In the history of this villages, there had been several remarkable personalities. It was from the antiquity, but there is constancy since the Middle Age.

Julián Gayarre (1840-1890) Distinguished tenor from Roncal, considered one of the best of all time. he triumphed in Milan’s La Scala with "La favorita", the opera which earned him the title of best tenor in the world, London, Buenos Aires, Austria, Germany, the Teatro Real in Madrid, Seville, the Liceo in Barcelona, Naples, the Opera in Paris, Bologna, Rome, Saint Petersburg, … Joaquín Larregla Renowned pianist and composer from Lumbier. He was a student of Arrieta and worked on several occasions with Sarasate. He was a teacher at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid. His works belong to the ballroom genre (Tarantela, Rapsodia asturiana). He also wrote the famous jota Viva Navarra! Domingo Elizondo (1848-1918). Aezkoan and one of the great pioneers of Navarrese industry. He emigrated to America, where he founded an ironmonger’s with branches in Paris and New York. He returned in 1890 with a great deal of capital and experience to found the El Irati S.A. timber company, which controlled the energy and transport required for business and recycled the waste products generated. A great many more personalities from the Pyrenees are worthy of mention: Diego Artieda, Pablo Mandazen, Fernando Arretxe, Perpetua Saragüeta, Antonio Aróstegui…

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