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Mejillones in spicy tomato sauce, a Pamplona bar-style preparation
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Pamplona’s Mussel Bars Exist Because of a 1945 Invention in Galicia

Pamplona's mussel bars trace to a 1945 batea invention in Galicia and Europe's only seafood DOP. Here's how mejillones got 450km inland.
Fresh percebes, goose barnacles, at a Basque fish market in Donostia-San Sebastian
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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.
Navajas razor clams plated Spanish tapas, served in Pamplona bars
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Pamplona’s Navajas Travel 600 Kilometers to a City That Sits Barely 80 From the Sea

Navajas razor clams in Pamplona bars are not local. They travel 600km from Galicia through the city's own 1979 fish market, Mercairuna.