Olite has been selected because of its proposal to carry out an intervention to upgrade and embellish a strategic area of the urban fabric which connects the Palace and the Church of Santa María with the Church of San Pedro, and which, however, is located outside the most frequented areas by tourism: the axis aligning the Rúa Villavieja, the Plaza del Fosal, the Plaza de la Rueda and its surrounding areas and the relationship between these spaces with the outside of the former walled perimeter. In the Plaza del Fosal, the proposal includes creating a new design for its public spaces as well as constructing a new building which serves as a new façade facing this square and which at the same time provides an access to the Romanesque cloister of the Church of San Pedro, occupying the currently-empty plot of land where in the past there was a building which carried out these same functions. In the Rúa Villavieja, the focus is set on giving a solution to the several existing empty plots of land. All of this will make it possible to give back to this area the importance and the attractiveness which it always had.
Olite is a municipality within the Navarre’s Mid-region, located 43 kilometres away from Pamplona with a population of slightly under 4.000 inhabitants. It is located on the right riverbank of the river Cidacos, tributary of the river Ebro, surrounded by crops where cereals, grapes and olives grow, with the Sierra de Ujué at the far end and a topography with soft slopes and staggered hillsides.
Navarre is historically divided in Merindades, being Olite head of the Merindad with that same name. It is an important agricultural centre, especially remarkable for its wine industry.
The location of Olite in the centre of this Mid-Region and the communication access which connects Pamplona and Tudela makes it have a privileged situation within the Foral Community of Navarre.
Olite has been selected because of its proposal to carry out an intervention to upgrade and embellish a strategic area of the urban fabric which connects the Palace and the Church of Santa María with the Church of San Pedro, and which, however, is located outside the most frequented areas by tourism: the axis aligning the Rúa Villavieja, the Plaza del Fosal, the Plaza de la Rueda and its surrounding areas and the relationship between these spaces with the outside of the former walled perimeter. In the Plaza del Fosal, the proposal includes creating a new design for its public spaces as well as constructing a new building which serves as a new façade facing this square and which at the same time provides an access to the Romanesque cloister of the Church of San Pedro, occupying the currently-empty plot of land where in the past there was a building which carried out these same functions. In the Rúa Villavieja, the focus is set on giving a solution to the several existing empty plots of land. All of this will make it possible to give back to this area the importance and the attractiveness which it always had.
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