Search for a tower

One of the turnings on the road to Pamplona, Berdún, San Juan de la Peña is for the little village of Atarés. We didn't go to the village on our Sunday afternoon outing, we stopped just after the junction and headed up the footpath. When I say up, the path really was very steep in places, but we made it through the wooded hillside to the tower.

As you can see it's a total ruin, surrounded by oaks. They can't have been there in the 16th century when it was built or it would have been useless as a defence or for watching the Aragón valley from.

Anyway, it was a nice, short walk. When we got back to the car we picked a few blackberries; this year's crop is poor because it's still so dry.