Jarauta

This is the local classic area: practically everyone from Pamplona will pass through this area at some stage during the Fiesta.

Not only are all the normal bars open here but also quite a number of special places just open for these days of the Fiesta. Gourmet's clubs, the "Peñas" clubs, even some normal stores, all tend to stack up on alcohol for these days and become temporary dance-floors for the duration. The atmosphere is pretty hectic and for a young crowd mostly (under thirty) but really anything goes in this area.

The music will be both canned and live and of all types: basque music, jotas, salsa, rock 'n roll, Basque rock, tex-mex, andaluz, or just whatever pop music is popular at that moment. The people dance in the street or inside the bars to whatever music is being played in each particular bar so you can imagine the cacophony of sound !

Jarauta Street is the favourite haunt of the "Peñas", so you can expect to be interrupted by the appearance of a live brass band from time to time in the late hours of the night. Most of them have their premises on this street.

Jarauta also attracts the street vendors who will be selling all sorts of cheap gadgets and whatever kinds of crazy fads that become popular any particular year....wigs, mexican hats, plastic jewellery, sunglasses, baloons, whatever and all at whatever price they can get. Also, lots of little food stands of all sorts of dubious quality and uncertain standards. Sometimes it can be good, but you might just get a dose of the runs just when you don't need it. Depending on the hours it can look very appetizing, but after eating and suffering the consequences, quite a lot of people think of the vendor’s mother/father.

If you come for the festivals you can’t leave without visiting Jarauta street, where you will find a very special atmosphere of the Sanfermin festival. Most of the time the street will be completely full of people, but you have to live it.