Restaurants & Food

Marmitako Has Three Names on One Coastline, and Pamplona Serves It Anyway

Marmitako has three regional names and nearly vanished from menus. Trace the Basque tuna stew from fishing boats to Pamplona's summer bars.

Navarra & Northern Spain

Bodegas Chivite’s Own Timeline Has 373 Years of Milestones. It Skips the One That Changed Who Owns It.

Bodegas Chivite calls itself Spain's oldest wine family. Its own 373-year timeline never mentions the year a Catalan company bought it.

Pamplona Travel Guide

Restaurants & Food

Navarra & Northern Spain

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 (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