Dance festival

The stony, belowground-level oval of the Plaza de los Fueros, cut off from the city by an always-green park and in the middle of a major road junction, is horne to the folk festival which takes place at one o'clock in the aftemoon on the sixth of July, so-on after the firing of the rocket which announces the start of the Fiesta (already in full swing). Here, the people from Parnplona and the visitors to the city enjoy themselves by dancing an aurresku (Basque dance of welcome), a jota from Ochagavía, a paloteado frorn the South of Navarra, a dantza from Zuberoa (north), a group dance or the multitudinous baile de la Era from Estella, a moment when many spectators become actors and join the rows of dancers in their colourful costumes, large belts and sharp-sounding small bells. 

The dancing is a chance for people to enter into contact with the folk roots of Navarra, with everyone holding back their emotions, quite a contrast with the festive craziness going on around them.