You say Pamplona and you're thinking of the Sanfermines. And then in Hemingway, a frequenter of Navarre, who made the feast of St. Fermin famous in the world with his articles and the novel Fiestas (The sun still stands), in which he told the magnificent impression that he had of taurine culture, gastronomy and character of people.
Today we can discover the city and its surroundings on the footsteps of the great American writer, following an itinerary that traces the places that marked his life experience in this beautiful land.
The future Nobel Prize came to Pamplona for the first time with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, on July 6, 1923. The feasts of Sanfermines hit him so deeply that he returned on various occasions, the last time in 1959. During his stay in Pamplona, he usually stayed at the hotel La Perla in the square of Castillo and he was often seen sitting in one of the dehors of this square or running the encierro.
He was also a lover of good food and regular customer of restaurants and bars, as well as House Marceliano where he tasted the most traditional dishes of the Navarre cuisine, of which his favorite was the ajoarriero with shrimp, recipe signed by his friend Matías Anoz. In Pamplona, this tourist route passes through a dozen places, of which the Café Iruña, one of Hemingway's favorites, and Gran Hotel La Pearl where the writer stayed in room 217, overlooking the Estafeta street, in order to see the encierros.
The route to Pamplona is a comfortable walk that can be realized during a day. However, outside the capital there are other beautiful places of Navarre lived and loved by Hemingway. This is about locations like Auritz- Burguete, Aribe, Lekunberri and Yesa, chosen by the writer to rest, enjoy the panorama and dedicate to one of his greatest passions: fishing. Of these scampanate was traced on the journey into the pyrenaic valleys of Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton, the protagonists of "Fiesta".
