Calle de Beire

Beire is a tiny town in central Navarre, in the merindad of Olite, some 45 kilometres from Pamplona. It has fewer than three hundred inhabitants and lives off grain and vines, and it is its name that this Bellas Vistas street bears. The neighbourhood was laid out in the early twentieth century, gathering a small Navarrese geography onto the map of Madrid: a few steps away run calle de Navarra and calle de Pamplona, and calle de Beire joins that roll of northern place-names. The town holds more history than size, with its Gothic church of San Millán and, at the top of the village, the old palace of the counts of Ezpeleta, now a hostel.