Places to see in ( Pamplona - Spain )
Places to see in ( Pamplona - Spain )
Pamplona is the capital of Navarre province in northern Spain. It’s best known for the Running of the Bulls (Feast of San Fermín) in July. During this legendary multiday festival, bulls are led through the city streets by daredevil runners. A major stop along the Camino de Santiago, a medieval-era pilgrimage route, Pamplona is also home to Gothic-style churches including fortress like San Nicolás.
Pamplona is the historical capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former Kingdom of Navarre. Pamplona is famous worldwide for the running of the bulls during the San Fermín festival, which is held annually from July 6 to 14. This festival was brought to literary renown with the 1926 publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises.
After the 2015 municipal elections, there are 27 seats in Pamplona's municipal council: ten of Navarrese People's Union (Unión del Pueblo Navarro), five of EH Bildu, five of Geroa Bai, three of the Socialist Party of Navarre, three of Aranzadi (supported by Podemos Ahal Dugu), and one of Izquierda-Ezkerra.
Pamplona is located in the middle of Navarre in a rounded valley, known as the Basin of Pamplona, that links the mountainous North with the Ebro valley. It is 92 km (57 mi) from the city of San Sebastián, 117 km (73 mi) from Bilbao, 735 km (457 mi) from Paris and 407 km (253 mi) from Madrid. The climate and landscape of the basin is a transition between those two main Navarrese geographical regions. Its central position at crossroads has served as a commercial link between those very different natural parts of Navarre.
Pamplona has shifted in a few decades from a little administrative and even rural town to a medium-size city of industry and services. The industry sector is diversified although the most important activity is related to automobile industry.
Pamplona is the main commercial and services centre of Navarre. Its area of influence is not beyond the province, except for the University of Navarre and its teaching hospital, which provide private educational and health services nationwide.
Several notable churches, most of its 16th- to 18th-century fortified system and other civil architecture buildings belong to the historic-artistic heritage of Pamplona.
The most important religious building is the fourteenth century Gothic Cathedral, with an outstanding cloister and a Neoclassical façade. There are another two main Gothic churches in the old city: Saint Sernin and Saint Nicholas, both built during the thirteenth century. Two other Gothic churches were built during the sixteenth century: Saint Dominic and Saint Augustine. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century were built the Baroque chapels of Saint Fermin, in the church of Saint Lawrence, and of the Virgin of the Road (Virgen del Camino), in the church of Saint Sernin, the convents of the Augustinian Recollect nuns and the Carmelite friars, and the Saint Ignatius of Loyola basilica in the place where he was injured in the battle and during the subsequent convalescence he decided to be a priest. The most remarkable twentieth century religious buildings are probably the new diocesan seminary (1931) and the classical-revival style memorial church (1942) to the Navarrese dead in the Nationalist side of the Civil War and that is used today as temporary exhibitions room.
Pamplona has many parks and green areas. The oldest is the Taconera park, whose early designs are from the seventeenth century. Taconera is today a romantic park, with wide pedestrian paths, parterres, and sculptures.
The Media Luna park was built as part of the II Ensanche and is intended to allow relaxing strolling and sightseeing over the northern part of the town. After its demilitarization, the citadel (Ciudadela) and its surrounding area (Vuelta del Castillo) shifted into a park area with large lawns and modern sculptures.
The most remarkable parks of the new neighborhoods include the Yamaguchi park, between Iturrama and Ermitagaña, which includes a little Japanese garden; the campus of the University of Navarre; the Parque del Mundo in Chantrea; and the Arga park.
From the prominent military past of Pamplona remain three of the four sides of the city walls and, with little modifications, the citadel or star fort.
