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San Fermín Festival

Pintxos lined up on a Basque bar counter, conversational Spanish territory
Festival Culture & Traditions

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

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Historic Guardia Civil uniforms including the tricorne hat, one of Pamplona police forces during San Fermin
San Fermín Festival

Pamplona’s Red Beret Isn’t Festival Costume. It’s Navarra’s Own Police Force.

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Peña Aldapa's 1965 fiesta pancarta banner, Pamplona San Fermín
Festival Culture & Traditions

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

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Procesión de San Fermín, the saint's image carried through Pamplona's old city on July 7
Festival Culture & Traditions

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

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Crowd filling a Pamplona street during San Fermin's daily festival schedule
San Fermín Festival

San Fermín Doesn’t Run on One Daily Schedule. It Runs on Four.

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Crowd in traditional white and red filling a Pamplona street during San Fermín, where El Rey is sung
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
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Zaldiko horse figure and kiliki marching in the San Fermin comparsa, Pamplona
Festival Culture & Traditions

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

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Spectators in red and white watch the encierro from balconies above a Pamplona street
San Fermín Festival

How to Watch the Running of the Bulls in Person: The Best-Value View in Pamplona Is Inside the Bullring, Not on a Balcony

How to watch the running of the bulls in person in Pamplona: the free second barrier, the wall above the saint's niche on Santo Domingo,
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La Pamplonesa brass band marching through Pamplona, the band that plays Las Dianas each morning of San Fermín
Festival Culture & Traditions

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

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Bilingual Spanish and Euskara road signs, Basque Country
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.
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