PAMPLONA,the fiesta starts

From July 6th to 14th every year the word fiesta is written in cap-ital letters in Pamplona. The SANFERMINES have arrived. When thechupinazo (ceremonial rocket) is fired the city explodes into life.Thousands of people from all over the world descend on the city,which dresses up in red and white. For nine days the streets turninto a feast of friendship, joy, music and non-stop partying, to therhythm of the charangas and the peñas.

THE ENCIERRO (Bull Run) is the only moment of the day when theparty stops, and great tension descends on the route just a few min-utes before the bulls start their ‘race’ behind the mozos (youngmen). The surge of emotions culminates in the bullring at the endof the run. The fiesta continues with caldico (clear broth) choco-late with churros (long doughnuts), the Gigantes (ceremonialgiants) and Cabezudos (carnival figures with big heads), the aper-itif, the bullfight in the evening, or the fireworks at night. Thesethen give way to all-night partying.

AND AFTER THE FIESTA... COMES THE CALM. After experiencingthis world-famous fiesta, what better way to enjoy a deserved restby visiting one the most welcoming parts of Navarre. Relax in thegreen Pyrenees, stroll through leafy oak and beech woods, orswim in a crystal-clear river. If you prefer, head south to meet thewarm and friendly people of La Ribera and the plains under the hotsun, and enjoy the gastronomy of the Ebro valley.

Why Pamplona?

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Accommodation

City Hotels

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Room facilitiesThe rooms are comfortable andspacious and are fitted with airconditioning, TV, satellite dish,telephone, Internet access,minibar, safe, hairdryer. Roomservice is also available.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, gym, sauna,jacuzzi, squash court, cafeteria,restaurant hairdressing salonas well as conference rooms forcorporate events and socialoccasions.

Tres ReyesHotel ****Number of rooms: 160Location: City centre, close tothe city’s Old Quarters.

Room facilitiesFollowing the high standard ofquality, design and comfortcharacteristic of AC hotels, itsairconditioned rooms are fittedwith TV, ambient music andfree minibar.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, gym, restau-rant, ample bar area, readingroom, WiFi access to Internetand four conference rooms.

AC Ciudad dePamplona Hotel ****Number of rooms: 117Location: Near the hospital centresand university campus.

Room facilitiesIts comfortable and spaciousrooms are fitted with TV,ambient music, safe, minibar,hairdryer. Room service is alsoavailable.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, gym, cafete-ria and 15 meeting rooms.

NH Iruña Park Hotel ****Number of rooms: 225Location: City centre, minutesaway from Old Quarters andclose to university and hospitalcentres.

Following two years of completerenovation work La Perla reope-ned at the end of June 2007 as a5 star hotel. Located in the very

heart of Pamplona, La PerlaHotel provides the perfect loca-tion for both the leisure andbusiness travellers.

La Perla Hotel*****Number of rooms: 43Location: Placed in a refurbished 6storey building at the historicalcentre. Each of its three facadeslooks over strategic places, theCastle Square, Estafeta street (part

of the runningcourse) andChapitelastreet.

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Room facilitiesAir conditioning, fully-fittedbathroom, satellite TV, tele-phone and minibar.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, gym,Turkish baths, WiFi access toInternet, bar, restaurant andspacious rooms for social andcorporate events.

AC Zizur Hotel **** Number of rooms: 73Location: Newly built hotel close tothe university and hospital centresand easy to reach by road from theindustrial estates.This is an idealhotel for visitors who wish to com-bine leisure and business.

City Hotels

A recently opened, modernand functional hotel with 85rooms, from which 82 are dou-ble rooms and, 3 Junior Suiteswith living room. All rooms arefully equipped and their décorreflects the latest in moderndesign. The incorporation ofhigh-tech is a delight to ourmost discerning clients.

It provides warm, welcomingrooms for family events andbusiness meetings. The MoreaRestaurant is another of itsgreat features, where the mosttraditional, local dishes arecombined with an innovativesignature cuisine. The hotelhas a gymnasium, sauna andits own large free car park.

