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Puente la Reina
An elegant Romanesque pilgrim bridge arching over the Arga, where the two main Camino routes merge into one path to Santiago.
21 km · about 25 min drive
Navarre, Spain · Europe
Pamplona is worth a stop: 34km from Foz de Lumbier.
Pamplona is a city located in Navarre, Spain. With a population of 208,243, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Pamplona sits in Spain, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Madrid time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Pamplona to your route.
Pamplona (Spanish: [pamˈplona] ; Basque: Iruña [i.ɾuɲa]; officially in its bilingual form: Pamplona-Iruña), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre in Spain. As of 2024, with a population of 208,243, it is the 29th largest city in Spain.
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450 m (1,480 ft) above sea level, the city (and the wider Cuenca de Pamplona) is located on the flood plain of the Arga river, a second-order tributary of the Ebro. Precipitation-wise, it is located in a transitional location between the rainy Atlantic northern façade of the Iberian Peninsula and its drier inland. Early population in the settlement traces back to the late Bronze to early Iron Age, even if the traditional inception date refers to the foundation of Pompaelo by Pompey during the Sertorian Wars circa 75 BC. During Visigothic rule Pamplona became an episcopal see, serving as a staging ground for the Christianization of the area. It later became one of the capitals of the Kingdom of Pamplona/Navarre.
The city is famous worldwide for the running of the bulls during the San Fermín festival, which is held annually from 6 July to 14 July. This festival was brought to literary renown with the 1926 publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises. It is also home to Osasuna, the only Navarrese football club to have ever played in the Spanish top division.
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Pamplona is located in Navarre, Spain, Europe. The coordinates are 42.8169 latitude, -1.6432 longitude.
Pamplona has a population of approximately 208,243 people, making it a city in Spain.
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bridge
An elegant Romanesque pilgrim bridge arching over the Arga, where the two main Camino routes merge into one path to Santiago.
21 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
A short dramatic gorge where griffon vultures wheel above the Irati river, walked via an old railway tunnel into a sheer limestone canyon.
34 km · about 40 min drive
mountain pass
The Roncevaux Pass of legend, where Roland fell in 778: a 1,057 m Pyrenean crossing above Roncesvalles on the classic Camino Francés route into Spain.
35 km · about 40 min drive
castle
A fairy-tale 15th-century Gothic castle of turrets, towers and hanging gardens that was once the lavish seat of the kings of Navarre.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
A serene Romanesque monastery clinging to the Sierra slopes above the turquoise Yesa reservoir, famed for its crypt and Gregorian chant.
44 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Stone-and-slate Pyrenean village at the meeting of the Zatoya and Anduña rivers, crossed by a medieval cobbled bridge and lined with coats-of-arms on whitewashed houses. The classic base for the Irati Forest via the NA-2012.
46 km · about 55 min drive
national park
One of Europe's largest beech-fir forests, ablaze with colour in autumn around the Irabia reservoir deep in the Pyrenees.
48 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Walled medieval hilltop village in the Cinco Villas where Ferdinand II of Aragon was born in 1452, its cobbled lanes and Romanesque church of San Esteban almost untouched since. Orson Welles filmed Chimes at Midnight here.
50 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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