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Restaurants & Food

Casa Marceliano Wasn’t Torn Down. Pamplona Voted to Demolish It, Then Never Did.

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.

Navarra & Northern Spain

The Nacedero del Urederra Caps Visitors at 500 a Day. The Rest of Urbasa-Andía Doesn’t.

Festival Culture & Traditions

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

History & Culture

Women Were Banned From the Encierro for 107 Years. The First to Run Broke the Law by Hiding in a Crowd of Men.

Women were banned from Pamplona's encierro for 107 years under an 1867 law. The history behind the 1974 repeal and today's low turnout.

Restaurants & Food

Rabas and Calamares a la Romana Look the Same on a Plate. They Didn’t Start as the Same Animal.

Navarra & Northern Spain

Cantabria Hid the Oldest Painted Art in Europe, and Nobody Believed It for 23 Years

Bull Breeds & Ganaderías

José Escolar: The Ganadería That Transformed Its Own Encierro Record

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.