Other Views at a Glance
These journeys create distance—both physical and narrative.
They are largely scenic experiences, shaped by movement through space rather than immersion on foot. Mountain roads, high passes, historic routes, and symbolic landscapes unfold gradually, revealing the scale of the territory and the stories embedded within it.
Some perspectives are gained from altitude, others from context: pilgrimage routes, spiritual geographies, borderlands, and ecosystems where belief, memory, and nature intersect.
This section offers ways of seeing rather than ways of arriving—brief, elevated, and quietly revelatory
Toward the Pyrenean Threshold
A scenic journey toward the remote eastern edge of the Basque territory, where the land begins to rise toward the Pyrenees.
Approaching from the French side, this route reveals wide valleys, high pastures and changing horizons before concluding in Donibane Garazi (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port), a medieval town shaped by borders, pilgrimage and time.
Along the Pilgrim’s Way
Following the historic Camino de Santiago, this journey traces one of Europe’s most enduring spiritual routes.
Moving through mountain roads and symbolic landscapes, we read the Camino not only as a medieval path, but as a living geography—still walked today as a form of reflection, transition and inner travel.
On the Ignatian Way
A journey through the spiritual geography shaped by Ignatius of Loyola, the most universal Basque figure.
From his birthplace to mountain sanctuaries set in dramatic landscapes, this route follows the Ignatian Way, where belief, architecture and landscape converge into places of silence, retreat and meaning.
Reading the Forest: Mushrooms & Ecosystem
An immersive forest walk guided by a mycologist, where mushrooms become an entry point into the intelligence of woodland ecosystems.
Beyond their culinary value, fungi are explored as ecological connectors, cultural symbols and essential agents of sustainability—revealing the forest as a living, interdependent system.