Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de Idoia. It is in Navarre, in the municipality of Isaba. It is located 15 minutes from the town, opposite the centre of the village and separated from it by the river Ezka. It is a large building made of good ashlar stone, with the hermit's house attached to it, the front of which reads: ‘Year 1800’. The basilica sanctuary is rectangular in shape, probably dating from the 16th century, and is located on the hill that joins Mount Txorimilla or Txorimilo to the Crown of Esandi. The image of the Virgin of Idoia dates from the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a sixty-centimetre high carving, in which the faces of the Mother and Child are smiling. According to tradition, it was found in a pond or swamp, of which there remains a fountain that spreads along the path leading to the river Uztárroz. She is invoked as a protector, mainly against headaches. Until about a dozen years ago, the votive offerings of favoured people, crutches, bows, ribbons and other objects could be seen. Another tradition says that the iron gate with spear-shaped tops, which separates the presbytery from the rest of the church, was brought by the Roncalesa girls from the old monastery of Igal, in Salazar. It is used as a pilgrimage on Whit Monday and also, in the past, in the rogations of San Marcos. Until the 1930s, the people from Salazar also went there. A variant of the tradition concerning the gate says that it was carried ‘on the shoulders of the Salacenca girls’. At the beginning of the century, it still had a good organ that was deteriorating in the face of general indifference. Its remains could be seen scattered around. In the account book of the Confraternity of Idoia, in 1751, we can read: 27 Item.... ‘It was ordered by all the Brothers that they would pay a tare to each Beneficiary who came to sing the Salve and another tare to the organist’. This must refer to the ‘tarja navarra’, a kind of coin with a coat of arms on the back. These payments to the organist were ed, using the currency in force at the time, until 1818. There are published Novenas with the Gozos and the Salve in Roncalese Basque. The refrain of the Gozos is as follows: Gozoso el valle Roncal en Vos su esperanza apoya Madre de Dios de Idoia Roncalesa celestial. The soprano from San Sebastian, Idoia Garmendia Estornés, has recorded five albums with the title Idoia. On the fifth one she sings the Gozos in Roncalese Basque, with the title ‘Idoiako Ama Birjiñari goxo kantuak’. On the record ‘Andra Mari’ these ‘Gozos’ are performed by the Usandizaga Choir, conducted by Juan Oñatibia and Joaquín Pildain on the organ.