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Fortifications of Pamplona, SPAIN
The jury was impressed by the restoration of Fortifications of Pamplona, one of Europe's best conserved bastioned enclosures and citadels. Since 2006 the city hall promoted important plan of action for recovering the entire fortification enclosure, opening it to the public and improving the surrounding area, as a recreational site where cultural and natural heritage come together. The restored fortifications are no longer a defensive wall, but a meeting place and a symbol of unity for the citizens and for the town itself.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Pamplona , Spain
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Parque Natural Urbasa Andia
Parque de La Taconera
Fortress and Walls of Pamplona
Pamplona Catedral
Iglesia de San Saturnino
Town Hall
Plaza del Castillo
Parroquia San Lorenzo
Monumento al Encierro
Plaza de Toros de Pamplona
Tiny Tour | Pamplona Spain | Wandering around the old town area 2019 Autumn
Hi guys, today we visited the old town part of Pamplona. Pamplona (in Basque and co-officially Iruña ) is a municipality and capital of the Autonomous Community of Navarra. Traditionally it has been believed that the city was founded in 74 a. C. by the Roman general Pompey. In today’s episode, you will see The Cathedral of Santa Maria from 15th century, The City Hall of Pamplona from 1756, some Mediaeval walls, and a comer of military citadel from 17th century, the church of San Saturnino San Cernin from 13th century, and the Castle Square which is surrounded by many colourful 18th-century houses. I hope you enjoy it.
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BASTIONS The walls of the Citadel
3D animation of defensive evolution of the defenses of the city of Pamplona. Navarre
Travel Spain - Touring Olite Castle
Take a tour of Olite Castle in Spain -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
Olite Castle, an expansive fortress in northern Spain was built periodically between the 13th and 15th centuries.
This enormous edifice with its shining silvery spires and high turreted walls is a stunning fortress among the brush scenery.
The disjointed Gothic design of this castle turned palace is due to its intermittent building, over the two centuries in which it was constructed, each king added to the structure.
It was Charles the Third who finally finished the construction in the 15th century with the addition of high walls with towers, moats, and gardens.
Soon after, this grand palace was abandoned and forgotten, and it remained so until the 20th century when a reconstruction effort began.
The interior decorative features were lost due to neglect, but many of the original exterior stone-work was salvaged.
This fairy-tale castle will mesmerize and enchant; its age, fortitude, sheer size, and grand splendor creates a truly awe-inspiring experience.
San Fermín, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain, Europe
The festival of San Fermín in the city of Pamplona, is a deeply rooted celebration held annually from 12:00, 6 July, when the opening of the party is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo, to midnight 14 July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí. While its most famous event is the encierro, or the running of the bulls, which happens at 8:00 am from July 7th to July 14th, the week long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events. It is known locally as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre. Its events were central to the plot of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, which brought it to the general attention of English-speaking people. It has become probably the most internationally renowned fiesta in Spain. Over 1,000,000 people come to watch this festival. The running of the bulls involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-metre (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. The run ends in the Pamplona's bullring taking a mean time of around 3 minutes where the bulls would be held until the afternoons bullfight when they would be killed. Bullruns are held between the 7th and the 14th. The event begins at 8 a.m. when a first firecracker is lit to announce the release of the bulls from their corral. Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974. Runners gather earlier at the beginning of the itinerary to ask for the protection of the Saint by singing a chant three times before a small statue of San Fermin which has been placed in a raised niche in a wall. A second cracker signals that the last bull has left the corral. There are six fighting bulls accompanied by six oxes (often white and brown coloured) that guide them to the plaza and followed by three more not fighting oxes. There are also some shepherds guiding the bulls, wearing green T-shirts and holding long poles. Once all of the bulls have entered the arena, a third rocket is released while a fourth firecracker indicates that the bulls are in their bullpens and the run has concluded. After the end of the run young cows with wrapped horns are released in the bullring and toss the participants, to the amusement of the crowd. The circuit has only changed slightly since 1852 as the former bullring was located close to the present one. Before that date the bullrunning ended in the castle plaza, still not far from the present bullring. While the origin of this tradition was the necessity to move the bulls from outside the city to the bullring for