things to do in navarra

There are plenty of activities on offer in Navarra to give you that all important taste of Spain.

Walk a part of the Camino de Santiago. The famous pilgrimage route runs from the French border across Navarra, but there's no need to trek the whole way. Choose just a short section of it - the stage heading west from Pamplona is particularly attractive and scattered with pretty villages.

The roads and villages to the southeast of San Sebastián are scenically stunning. Take the NA 2540 and NA 2600 through Ziga, Elizondo, Arizkun and Erratzu. But watch out for the witches - in the early 1600s the Inquisition condemned 158 witches in the tiny village of Zugarramurdi alone and found 1,590 in Navarre as a whole.

Relive the adventures of Hemingway. The writer spent time in the mountain village of Burguete, almost on the French border; the characters in his novel The Sun Also Rises come here for a few days' trout fishing. It's still a charming little place, just a few kilometres from the monastery and mountain pass at Roncesvalles.