Zenit HotelPamplona **** Number of rooms: 85Location: Galaria Commercial andBusiness Centre, 5 minutes awayfrom the city centre and only threeminutes away from Pamplona air-port.

Room facilities: 45 double rooms,one of them with a living roomand an individual room withliving. All the rooms are equip-ped with a complete bathroom,TV, telephone, safe box andminibar.Hotel Facilities: Restaurant, Bar,Garden and Terrace.

Other Services: Spa for generalpublic and clients use. Equippedwith four special cabins for faceand body treatments, the spahas a fitness area, a tepidarium,a hydro-massage swimming pool,two aquatic beds, waterfalls,sauna, Turkish bath, sensationshowers, samovar and VIP room.

Hotel Gorraiz Golf & Spa **** Number of rooms: 45Location: nestled in the singularnatural environment of the EgüesValley, 5 minutes away fromPamplona. A Boutique hotel withexquisite sophistication, relaxingviews and direct access to the golfclub.

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City Hotels

Room facilities:The 102 rooms are totally sound-proofed. with en-suite bathro-om, air conditioning, satelliteTV,ambient music, telephone, mini-bar, safe and internet access.

Hotel facilities:Covered car park, cafeteria, bar,restaurant and soundproofedmeeting rooms for social andcorporate events, laundry, room-service and buffet breakfast.

Blanca de NavarraHotel ***Number of rooms: 102Location: City centre, minutesaway from Old Quarters andclose to university and hospitalcentres.

Room facilitiesFully-fitted bathroom, satelliteTV, telephone, ambient music,Internet access, minibar, airconditioning and heating.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, sauna, cafe-teria, restaurant (traditionalcuisine with local produce),pub and meeting rooms with acapacity for 10 to 400 people.

Maisonnave Hotel *** Number of rooms: 138Location: Right in the city centre, inPamplona’s historical area.

Room facilitiesRooms are sound-proof and arefitted with air conditioning,satellite TV, ambient music,telephone, fully-fitted bath-room, hairdryer, minibar andsafe.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, cafeteria,restaurant and meeting roomswith audiovisual facilities.

Albret Hotel *** Number of rooms: 101Location: Sited in the modernMendebaldea neighbourhood. Barely100 m from the city’s hospitals, itbenefits from direct access to themain industrial estates and centralcommercial districts.

Hotel Holiday Inn ***Location: placed at the IndustrialPark of Mutilva Baja, closed to theCommercial Centre La Morea. It isonly 10 minutes away fromPamplona centre by car and 1 km

away fromPamplonaairport.

Room facilities: 77 double roomswith air conditioner, completebathroom, cable TV, telephone,Internet connection and kettle.

Hotel facilities: Parking and cove-red garage, bar, restaurant, busi-ness corner and meeting rooms.

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City Hotels

City Aparthotel

Room facilities: 60 luminoustotally equipped rooms, withair conditioning, TV, directtelephone, Internet, free WiFi.

Hotel facilities: parking and cov-ered garage; restaurant, featur-ing a private dining room andserving a daily menu; meetingand banquet rooms.

Husa Noáin Hotel ***Number of rooms: 60Location: opened in November2003, located 200m away from theairport, 5 minutes drive fromPamplona and 3 from the Hospitaland University centres. Permanentpublic bus service connection withPamplona city centre.

Room Facilities:Suites with one or two sleepingrooms, fully-fitted bathroom, sit-ting room cum dining room.Fully equipped kitchen, satelli-te TV and direct telephone,Washer and dryer, Refrigerator,Microwave oven

Hotel Facilities:Covered car park, WiFi access toInternet, Laundry service, 24hours reception.

Mirasierra Apartments *** Number of rooms: 46Location: Modern building closet othe University and Hospital centres.

Room facilities:Luminous and spacious suites-apartments, decorated with ahigh quality design. Individual,double and king size bedrooms. All rooms are fittedwith telephone, bathroom, liv-ing room, TV, and fully-fittedkitchen, including microwave.

Hotel facilities:Car park, laundry service, WiFiaccess to Internet, cibercentre,cafeteria, reception and safe.Supermarket at the buildingground floor.

