponds closely to that of the Compostela roads that channeled artistic influences from France to Spain and from Spain to France. In the Middle Ages, the Basque Country became the crossroads of all the roads from Europe to Compostela. In the S. In the 9th century the rumor spread that the tomb of the Apostle Santiago el Mayor had been discovered in Galicia, in Compostela. The first pilgrims began to go there and in the s. X the name of the pilgrimage was already great. See