An ancient legend tells of a castaway that was thrown onto the beach of Zarautz. It was 1572. The unknown 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 mysterious castaway was a fugitive Huguenot, who, after the brutal massacre carried out by the Catholics on the night of Saint Bartholomew in Paris, tried and attempted to escape from France. He left La Rochelle for England on a galleon, but a mighty severe storm in the Bay of Biscay thwarted his perilous journey.

The shipwrecked got worse and in his feverish delirium he cursed and denied the Catholic faith. He passed away in the Blue Room, without receiving the holy sacraments. It was August 23, Saint Bartholomew’s day. We can hear the screams of the evil tongues in the palace and if we are attentive, the paintings try to speak of what occurred.

It was Luis Coloma, the Jesuit writer, who recovered this legend in 1912. In a story he tells us about his own experience in the Blue Room of the Narros Palace. He says it was a mysterious night in which he felt a ghostly presence accompanied by screams that produced haunting panic within him.

In 2018, recalling the legend of the Blue Room, we wanted to start up a hotel. But the mysteries of the Blue Room endure to this day.

Are you willing to find out whom, how and why the castaway was killed?