Sights & Activities

Pamplona’s River Isn’t Scenery. It’s Why Two of the City’s Walls Never Needed a Moat.

The Rio Arga in Pamplona is not scenery. It is why two city walls never needed a moat, and why Rochapea keeps flooding.

Pamplona Travel Guide

La Ciudadela Closes for Three Weeks Every July. The Fireworks Inside Are Why.

La Ciudadela is closed most of July, right when San Fermin visitors want to see it. Here's the real reason the citadel shuts its gates.

History & Culture

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.

History & Culture

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

Pamplona Travel Guide

Parque de la Taconera deer aren't wild. Pamplona keeps the herd all-female inside 17th-century siege walls, and the reason is pure genetics.

History & Culture

San Ignacio de Loyola fell in Pamplona in 1521, but the castle he defended no longer exists. The real site, the basilica, and the monument

Pamplona Travel Guide

The history of Pamplona is not one continuous story. The city was unmade and refounded four times, from Pompey's camp to the 1915 wall demolition.

History & Culture

Sculptor Jorge Oteiza left 1,690 works to Navarra, not a big city. Why his museum sits in Alzuza near Pamplona, and where to find his

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