FESTIVALS OF NAVARRA is a programme designed by the Government of Navarra to contribute towards the defence and dissemination of interculturality and racial harmony through the promotion of creative work from a specific region, country or culture.

The festival is to be held from the 26th of July to the 7th of August at two venues very near to each other: the Navarran Palacio de Congresos and Auditorium, Baluarte, and the walled area of the Ciudadela.

The programme includes traditional, religious and popular music concerts, dramatic arts and other forms of cultural expression, such as film, conferences, visual arts, etc.

A interesting, enriching, varied programme is made available to the public at two complementary venues: an auditorium equipped with the latest technology, services and facilities, and a park in the middle of the city, a breathing space in the heart of Pamplona.

FESTIVALS OF NAVARRA AND EUROPE

Over their more than twenty-year history, the Festivals of Navarra have worked in order to offer the local population a package based on a quality programme. Recent years have seen festivals held in Pamplona devoted to the Balkans (2000), the Eastern Mediterranean (2001), Japan (2002) and Brazil (2003).

In 2004, and in order to celebrate the Jacobean Holy Year, Europe and European culture have been chosen as the theme for the programme. There was a time when the Pilgrim’s Road to Santiago represented a means of contact, a generously flowing current spreading knowledge and bringing together peoples of different origins.

Today, as then, Europe, with its wealth of autochthonous art forms and its capacity to assimilate contributions from other cultures, is the territory under study at the 2004 Festivals of Navarra.

THE IMAGE

Created as on other occasions by the Navarran illustrator Txema Sanz (Pamplona, 1963).
A white bull with the beautiful Europa riding on its back beneath a starry sky. The legend of the Kidnapping of Europa is the image chosen this year, a year in which the programme chosen has been inspired by a continent which over the centuries has seen numerous cultures living on its lands, even before the Greek God kidnapped the Phoenician Princess.

PROGRAMME

The festival is to be held at two venues very near to each other: Pamplona’s Ciudadela park and the Auditorium, Baluarte.