Other regional fairs of great interest are the Medieval Celebrations of Olite around the town castle and streets, which is repeated every August. In a medieval atmosphere, craftsmen markets, performances of jesters and jugglers, medieval parades, horsemen tournaments, and falconing and arching exhibitions can be seen.

Navarrese carnivals, with their typical ‘Zanpantzarrak’, also have a secular tradition and have great ethnographic richness, especially those celebrated in the Navarrese north. Those from Goizueta, Lantz, Lesaka, Alsasua, Unanua and Zubieta stand out. On the other hand, every Sunday of March ‘Javieradas’ is celebrated, an event of more recent origin, in which thousands of Navarrese undertake a pilgrimage to the castle of Javier, to venerate the patron saint of Navarre, San Francisco Javier.

Navarrese gastronomy is very varied and has characteristic dishes like Chilindrones, vegetable stews, Tudelan artichokes, salads, legumes and hunting stews. Asparagus is one of the emblematic products from the Ebro River banks. Thanks to the Mediterranean climate, in this region asparaguses of extraordinary quality can be grown, which have been honoured with a Denomination of Origin because of their excellence.

‘Pacharan’ is a drink made through a traditional system of maceration of ‘pacharanes’, berries which transmit their characteristic red colour to the drink, in ethyl alcohol. Pacharan fame has gone beyond its borders and nowadays it is a drink exported to a lot of places in the world.

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