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Zugarramurdi
Sign in to saveZugarramurdi is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre in northern Spain. It passed into history as the setting of alleged occult activity featured in the infamous Basque witch trials held in Logroño in the seventeenth century. The town is home to the Basque witch museum and the Witch Caves. Every year, spectacular fires are lit in the caves near Zugarramurdi for the celebration of the ‘day of the witch’ on the summer solstice.
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- Spanish
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- Municipality
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- Navarre
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Official website
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Zugarramurdi is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre in northern Spain. It passed into history as the setting of alleged occult activity featured in the infamous Basque witch trials held in Logroño in the seventeenth century. The town is home to the Basque witch museum and the Witch Caves. Every year, spectacular fires are lit in the caves near Zugarramurdi for the celebration of the ‘day of the witch’ on the summer solstice.
==Etymology== Zugarramurdi is a toponym with unknown meaning, even though it comes from Basque. The philologist Koldo Mitxelena proposed that the etymology of the name could be “place with an abundance of ruined elms”, coming from zugar (elm) + andur (ruined) + the suffix –di (it indicates abundance). However, Mitxelena himself admitted not having proof about this theory. It seems that the name of the village is transcribed in the same way in Basque and Spanish, even though the z is pronounced differently in these languages. Because of this, the pronunciation of Zugarramurdi varies slightly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zugarramurdi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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