the bullfight it is not clear when did citizens begin to run in front of them. There are written records in 1787 that the tradition was already well established with no memory of its beginning. The tradition of singing for protection to the saint dates back to 1962. The event is dangerous. Since 1925, 15 people have been killed during the event most recently on 10 July 2009 and every year between 200 and 300 people are injured during the run although most injuries are contusions due to falls and are not serious. Every afternoon between 7 and 14 July there is a bullfight in which the 6 bulls that have been driven to the bullring during the bullrunning of that day are killed. It begins at 18:30. In addition the 5th bullfight with younger bulls and not fully trained bullfighters is performed while the 6th features bullfighters on horses (in Spanish rejoneo). While the bullring of the city is the fourth largest in size in the world, it is full every afternoon and tickets are hard to find. There are exhibitions and competitions of Basque rural sports every morning in the Plaza de los Fueros, a square close to the city citadel, although they were formerly held in the bullring. Sports include stone lifting, wood cutting, or hay bale lifting. On the other hand the Jai alai tournament of Sanfermin is a prestigious competition of this variety of basque pelota. It is held in one of the courts of the city. Betting is common during these events. Every night a firework spectacle is held at the citadel park. Fireworks spectacles have been known to occur in Sanfermin as far back as 1595. Since the year 2000 an international fireworks contest is held. Thousands of people watch them seated on the grass around the citadel. Every day, during the morning, there is a parade of gigantes y cabezudos (in English giants and big-heads respectively), with the giants figures being more than 150 years old. The eight giants figures were built by the painter from Pamplona Tadeo Amorena in 1860, and represent four pairs of kings and queens of four different races and places (Europe, Asia, America and Africa). Their size is around 4 metres each and are carried by a dancer inside a wooden structure. During the parade giants dance following the rhythm of traditional music.
The Cathedral of Salamanca's Astronaut
The ancient Spanish city of Salamanca, situated on the banks of the River Tormes, is one of the oldest university towns in Europe with a rich and elegant collection of Renaissance, Roman, Gothic and Baroque monuments. Among them are two majestic cathedrals built between the 12th and 18th centuries. The New Cathedral, constructed between the 16th and 18th centuries, features late Gothic style with a Baroque styled cupola. The cathedral’s vaulted stone ceilings contain graceful paintings and its sandstone walls are intricately carved. But one element is peculiarly out of place and out of time.
Running of the bulls gone wrong.
This seems quite old, but couldn’t find it on LL though. I don’t think it’s a good idea to funnel the runners and the pursuing bulls into a bottleneck created by the entrance to the arena. Also good action shot of dude being run over/flipped over by a bull.
Kingdom of Pamplona and County of Aragon
This is episode 29 called Kingdom of Pamplona and County of Aragon and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- Why Vasconia has always been subject to external attacks
- How the Carolingian Empire and Emirate of Córdoba fought to control Iberian Vasconia and how that led to the emergence of pro-Frankish and pro-Umayyad Basque parties
- The assassination of the Banu Qasi governor of Pamplona, led by Velasco the Basque who represented the pro-Frankish party
- How Íñigo Arista, supported by the Banu Qasi and Córdoba, gained control of Pamplona
- Why the Kingdom of Pamplona is not considered a kingdom and the game of double legimitacy
- The origins of the County of Aragon, briefly under the Carolingian Empire and how García the Bad made the County of Aragon a vassal of Pamplona instead
- The last attempt of the Carolingian Empire to regain control over the Western Pyrenees, the Second Battle of Roncesvalles and its consequences
- What kind of relationship did the Banu Qasi and Arista-Íñigo dynasty had
- The political history of the County of Aragon in the 9th century and the origins of surnames like Sánchez or García
- Brief talk about social and economic aspects of the Kingdom of Pamplona and the County of Aragon
- What are the origins of the Basques (genetic studies)
- The external history of the Basque language, why its usage declined and the current situation of Euskera
- Reflection on the pragmatic relationship between the Kingdom of Pamplona and the Banu Qasi
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From Olite to Javier Castle, Navarra-SPAIN 2015
Walking The Camino in Navarra. Pamplona by Locals.
A local guide accompanies you along the route of The Road to Santiago through Navarra
Follow The Road to Santiago as it passes through Navarra, accompanied by an expert guide from The Local Tourism Guide Firm gives the whole experience an extra dimension.
Pilgrims from all over the world have been crossing through Navarra and Pamplona city for more than a thousand years, leaving their mark on the history and art of this distinctive region.
Currently, receiving World Heritage recognition, this Road to Santiago attracts people from all parts of the world, of all races, religions and ages who pass through Navarra to experience a different and unique event.
