History & Culture

San Fermin and Franco: The Fiesta a Dictatorship Tried to Own

History & Culture

The Hospital That Treats Pamplona’s Gored Runners Has Changed Its Name Three Times

The hospital treating Pamplona's encierro injuries has changed its name three times since 1932. The real history behind gored runners' care.

History & Culture

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara's Pamplona bull run used trained bulls, not the live herd, and sparked a PETA backlash. Here is the full production record.

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Julian Gayarre, the Roncal tenor, died in 1890. Pamplona renamed its main theater for him in 1903, and Teatro Gayarre still bears his name today.

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San Ignacio de Loyola fell in Pamplona in 1521, but the castle he defended no longer exists. The real site, the basilica, and the monument

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Sculptor Jorge Oteiza left 1,690 works to Navarra, not a big city. Why his museum sits in Alzuza near Pamplona, and where to find his

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San Francisco Javier is Navarra's co-patron saint alongside San Fermín. The 1657 dispute, the December 3 holiday, and the story nobody tells.

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The running of the bulls in movies was rarely shot in Pamplona. Where City Slickers, the 1957 Hemingway film, and Bollywood really filmed it.

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Pablo Sarasate, the Pamplona violinist Europe called its own, came home every July for San Fermin and willed his violins to the city.

History & Culture

The Toro de Osborne began as a rejected brandy ad in 1956. The history of Spain's roadside bull, the law that nearly killed it, and