Weathercocks, or rooster weathervanes, are among the most common weathervanes on European churches. Even so, weathervanes are rare in Spain. You can read more about the history of weathercocks HERE. We stopped in this village of Ochagavia in the Pyrenee mountains on our way to see the village where Vincent's mother was born. While we were walking to the restaurant we saw this church and the weathercock.
Ochagavia is in the Valley of Salazar near the Irati National forest in the Province of Navarra. The church is San Juan Evangelista. Part of the church was built in the 11th century, and the rest in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most of this village and the church was burned during the Napoleonic War in the early 1800s, but many details survived. I have no idea when the weathercock was added to the church steeple. Today, the weathervane is supported by the lightning rod next to it.
Earlier this year I blogged about another weathercock in Navarra, Spain in the village of Uztarroz. You can read that post here: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/07/weathervane-wednesday-weathercock-in.html
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday - Another Weathercock in Spain", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 17, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/05/weathervane-wednesday-another.html: accessed [access date]).
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