As we are part of this famous Pilgrim’s Road, we particularly enjoy showing visitors “our own point of view” of this singular phenomenon, sharing the Road as it crosses our mountains and valleys.
The guided itineraries will also include some of the most important landmarks along the Road and accounts can be given about the traditions, legends and anecdotes which have grown up in the villages and towns along this historic pilgrim’s route.
The Road to Santiago in the Navarra Pyrenees: Puerto de Ibañeta, (The Mountain Pass of Ibañeta) Colegiata de Roncesvalles, (Roncesvalles Collegiate Church) Burguete, Espinal and the mountain pass of Puerto de Mezkiritz. (9 kms. of moutain trails).
Camino de Santiago Tolosano: Foz de Lumbier, Liédena, Monasterio de Leyre (a flat route of some 5 kilometers).
The French Road in Navarra: Eneriz, Eunate, Obanos and Puente la Reina (a flat route of some 9 kilometers).
Welcome, pilgrim.
Running of the Bulls (view from a balcony above) - San Fermin 2008
Watch the bulls as they turn Dead Man's Corner, and injured a few humans along the way
Running with the bulls in Pamplona
2016 Day One, with the bulls in Pamplona. Fun times ... no, never doing that again. A few moments of sheer panic.
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Pamplona, Spain. Parque de la Ciutadela. This is a panorama from the right to the left, over lawn and fortress walls. Sunny summer day. Pamplona is a city on the Camino de Santiago, famous for the annual Encierro (Bulls Run). The Camino de Santiago is UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
Tiny Tour | Hondarribia Spain | An incredibly beautiful ancient city from 12th century 2019 Autumn
Hi guys, today is cloudy, but I still managed to capture the beauty of this amazing city, Hondarribia. Those recommended touristic spots are basically all filmed in this video.
Hondarribia (Fuenterrabía) is a town situated on the west shore of Bidasoa river's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, in Basque Country, Spain. The border town is situated on a little promontory facing Hendaye (France) over the Txingudi bay. A service boat makes the trip between the two cities. The town holds an ancient old quarter with walls and a castle. In addition, Hondarribia features a beach across the Bidasoa from the touristy housing estate Sokoburu in Hendaye, alongside a mountain called Jaizkibel providing a hilly backdrop to the town. A road leads north-east from the beach area to the Cape Higuer, located in this municipality.
Fuenterrabía (en euskera y oficialmente Hondarribia) es una ciudad y municipio del País Vasco, España, situado en el extremo noreste de la provincia de Guipúzcoa, a unos 20 km al este de la capital, San Sebastián, en la desembocadura del río Bidasoa, que hace de frontera natural con Hendaya (Francia). Forma parte de un área metropolitana transfronteriza, la Eurociudad Vasca Bayona-San Sebastián, con más de 620 000 habitantes. Fuenterrabía forma parte de la Eurociudad a través del Consorcio Transfonterizo Bidasoa Txingudi, con las ciudades de Irún y Hendaya. El objetivo de esta cooperación regional es dinamizar proyectos innovadores, atraer inversiones comunes y armonizar un modelo de desarrollo social, territorial y urbano sostenible.
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Tarragona, Spain human tower competition
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Spain - part 3 - Montserrat, Saragossa, Pamplona, Bilbao,Segovia, Avila, Salamanca 2003
Montserrat, Barcelona, Saragossa - Sanctuary of our Lady, River Ebro, Pamplona - Basque country, old capital of Navarra, running of bull; San Sebastian - Basilica ;St. Ignatius Loyola Basilica ; Bilbao - Guggenheim Museum; Burgos - Castile; Segovia - Roman aquaduct, castle; Avila - city wall; Salamanca - Plaza Mayor
San Fermín Festival Pamplona, Navarre, Spain with bull running ,pyrotechnic chupinazo,
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The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, historically rooted celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The celebrations start at noon on the sixth of July, when the party starts with the setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo,[a] and continue until midnight, on the fourteenth of July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí. While its most famous event is the encierro, or Running of the bulls
Running of the bulls
The running of the bulls (In Spanish encierro or los toros de san Fermin[f]) involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-meter (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. The run ends in the Pamplona's bullring taking a mean time of around 3 minutes where the bulls would be held until the afternoon's bullfight when they would be killed. Bullruns are held between July 7 and 14 and a different encaste (sub-breed) of bull appears each day.
