Gela Urdina

An old legend recounts that the waves threw a shipwreck to the beach of Zarautz. It was 1572. The stranger was cared for by the owners of the Palacio de Narros and they put him up in the Blue Room to recover. Legend has it that the shipwrecked man was a fugitive Huguenot, who, after the massacre carried out by the Catholics on the night of Saint Bartholomew in Paris, tried to escape from France. He left La Rochelle for England on a galleon, but a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay thwarted his journey. The shipwrecked worsened and in his feverish delirium he cursed and denied the Catholic faith. He died in the Blue Room, without receiving the holy sacraments. It was August 23, Saint Bartholomew's day. The gossips say that we can still hear his screams in the Palace and that if we pay attention the cadres talk trying to tell us what happened. It was Luis Coloma, the Jesuit writer, who recovered this legend in 1912. In a story he tells us his own experience in the Blue Room of the Palacio de Narros. He says that it was a mysterious night when he felt a ghostly presence accompanied by screams that gave him real panic. In 2018, recalling the legend of the Blue Room, we wanted to launch a hotel. But the mysteries of the Blue Room endure. Are you willing to find out who, how and why the castaway was killed?