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Why Navarre

Good food

Navarre offers visitors the taste of the past, because the region has been able to conserve the culinary tradition that makes a meal a social event.

The region's popular cuisine uses all the products that the varied landscape of Navarre offers. Some of its restaurants have achieved international recognition thanks to their balance between traditional and nouvelle cuisine, and also thanks to the excellent quality of the raw material.

Navarrese cuisine is wonderfully accompanied by its red, rose and white wines, protected by the 'Navarra' and 'Rioja' designations of origin.

Let yourself be seduced by the delights of the region's market gardens: asparagus, artichokes, chard, red piquillo peppers or pochas (succulent beans). Enjoy ajoarriero (cod in oil and red peppers), a chuletón (T-bone steak) and a variety of roast meats. And do not forget dessert: cheese, cuajada (junket), canutillos (wafers with cream) and leche frita (a type of custard, literal translation: fried milk).

Pinchos (tapas)

In the Old Part of Pamplona, but also in the rest of the city, you can find this exquisite cuisine in miniature that satisfies the deep-rooted custom of ir de pinchos (going out for tapas) as an aperitif before a meal. Most bars have a wide range of pinchos to please all palates. As well as the traditional tapas, sophisticated pinchos are on offer that use the region's products as their base. A great time to visit Navarre is during the "Week of the Pincho", which is held in several places in the region sometime in March and April. Try the most innovative creations of our imaginative and sophisticated chefs.

Buena mesa

Reasons for discovering Navarre