San FermínAH Suites Apartments *** Location: Building with 86 apart-ments recently built, 5 minutes awayby road from Pamplona.

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Charming rural hotelsRoom facilitiesEach room has its own charac-ter and all fitted with TV, radio,telephone and Internet access.

Hotel facilitiesCovered car park, bar, privaterestaurant, sitting room, meet-ing room and business corner.

La Joyosa GuardaHotel **** (Olite)

Room facilitiesComfortable double roomswith on suite fully–fitted bath-room, TV, telephone, air condi-tioning and safe. Each roomhas its unique décor and it isnamed after a Navarresemonarch.

Hotel facilitiesBar, dining room with fireplacefor breakfast and dinner, con-servatory, reading room withlibrary, table games and a spa-cious terrace.

Nobles de NavarraHotel *** (Aibar)

Room facilitiesSpacious rooms with a warmand welcoming décor and fit-ted with air conditioning, TV,telephone, ADSL Internetaccess and ambient music.

Hotel facilitiesCar park, SPA with Jacuzzi,sauna and hydro-jets, restau-rant, sitting rooms with fire-places, reading area, snookertable, meeting room for privatehire, Basque pelota court and a4 Ha garden with furniture andfootpaths.

Señorío de UrsuaHotel *** (Arizkun)

Conceived as a place for relaxby the architects Lopez- Rivera.The hotel is located in the heartof Bardenas Reales, both thearchitecture and the interiordesign are in perfect harmonywith the breathtaking and auste-re scenery. Aire, designed as asingle storey building, has 22rooms, some of them with indi-vidual garden, and other adjoi-ning rooms with a view to thewheat fields. The hotel has aswimming pool and meeting

room. Its large windows showthe rugged scenery; its almondcourtyard, the local vegetation,the kitchen garden are part ofthe landscape. The excellencepersonal service is a hotel tra-demark.Cuisine: high variety of exquisi-te vegetables, cultivated by ourcooks in our kitchen garden.Aire, where luxury is not seen,but lived.

Aire BardenasHotel ****(Tudela)

Number of rooms: 24Location: Located in the old quarters of medieval Olite, the buildingwas an 18th century palatial house now fully renovated whilemaintaining reminders of its historical past.

Number of rooms: 11Location:An elegant ancestral house situated at the heart of themedieval and noble town of Aibar. The building has been renovated in order to pro-vide a perfect marriage of rustic and modern elements of interior design.

Number of rooms: 19Location: A 17th century Basque farmhouse surrounded by majestic mountains andgreen hillsides dotted with farmhouses.The building has been renovated to provideall modern facilities while maintaining its ancestral character.

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Charming rural hotels

Other accommodations

Room facilitiesEach of the 14 spacious roomshas its own décor, fully-fittedbathroom with bath menu, TV,telephone and minibar.

Hotel facilitiesPrivate car park, gym, sauna,restaurant, sitting and meetingrooms, WiFi Internet connex-ion and garden.

Churrut Hotel ***(Bera de Bidasoa)Number of rooms: 17Location: Bera de Bidasoa.This18th century building has beenconverted into a hotel with allmodern facilities while maintainingits characteristic family hometouch.

We can also offer a wide rangeof standard accommodation in

hotels located in villages closeto Pamplona.

Located in Barasoain, the mainvillage of Valdorba valley, in thegeographical centre of Navarra.The building was a XV centurynoble house which has beencompletely restored in 2006,with a combination of modernarchitecture elements that con-trasts with the traditional

frame of the valley. An unfor-gettable place, where eleganceand quality are present inevery detail. The rooms aredesigned to fulfil the expecta-tions of the most exigentclients.

Merindades deNavarra Hotel ***(Barasoáin) Plaza de la Paz, 131395 - Barasoain

Rooms, with a colourful, moderndécor, fully equipped with flatscreen TV, Central heating, Airconditioning, Safe, Office desk,Internet connection and full-fit-ted bathroom.

