Classic Hemingway Tour in Navarra

Classic Hemingway Tour in Navarra

Our Hemingway Tour is a delightful walking tour to discover the Navarran Pyrenees as we follow in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. It is an all year round day trip which includes visits to places enjoyed by Hemingway as well as gastronomic experiences related to his life and work. We visit different iconic places in the Navarre Pyrenees where Hemingway spent a lot of time.

Meet in Plaza Castillo for a brief introduction to Hemingway’s Pamplona

Walk along the banks of the Irati River, where Hemingway loved fishing

Retrace his steps to the town of Aribe and enjoy local foods and Navarre wine

Visit the town of Burguete, where Hemingway used to stay. Here we have a sit down lunch, Hemingway style.

In Navarre, Ernest Hemingway found an unexpected land that bedazzled him. His traveller spirit takes us into a variety of landscapes, where we try regional dishes and exquisite foods and wines of Navarre.

"It's a shame that Van Gogh did not get to paint Navarre."

Ernest Hemingway

Itinerary
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Stop At: Plaza del Castillo, 31001 Pamplona Spain

Meet in Plaza Castillo for a brief introduction to Hemingway’s Pamplona.After a brief explication we jump in the tour bus and we take a delightful drive to the Pyrenees.

Hemingway was first encouraged to travel to Pamplona for the San Fermin celebrations by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. These two women, who lived in Paris and had included Hemingway and his wife Hadley into their circle of expatriate writers and artists, had been in Pamplona during the Fiesta the previous year. They felt it was essential for Hemingway, the keen observer of life and a budding writer, to experience the fiesta for himself. He was smitten not only by the life and energy of the fiesta itself, but also by the mystery and drama of bull fighting.

HEMINGWAY PLACES IN PLAZA CASTILLO

Bar Txoko

Hotel Quintana - ‘Hotel Montoya’

Café Bar Torino - ‘Bar Milano’

Hotel La Perla

Café Iruña

Café Suizo (no longer there)

Café Kutz (no longer there)

Las Pocholas / Hostal del Rey Noble

“It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and rod-case to go to Burguete. People were on top of the bus, and others were climbing up the ladder. Bill went up and Robert sat beside Bill to save a place for me, and I went back to the hotel to get a couple of bottles of wine to take with us… Robert Cohn stood in the share of the arcade waiting for us to start. A Basque with a big leather wine-bag in his lap lay across the top of the bus in front of our seat, leaning back against our legs. He offered the wine skin to Bill and to me, and when I tipped it up to drink he imitated the sound of a klaxon motor-horn so well and so suddenly that I spilled some of the wine, and everybody laughed. He apologized and made me take another drink…”

Chapter 11, The Sun Also Rises

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Aribeko Zubi Eserkia / Puente Colgante de Aribe, Na-140, 31671 Aribe Spain

Welcome to Northern Spain Travel where our focus is to engender your enthusiasm and curiosity for the history, culture, gastronomy, and landscapes of the fascinating and beautiful areas of northern Spain. Our Hemingway Tour is a delightful walking tour to discover the Navarre Pyrenees as we follow in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. It is a day trip which includes visits to places enjoyed by Hemingway as well as gastronomic experiences related to his life and work.

Walk along the banks of the Irati River, where Hemingway loved fishing, retrace his steps to the town of Aribe and enjoy local foods and Navarre wine, visit the town of Burguete, where Hemingway used to stay. Here we have a sit down lunch, Hemingway style.


Duration: 5 hours

Pass By: Unnamed Road,, 31640 Burguete, Navarra, Spain

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This day trip on the coast technically leaves from Pamplona, however, we are flexible and we can rearrange other starting points. Just let us know.