Sunday, October 12, 2008

Pamplona

Pamplona, Spain is located in the middle of the region Navarre. It is on the bank of the Arga, which is a tributary of the Ebro River. It is about 9.1 sq. miles with a population of 195,769 people. The elevation is 1,457 ft, above sea level.
There are lots of little shops all over the town. Their specialty foods are suckling pig, lamb, goat and other meat roasts. It is usually warm in October in the mid to high sixty's in temperature. There are usually some clouds.
They use the euro for currency. The conversion is 1 euro is equal to 1.35205 U.S. dollars. They have a parlimantary monarchy government, and roman catholic is the main religion. The time change is if it is 10:00 P.M. in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday, it would be 4:00 A.M. on Monday morning.
Britt will be traveling to some parks on one day she is there. She will visit the oldest park which 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 other park she will visit is the Media Luna park which 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 next day she will visit some religious buildings. One of the 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 Recolect nuns and the Carmelite friars, and the Saint Ignatius of Loyola basilica in the place where he was injured in the battle during whose subsequent convalescence he decided to be 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.
The thrid activity she will be doing is looking at some military and civil architecture. One of the places is the citadel of the "star fort". It has had little modifications. All of the other medieval structures were replaced in order to resist artillery sieges.
The oldest civil building today existing is a fourteenth century house that was used as Cámara de Comptos (the court of auditors of the early modern autonomous kingdom of Navarre) from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are also several medieval bridges on the Arga: Santa Engracia, Miluce, Magdalena, and San Pedro. The medieval palace of Saint Peter, which was alternatively used by Navarrese kings and Pamplonese bishops, was used during the early modern age as the Viceroy's palace and later was the seat of the military governor of Navarre; since the Civil War it was ruinous and it was recently rebuilt to be used as the General Archive of Navarre. She will also see a bull run in San Fermin. Hemingway used to love to watch the bulls.
The hotle she will be staying at is the Tryp Burlada. She will check in October 6th and check out October 8th. The average nightly rate is $64.77. The Tryp Burlada Is Located In Burlada, Spain. It is one kilometres from Pamplona, two kilometres from The Navarra Museum, 2.5 kilometres from The Bullring, and six kilometeres from the airport.
She will leave in the evening of October 8th for a three hour and forty minute flight to Paris, France with Iberia Airlines.

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