Private parking facilities are offe-red for Hotel guests. The hotelhas a spacious garden whichadds to guest enjoyment.

Ibaiondo Hotel ***(Olabe)Number of rooms: 14The hotel is located in a privilegedsetting right in the countryside, nextto the river Ultzama in the village ofOlabe, just 10 km from thePamplona city centre

Activities

San Fermín FiestasDuration: According to programmeAvailability: From 6tht to 14th JulyGroup size: Up to 200 people

Accommodation reservationThe population in Pamplona doubles its size during Sanfermines,and this makes securing accommodation rather difficult for thosewho wish to visit the city and enjoy the Fiesta.

Thanks to our well- established credentials in the tourism sectorand our long-standing professional relationship with the city’smain hotels, we are able to pre-book accommodation that will beexclusively available to our clients. Depending on their personalpreferences and requirements, our clients can choose amongst awide range of accommodation, which includes city hotels inPamplona and charming rural hotels in the surrounding area.

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Txupinazo Programme

Every 6th of July at 12 noon, the “txupinazo”(ceremonial rocket) is fired from the TownHall’s balcony and this officially opens theFiesta. Following the tradition, thousands ofpeople, dressed in white and with a red scarf intheir hands, start gathering at the Town Hall

Square from 10 am, singing and cheering Saint Fermin while theyeagerly wait for the designated councillor to fire the “txupinazo”.In that very moment, everybody puts their read scarf round theirnecks and opens bottles of cava. The whole square “explodes” andturns into a gigantic celebration where everybody starts dancingas the City’s Music Band comes out from the Town Hall and playswhile making their way through the crowd.

We offer our clients exclusive use of balconies overlooking the TownHall Square, privileged locations from where they can watch theopening of the festivities and share the emotion of the crowd gath-ered at the square. Our guides will meet the clients at a hotel locat-ed in the city’s old quarters at 10:30 am., Then the clients will betaken to their balconies, where they will enjoy a snack while theyare told about the origins, history and traditions associated withSanfermines and the “txupinazo”. Cold drinks, wine and, of course,cava to toast to the beginning of the Fiesta, will also be included.

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Bull Run BalconiesThe Bull Run takes place every morningfrom 7th to 14th July and starts at 8am,when the bulls leave the Santo DomingoCorral and cover the 830 m distance tothe bullring in approximately 3 min-utes. There are bull runs in many other

localities in Navarra, but the one in Pamplona is very special dueto its worldwide fame and to the size of the bulls, which weighbetween 500 kg and 700 kg. The international fame of Sanferminesresults in the participation of 2,000 -3000 runners each day. Theonly way to enjoy and participate of this event in life is from a bal-cony.

VIP BalconiesOur programme consists in hiring and securing places for ourclients at balconies on the first or second floors of buildings locat-ed along the course of the Bull Run, so to live fully the emotion ofthe race. Our guides and clients will meet at a nearby hotel at 6:30am and from there they will go to their respective balconies togeth-er. Those clients staying at hotels in the modern part o f the citywill be picked up by our own bus and taken directly to the meet-ing point. The clients will be accompanied by one of our guides.Once at the balcony the guide will provide a detailed descriptionof the Bull Run, its origin and history and all the rituals of the race.The guide will also explain some of the traditions followed by thelocals and all the small details of whatever happens at that momentin the street. All together will watch thebulls and runners racing by. After those moments full of emotions,and over a breakfast snack, the guide will provide further expla-nations while clients watch a replay of the televised coverage of thewhole Bull Run.

Standard BalconiesWe also organise the booking of Standard balconies in third andfourth floors along the running course without a local guide serv-ice. Once the booking is confirmed the client receives a voucherwhich will have to be presented at the address and time indicat-ed on it.

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Breakfasts

Following the Bull Run, the Fiesta continues, but it is necessary torecover strength with a good breakfast. Doing this in a quiet andhassle-free venue is nearly impossible due to the huge crowdsgathered around the Bull Run route. However, we can offer ourclients the following two options to enjoy a relaxing breakfast.

