The Hemingway Route | Ayuntamiento de Pamplona

Tourism

plaza del castillo

Castillo Square

It is the first place in the city that Ernest Hemingway met when he and his wife arrived on July 6, 1923

la perla

Gran Hotel La Perla

The Hotel la Perla was first opened in 1881. It is one of the oldest hotels on the Peninsula

hotel quintana

Hotel Quintana

“Quintana, the best aficionado and most loyal friend in Spain, and with a fine hotel with all the rooms full"

cafe iruña

Café Iruña

The Café Iruña in the Plaza del Castillo was established in 2 July 1888. It was the first establishment lit by electric light in Pamplona

bar txoko

Bar Txoko

“Our public life took place at the Choko bar, under the arcades, next to the hotel that Juanito Quintana owned years ago"

teatro gayarre

Gayarre Theater

The history of the Gayarre Theatre dates back to 1841, when the Principal Theatre opened its doors in today’s Plaza del Castillo

catedral

The cathedral

“I went inside. It was dim and dark and the pillars went high up, and there were people praying, and it smelt of incense, and there were some wonderful big windows. I knelt and started to pray…”

ayuntamiento

The City Hall

“I went to the Ayuntamiento and found the old gentleman who subscribes for the bull-fight tickets for me every year. […] He was the municipal archivist…”

hemingway mercado

The Santo Domingo Market

The Santo Domingo Market was built in 1876 and today it has 45 stalls

hemingway casa marceliano

Casa Marceliano Restaurant (Mercado Street)

A typical Pamplona tavern where Hemingway later regained the happiness he found when he first discovered Pamplona in 1923. It closed in 1993

encierro hemingway

The Running of the Bulls

“This is the ‘encierro’. ‘Aficionados’ are allowed to fight with the bull, but without arms; it is the chance that Pamplona gives them during the San Fermín festival "

corralillos del gas

Gas corrals

“There were many people walking to go and see the bulls. Across the bridge we turned up a road to the corrals…”

plaza de toros hemingway

Bull Ring

“I appeared at the bull ring on five different occasions– I was gored three times, and I managed to engage in four good veronicas and one natural with the muleta; on the last morning, I got bruised in the chest”

monumento hemingway

Hemingway Memorial

In 1966 the City Council awarded him the city’s “Neckerchief of Honour”. Hemingway’s sculpture was inaugurated on 6 July 1968 at 1pm

capilla san fermin hemingway

San Lorenzo Church - Chapel of San Fermín

“I prayed to San Fermín for you. Not that you needed it, but I went in and prayed for everybody”

grand hotel

San Francisco Square (old Grand Hotel)

In a letter he sent to his friend Scott Fitzgerald on 5 January 1930, he recommended three hotels in Pamplona: Grand Deluxe, Quintana and La Perla

calle eslava

5 Eslava Street

Private home in which Hemingway stays for the first time in Pamplona

calle san fermin hemingway

Townhouse, San Fermín Street 7

In 1959 he took rooms in a semidetached house in number 7, San Fermín street, which he called “our little house”

hotel yoldi

Hotel Yoldi

In 1953 he sees for the first time Antonio Ordóñez fight a bull. Ordóñez later sends a not to Hemingway for them to meet at the Yoldi hotel

monumento loyola

San Ignacio de Loyola Memorial

“He was one of the greats. A man like that could save a nation”

sarasate hemingway

“Las Pocholas” Restaurant

The Hostal del Rey Noble was inaugurated on 20 April 1938. It was run by the Guerendiáin sisters, known as ‘Las Pocholas’

murallas hemingway

City Walls

“We walked out across the wet grass and onto the stone wall of the fortifications…”

la bota de las tres zzz

La bota las tres ZZZ

“Young, wearing a blue shirt, red sash, white espadrilles and a wine-skin over his shoulder, the indispensable outfit”

tres reyes hemingway

Hotel Tres Reyes

Mary Welsh, Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, and several members of his family took accommodation at the hotel

ezkaba hemingway

Hemingway knew each and every one of the hideways around Pamplona and its region. One of them was Mount Ezkaba