For the third weekend in a row, the The Comparsa of the Giants and the Big Heads takes to the streets of the Old Town of Pamplona. On this occasion, they do it on the occasion of the festivities of San Fermín de Aldapaknown as San Fermín Chiquito.
Not only the Comparsa of the giants and the big heads of Pamplonabut there will also be reveries on Saturday and Sunday and a concert by La Pamplonesa in the Plaza del Castillo.
In addition, the municipal band and the Comparsa of the giants and the big heads of Pamplona will accompany the procession of San Fermin de Aldapa on Sunday noon. They will also do it with the municipal dance group Duguna.
At 9 am this Saturday, September 21, the municipal events will begin with the wake, in which the bagpipers and the txistulaires will participate. In the afternoon, the Comparison of giants and big heads who will leave at 5 p.m. from the bus station.
Itinerary and timetable of the Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos de Pamplona by San Fermín Chiquito
Since the 5 p.m. and during three and a half hoursyou will walk through the different streets of the old town, until your meeting at the Ezpeleta Palace, in Calle Mayor. It marked route It will take you to Plaza de la Paz, Yanguas and Miranda, García Ximénez, Roncesvalles, Carlos III Avenue, Duque de Ahumada, Estafeta, Tejería, San Agustín, Javier, Dormitalería, Plaza San José, Redín Street, Caballo Blanco, Barquilleros. , Cuesta de Palacio, Aldapa, Calle del Mercado, Cuesta de Santo Domingo, Plaza Consistorial, San Saturnino and Calle Mayor.
While the Comparsa walks the streets of PamplonaThe municipal music group La Pamplonesa will offer a concert at 7 p.m. in the Plaza del Castillo, under the direction of Jesús Garísoain.
On Sunday, bagpipes and txistularis will once again liven up the dawn, from 9am, on the same routes as the day before. On the great day of San Fermín de Aldapa, the Comparison of giants and big headsLa Pamplonesa and the Duguna dance group will support the saint in the procession around the Church of San Fermín de Aldapa.
The first to take to the streets will be the giants and big headsthat at 11 o’clock They will abandon the palace of Ezpeleta towards 2 de Mayo Street, passing through Eslava, San Francisco, Plaza Consejo, Nueva, Plaza Consistorial, Santo Domingo, Mercado and Cuesta del Palacio streets.
They will join the procession Duguna Dancerswhich will leave at 11:30 from the Rochapea Bridge (Curtidores) where the flag raising will take place. A parade will follow along the slope of Santo Domingo to reach the Plaza de San Fermín de Aldapa where the ezpata-txikis will dance in honor of the saint.
THE The procession will start at 12 noon.not only with the dantzaris and with the giants and the big heads, but also with La Pamplonesa. It is planned that they leave the Basilica of San Fermín de Aldapa (Corazonistas) towards the streets Dos de Mayo, Carmen, Aldapa, Zacatín, Mañueta, Curia and Navarrería, to return by the streets of Carmen and Dos de Mayo, towards the basilica again. At the end of the procession, the dancers will cross the arch of San Fermín.
Subsequently, the Comparison of giants and big heads will resume its journey through the streets of Carmen, Navarrería, Curia, Compañía, Merced, Tejería, Estafeta, Duque de Ahumada, Carlos III, Plaza del Castillo, Paseo Sarasate, Alhóndiga, Tudela, Conde Oliveto and Plaza de la Paz, until has I’ll pick you up at the bus station. They will stay there until Feast of Saint Saturnin, November 29.
For his part, once the mass was over, the Duguna Municipal Dance Group He will accompany the procession to the Consistorial Square where he will dance the Sword Dance around 1:15 p.m. Behind them, the ezpata-txikis dance their zortziko again accompanied by the captain.