The event begins at 8 a.m. when a first firecracker is lit to announce the release of the bulls from their corral. Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974.[10] Runners gather earlier at the beginning of the itinerary to ask for the protection of the Saint by singing a chant three times before a small statue of San Fermín which has been placed in a raised niche in a wall: “To San Fermin we ask to be our patron saint and to guide us in the running of the bulls, giving to us his blessing”.[15] A second cracker signals that the last bull has left the corral. There are six fighting bulls accompanied by six oxen (often white and brown colored) that guide them to the plaza and followed by three more not fighting oxen. There are also some shepherds guiding the bulls, wearing green T-shirts and holding long poles. Once all of the bulls have entered the arena, a third rocket is released while a fourth firecracker indicates that the bulls are in their bullpens and the run has concluded. After the end of the run young cows with wrapped horns[g] are released in the bullring and toss the participants, to the amusement of the crowd.
The circuit has only changed slightly since 1852 as the former bullring was located close to the present one. Before that date the bullrunning ended in the castle plaza, still not far from the present bullring.[10] While the origin of this tradition was the necessity to move the bulls from outside the city to the bullring for the bullfight it is not clear when citizens began to run in front of them. There are written records in 1787 that the tradition was already well established with no memory of its beginning.[10] The tradition of singing for protection to the saint dates back to 1962.[10]
The event is dangerous. Since 1925, 15[16] people have been killed during the event –– most recently on July 10, 2009[17]—and every year between 200 and 300 people are injured during the run although most injuries are contusions due to falls and are not serious.[18]
Giants and big-heads paradethe running of the bulls, at 8:00 AM from July 7 to 14, the festival involves many other traditional and folkloric events. It is known locally as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre. Its events were central to the plot of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, which brought it to the general attention of English-speaking people. It has become probably the most internationally renowned fiesta in Spain. Over 1,000,000 people come to participate in this festival.Pamplona travel,
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Places to see in ( Soria - Spain )
Places to see in ( Soria - Spain )
Soria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Situated on the Rio Duero in the east of the autonomous community, Soria is noted for its walls and a number of architecturally distinctive churches.
Although Soria never was a bishopric, its St. Peter's church became the Co-Cathedral of the bishopric of Osma when that was renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria on 1959.03.09. The province of Soria has a Minor Basilica, the Marian Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Miagros, in Ágreda.
Alot to see in ( Soria - Spain ) such as :
The Renaissance Ayuntamiento (Town Hall, 16th century), in the Plaza Mayor (main square)
Palacio de la Audiencia (theatre), from 1739
Nuestra Señora de la Mayor (16th century), with a Romanesque portal
Iglesia del Espino (16th century)
Plateresque Concatedral de San Pedro, erected in the 12th-13th centuries, rebuilt in the 16th century, and its cloister.
San Juan de Rabanera, Romanesque church from the 12th century
San Polo, a former monastery of the Knights Templar. The churches of San Nicolás and San Ginés are from the same age.
The Romanesque convent church of Santo Domingo (12th century)
San Juan de Duero with its 12th century ruined cloisters located on the other side of the river from the old town.
Sanctuaries of Ermita de San Saturio (18th century) and Ermita de la Soledad (17th century)
Palacio de los condes de Gomara (Judiciary Palace, 1592)
Remains of the medieval castle, commanding the town from the eponymous hill, and of the walls
A few kilometres north of the town are the ruins of Numantia, a Celtiberian town whose inhabitants destroyed it rather than let it fall to Scipio. In Soria is the Museo Numantino, devoted to the archaeological remains of this site.
Soto Playa
Ermita de San Saturio
The city is served by the Soria Railway Station, with daily services to Madrid via Guadalajara. There are also many bus lines to neighbouring cities. A new highway has reduced the trip to Madrid by car down to 2 hours. Soria sits on the banks of Douro river, in its upper course. Its municipality is formed by the city, Barrio Las Casas and three locations: Oteruelos, Pedrajas and Toledillo.
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