Pamplona is green

Pamplona is a town full of green areas and trees and a strategic point from which to move to discover the nature of Navarre. Specifically, our hotel in Pamplona has the perfect location, close and with direct access to the main routes through which you can travel to the main natural areas of the Autonomous Community. And with free parking!

City parks and gardens

Just 5 minutes by bus from the stop in front of bed4U Pamplona, is the city center, where cultural heritage and urban nature merge. It has numerous hectares of parks and gardens that make it a green city and interesting specimens of unique trees dot its parks and streets. Its 60,000 trees and 300 hectares of green areas account for 15% of the city's surface. Undoubtedly, all this contributes to a better quality of life, as well as the promotion of sports, leisure and environmental awareness activities.

1. Belle Epoque Gardens

The collapse of the wall meant the expansion of Pamplona and the birth of a new concept of urbanism with garden designs such as Media Luna and Taconera , in a modernist style.

2. Citadel and Return of the Castle

The I Ensanche was developed around the Citadel, a Renaissance military construction that is surrounded by a green belt that today is known as Vuelta del Castillo. Read more

The city expanded around the Camino de Santiago and opted for the conversion of industrial spaces into green areas, giving rise to parks such as Yamaguchi, in Japanese style. Read more

4. Arga River Park

In the 80s, the recovery of the riverbanks gave rise to the Arga Fluvial Park, a space that, together with the gardens of the university campuses, forms a walk of more than 25 kilometers. Read more

Magical forests, caves, jungles and turquoise waters near Pamplona

Navarra's climatic variety, surprising for a small community like ours, has given us evergreen valleys, beautiful and colorful forests, spectacular gorges carved by the passage of water, lakes and reservoirs, legendary caves and many protected areas, among them , three natural parks. If you love nature, here you will enjoy.

The Irati Forest is the second largest and best preserved beech-fir forest in Europe, after the Black Forest of Germany. An immense green patch of about 17,000 hectares that remains in an almost virgin state. A natural treasure with great ecological value in which dense beech trees, pastures, fir trees and fresh waters paint a landscape of vivid colors that is transformed with each new season.

6. The source of the Urederra

Located north of Estella-Lizarra, it is the natural outlet of the aquifer formed in the karst massif of the Urbasa-Andía Natural Park . It is a walk of about 2 and a half hours, through a thick forest where beech trees stand out and through which there are pools of turquoise water that are formed as a result of the karst phenomenon, through which the water filters through from the cracks in the rocks rising again and again from the bowels of the earth.

7. Señorío de Bértiz Natural Park.

Does the idea of visiting a beautiful historical-artistic garden appeal to you and discovering such unique species as Chinese ginkgoes, California redwoods, Balkan chestnut trees and water lilies? Do you want to meet friendly animals such as blackbirds, squirrels or woodpeckers? Would you like to spend a quiet day feeling the heartbeat of the forest? All this is possible in the Señorío de Bertiz Natural Park. 2,052 hectares of lush vegetation 49 km. north of Pamplona.

8. Zugarramurdi Caves

In the western Pyrenees, beyond the Baztan valley and a short distance from the border with France, is Zugarramurdi, the town of witches, where fantasy and reality mix to give the imagination the possibility of making an exciting journey through time . Its cave, 400 meters from Zugarramurdi , can be visited until dusk.

9. Foz de Lumbier

Griffon vultures flying over the cliff; brave cliffs where birds nest; a river of clean and fresh waters that carves narrow and capricious steps into the rocks; the remains of a bridge that, according to legend, was built with the help of the devil; two tunnels that once crossed the first electric train in Spain. The result, a rugged landscape that you can enjoy if you approach the gorge of Lumbier, a narrow gorge carved by the Irati river and declared a nature reserve.

10. Sierra de Urbasa

Meadows and lush beech trees alternate in this protected area of idyllic landscape, whose southern edge falls sharply on the Valley of the Améscoas, forming the impressive natural viewpoint of the Urederra source circus. Places dotted with resonances of life that hunters, shepherds, loggers and charcoal burners led here for centuries