Walking the Camino de Santiago
Pamplona’s Cathedral contains a slew of side-chapels. Most are altars set into niches in the Cathedral’s Gothic interior, but a couple are actually full chapels in their own right. This one contains the tabernacle containing Jesus Himself. I spent a moment here after Mass and before touring the Cathedral and Museum and taking about 200 photos… Date: 02 April 2016 […]
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The interior of Pamplona’s Cathedral of Santa María la Real is about as solidly Gothic as anything. It does not have the massive stained glass windows of other Gothic Cathedrals in Spain and France, but what it lacks in glass it makes up for in stone. This is a shot of the ceiling in the nave. The Mass was lovely, […]
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This main entrance of Pamplona’s Cathedral of Santa María la Real was designated as Holy Doors for the Jubilee Year of Mercy. You can see the banners on either side of the doors. We had come to the Cathedral this morning for Mass and to visit the Diocesan Museum. Although the outside of the Cathedral is solidly neo-classical, the interior […]
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So this is just your average shop in the old city center of Pamplona. Our plan was to spend a day exploring the city. It was one of my favourite places in my first Camino. But before we could do that, Francine needed to take advantage of Spain’s socialized health care and purchase medicine for her feet at stupid cheap […]
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I kind of love this sign, which appears above the entrance of a shop in Pamplona. It pretty much says almost everything about the city that you need to know, from a visitor’s perspective. San Fermin. Bulls. Hemmingway. Date: 02 April 2016 Place: Pamplona (Navarra, Spain)
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We first met these two sisters from Colorado in Zubiri, I think. Certainly, we stayed in the same albergue with them there. We spent some time walking with them on April 1st, as they were much faster than us, but prone to taking wrong turns and then having to catch up. Together, we all walked into Pamplona. They are absolutely […]
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When he lived in Pamplona, Ernest Hemingway hung out at a little bar inside Café Iruña. When he left, the bartender retired Hemingway’s barstool and eventually commissioned a statue of him sitting in his usual spot. Three years ago, I came here to see the Hemingway statue, but unfortunately the bar was closed for repairs. Finally, I was finally able […]
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We’d never managed to have lunch. So Francine (and Lauren and Francesca) and I checked in to the large, modern Albergue de Jesús y María, took our showers, and headed out to find some food. We had hoped (and planned and hoped) to meet with some of our Camino family from 2013 at Café Iruña. Alas! It was not to […]
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Welcome to Pamplona! The transition from outside to inside the walls is stark and sudden. This gate is really the most surprising of the liminal spaces on the early part of the Camino. You just don’t expect to turn a corner and suddenly find yourself in a city. Date: 01 April 2016 Place: Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) Our current position may […]
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It’s difficult to get a good idea of the size of Pamplona’s Renaissance-era walls from a photo. They tower above those walking in their shadow. Here we see (from left to right) Lauren, Francesca, and Francine walking the Camino path along the walls towards the Magdalene Gate into the city. This area is famously where St. Ignatius of Loyola was […]
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