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Festival Culture & Traditions

Festival Culture & Traditions

The Candles Left at San Lorenzo Aren’t a New San Fermín Habit. The Chapel Behind Them Is Centuries Old.

Festival Culture & Traditions

Pamplona’s Txistu Players Aren’t Folk Musicians. They’re Municipal Employees Under Contract.

Festival Culture & Traditions

Basque Folk Costume Isn’t One Costume. Navarra Alone Kept Three Alive.

Festival Culture & Traditions

The Spanish You Learned in School Won’t Get You Through a Pamplona Bar

Festival Culture & Traditions

Peña Aldapa’s Missing Blusón: The Pamplona Peña That Never Got Its Jacket

Festival Culture & Traditions

The Procesión de San Fermín: The One Day the Saint’s Image Leaves Its Chapel

Festival Culture & Traditions

One of San Fermín’s Biggest Anthems Is a Mexican Ranchera Called “El Rey”

El Rey is a 1971 Mexican ranchera and one of San Fermín's loudest anthems. How Pamplona's peñas made the song their own, and why the

Festival Culture & Traditions

The Zaldikos Are the Only Unnamed Figures in Pamplona’s Comparsa. A 1994 Radio Contest Didn’t Change That.

Festival Culture & Traditions

Las Dianas Isn’t Ancient Folklore. A Newspaper Invented It in 1876.

Festival Culture & Traditions

Pamplona Isn’t Legally Basque-Speaking. A Quarter of the City Speaks Euskara Anyway.

Pamplona is legally Navarra's zona mixta, not Basque-speaking. Euskara, the Basque language, still reaches 24.6% of the city today.