VIP Breakfast

The Nuevo Casino Principal is a private club located in a mid 19thcentury building at the Plaza del Castillo (Castle Square), the veryheart of the city.We have exclusive access to the Casino’s Blue Room, where wehave arranged a buffet breakfast for our clients. After breakfast ourclients will be able to enjoy the Baile de La Alpargata (EspadrilleDance), held at the Casino’s Main Hall and attended sometimes byambassadors, celebrities and official dignitaries.

Standard breakfast

Hassle-free and relaxing buffet breakfast at a hotel located inPamplona’s old quarters.

Themed toursWe offer a wide range of trips and visits that complement theSanfermines programme, thus allowing our client to get to knowother aspects of Pamplona and the Navarrese gastronomy.

6th of JulyLunch at the Blue Room in Pamplona’s NuevoCasino a 150 year old historic building at thevery heart of the city and overlooking the fes-tivities. The Chef Jorge Graciawill offer us a

tasting menu of new cuisine in these 19th cen-tury surroundings.

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¡SAN FERMÍN! TOUR OF PAMPLONA’S OLD

QUARTERS.After the post-Bull Run breakfastwe will walk along the streets andwe will learn about Pamplona’s his-tory and origins, we will talkabout the ROUTE TO SANTIAGO

and we will even become pilgrims for a little while, we will havethe chance to watch the GIGANTES Y CABEZUDOS.LUNCH AT MOLINO ERROTA RESTAURANT, in Aoiz, a wonder-fully restored water mill. There we will be able to watch andlearn how to “escanciar” the cider, the technique of pouring thecider from a height directly from the barrel into the glass inorder to get air bubbles into the drink and give it the texture ofsparkling wine.

OTAZU WINE CELLARSThe history of the noble region ofOtazu dates back to medieval times.Since then, its buildings, people andarchitectural richness have develo-ped hand in hand with a thoroughdedication to its vineyards and themaking of unique wines.

Otazu has the most Northern vineyards in Spain where, dependingon the characteristics of the soil, varieties such as Merlot,Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are grown andstrategically combined.A wine tasting session with expert explanations will complementthis visit.Following this stimulation of our tasting buds, José y Asun will offerus a novel gastronomic experience, their “cuisine with feeling”, forwhich they have carefully chosen each of their seasonal ingre-dients.

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FINCA LA TEJERÍA

Miguel Reta, a herdsman of the Bull Run,will receive us in the Finca (ranch) LaTejería, where Navarrese fighting bullsare bred. This breed is characterised byrelatively small, bright red coated bullswhich are agile, alert, nervous and aggres-

sive as well as very brave. This breed was at the peak of its popu-larity between the 18th century and mid 19th century. By the mid20th century it had lost its importance due to the preferences ofthe new bullfighting style, which favoured bigger bulls that wouldram more readily and therefore, presented less complications to thebullfighter.

The visit to Finca La Tejería starts with an introductory explana-tion of the technical and scientific process involved in the recoveryof the Navarrese breed. This is followed by a walk on the country-side where there will be opportunities to get safely close to the freeranging bulls, to feed them and to take part in other routine cho-res of cattle farming.The visit will end with a “comida campera” (Pic-nic style).

Other excursions

For those clients who wish to take advantage of their stay inPamplona to know other places in Navarre, Basque Country or LaRioja, we offer customised excursions. For any further informationplease do not hesitate to contact us.

Other services

We offer our clients a wide range of services that could maketheir visit to Pamplona during Sanfermines much easier. This inclu-des transfers, local guides, arrangements for personalised traditio-nal gifts and souvenirs and reservation of hotel rooms in others loca-lities in Navarre or the rest of Spain.

Transfers

We offer a wide choice of high quality private transport, includingcoaches and minibuses.

Local Guides

Tailor-made visits to Pamplona and other Navarrese localities canbe arranged through our personal guide tour service. Our guideswill accompany you to the places of interest you would like to visit,providing information about the place and facilitating any arrange-ments you may need to make during your stay.

Nationwide accommodation

We can arrange hotel reservations for those clients who would liketo complement their stay in Pamplona with visits to other Spanishdestinations

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