El Camino de Santiago y el puente de la reina [The Way of Santiago and the Bridge of the Queen]

Abstract

The Rioja territories of Nájera, Viguera and Logroño were incorporated into the Kingdom of Pamplona through the campaigns of the year 923 conducted by Sancho I Garcés of Pamplona (905-926) and his relative Ordoño II of León (914-924). This incorporation was effective, leaving the Muslims away from the territory and allowing pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela from the first half of the tenth century without fear of Muslim incursions (until the time of Almanzor). However the Historia Silense, written two centuries later (ca. 1118), attributed to Sancho III El Mayor (1004-1035), the deviation from the path of pilgrims that from Pamplona went by Álava, up to which it currently does for Rioja regions. Modern historians have specified that the diversion of the road took place from the reign of Sancho Garcés I.