Zugarramurdi
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Zugarramurdi is a town and municipality
located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre
, northern Spain
. It passed into history as the setting of the infamous Basque witch trials
. Every year in spectacular caves near Zugarramundi the town celebrate the ‘day of the witch’.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre
Navarre
Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...
, northern Spain
Spain
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. It passed into history as the setting of the infamous Basque witch trials
Basque witch trials
The Basque witch trials of the 17th century represent the most ambitious attempt at rooting out witchcraft ever undertaken by the Spanish Inquisition...
. Every year in spectacular caves near Zugarramundi the town celebrate the ‘day of the witch’.