Pamplona, a city of some 200,000 people, is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, just some 80 kilometres from the Pyrenees and the Spanish-French frontier. The city lies about 400 kilometres to the north of Madrid, and is found close to some other large cities, viz; Bilbao, Zaragoza, Donostia/San Sebastian and Vitoria/Gasteiz.