| Pamplona
 Standing
on the right bank of the Arga, a tributary of the Ebro, only 92kms from
San Sebastian, Pamplona is the historical capital of the Basque Country
(Euskal Herria in Basque).
The city is famous
for the San Fermín festival, on July 7, during which the running
of the bulls or encierro is one of the main attractions. Ernest Hemingway
made this local fiesta of Pamplona world-famous in The Sun Also Rises
(1926).
Pamplona
sits on a climatic frontier: to the south the climate is warm, dry, arid
and very similar to the landscape found in parts of Castile. To the north
the climate is cool and dry and very similar to the landscape of the Aquitaine
forest.
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