the church is the work of Miguel de Irazusta, a local architect based in Madrid. He received the order in 1724 and ended it with his appointment as the town's first mayor. At the time of the parish priest Juan de Irazusta, Miguel's cousin, between 1755 and 1772, some significant improvements were made in the church: the choir arch, the new church floor and the portico were built and a clock was installed in the tower. This clock was reformed in 1841 and 1932. The church organ dates from 1928. Between 1998 and 2000 the church of San Martín underwent a profound restoration that was partly financed with funds from the European Union. Hermitages of Santiago and the Holly Cross There are no data on the construction date of the hermitage of Santiago. Currently, it forms a complex with the cemetery, next to the local car park. In old documentas it has also been called as hospital. The first documented mention of the hermitage dates from 1528. The fact that the hermitage was called hospital as well, encouraged Luis Pedro Peña Santiago to speculate that one of the branches of the Camino de Santiago might have passed through Alkiza. It was quite common for the residents of Alkiza to make donations to the hermitage in their wills. On the other hand, in 1762 the parish of San Martín commissioned the architect Martín Carrera to build a calvary from the church to the hermitage. There is no data on when it was built, but currently half a dozen crosses are still standing. A few years after the commission to Carrera, on June 22, 1771, the bishopric of Pamplona prohibited giving mass in the hermitage because it was in a precarious architectural situation. This prohibition lasted until 1832. That same year the bishopric authorized the restoration of the hermitage since the decision had been made to demolish the other hermitage in the village, the hermitage of The Holly Cross Masses were celebrated in the hermitage of Santiago until 1977 and the procession of Good Friday from the parish and to the hermitage continued until 1979. Currently the hermitage is desacralized. The hermitage of The Holly Cross stood half an hour away from the urban nucleus and at 520 m above sea level. The old path from Alkiza to Hernio passes by its ruins. The first documented mention of this hermitage dates from