Navarra & Northern Spain

The Carnaval de Lantz Wasn’t Handed Down Unbroken. Franco Banned It in 1940.

Spain's own heritage record shows the Carnaval de Lantz was banned in 1940, staged once in 1944 purely for documentation, and rebuilt from scratch in

Restaurants & Food

Percebes Start Dying the Moment They Leave the Rock. Pamplona Serves Them Anyway.

Percebes (goose barnacles) die within a day of harvest. Here is why this fragile Spanish delicacy still reaches Pamplona during San Fermin.

History & Culture

Festival Culture & Traditions

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

Navarra & Northern Spain

Bull Breeds & Ganaderías

Sights & Activities

Calle San Nicolás in Pamplona has 21 bars in 190 meters, but until 1423 it was its own walled town, not part of the city.

Festival Culture & Traditions

Peña Armonía Txantreana history: Pamplona's first neighborhood peña, born in Txantrea in 1956, the only one to break from its sports club.

History & Culture

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