Arizkunenea House, Elizondo

This grand construction is linked to the Arizcun lineage, whose original site corresponds to the nearby Arozarena house, located a few meters away on Jaime Urritia Street. Already in the second half of the XVII century several members of this lineage were located in the Indies and in Madrid, where Norberto de Arizcun stood out, who became a prosperous businessman. Under his protection, he took his nephew Miguel de Arizcun, born in Elizondo in 1691, who would continue with the commercial company of his uncle, dedicated especially to the provision of provisions for the navy and the supply of ammunition for the army. The services rendered to the monarchy allowed him to raise his native house Arozarena to the rank of palace corporal of armory in 1732 and to obtain the nobiliary degree scroll of marquis of Iturbieta in 1741. It was in the late thirties when he ordered the reconstruction of Arozarena and the construction of Arizkunenea, one of the most outstanding examples of eighteenth-century Navarrese stately architecture, thanks to its U-shaped plan, the elegance of its stone courtyard crowned by a mixtilinear pediment and the French-style ironwork.