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The chapel of San Fermín

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The external archery

In the spring of 2008, in the course of some interior renovation work on the portal residential building that corresponds to issue 18 of the Rincón de la Aduana, an arch was discovered that continues the sequence of the exterior arches of the Chapel of San Fermín at that point, an arch that in no way differs from its predecessors. It is not possible to affirm or deny the existence of another arched opening that continues the sequence without first accessing a certain space on portal, which remains hidden; but it is certain that the 1696 councillors conceived the perimeter circuit of the chapel as a stage for processions, when bad weather prevented them from taking place in the streets. A painting by Miguel Sanz Benito, depicting the episode of the O'Donell uprising in Pamplona, shows that in 1841 this gallery of arches was already embedded in the housing estate. As a curious fact, it should be noted that the grilles of this gallery leave come from the cast iron sold by the Cathedral Chapter in 1806, weighing slightly more than 331 arrobas, from the dismantling of the grilles of the chapels of the Pamplona Cathedral, undertaken in accordance with Ochandátegui's plans, approved by the Academy for that church.

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The external archery

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  • ANÓNIMO, Relación de las Plausibles Fiestas con que ha celebrado la Mui Noble i Mui Leal Ciudad de Pamplona, Cabeza del Ilmo. y Fidelissimo Reyno de Navarra, la Translación de su Gran patron saint San Fermín de la Antigua Capilla a la Nueva, que ha fabricado su devoción, Pamplona, Juan José Ezquerro, 1717.

  • GARCÍA GAINZA, M. C. and others, Catálogo Monumental de Navarra, t. V***, Merindad de Pamplona. Pamplona. Indices generales, Pamplona, Government of Navarre, Archbishopric of Pamplona, University of Navarre, 1997, pp. 187-196.

  • MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., Capilla de San Fermín en la iglesia de San Lorenzo de Pamplona, Pamplona, Diputación Foral de Navarra-Institución "Príncipe de Viana",Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, 1974.

  • MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., El culto a San Fermín, in "Sanfermines. 204 horas de historia", Pamplona, Larrión y Pimoulier, 1992, pp. 31-39.

  • MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., Las Capillas de San Fermín y Ntra. Sra. del Camino en Pamplona, in "El Arte en Navarra", no. 27, Pamplona , Diario de Navarra, 1995 , pp. 417-432.

  • On the website of the Chair de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro: An example of a "green man" in the Chapel of San Fermín in Pamplona, in "La pieza del mes", December 2013.

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