Walkers should take great care when joining the N120 before entering Navarrete, as traffic comes round a blind bend in both directions.

Just before entering Navarrete the Camino passes the restored remains of the pilgrim hospital of St John of Acre. On the right of the camino in the centre of c/Mayor is the 16th c. Church of La Asunción

Church and Mass - Iglesia de La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Plaza Gonzalo Sáenz, 1. Mass daily 19:30, Sunday 9:30 and 13:00.

On leaving town look for a cemetery on the left. It has a 13th c. Romanesque portal, originally the door to the pilgrim hospital of Saint John. Optional route via Sotes

Navarrete means gateway to Navarra. In 1170 King Alfonso VIII of Castile began a strategy of fortification of key points around the Río Ebro. The strategy included the development of fortified hill towns laid out in a semicircle with concentric streets around the semicircle centre. Other examples of this layout can be seen later on the Camino at Castrojeriz and Burgos. In about 1192 several villages round the hill of Tedeón were consolidated to create the new fortified hill town of Navarrete which was given its formal charter in 1195.