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thursday 06 february 2025
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. 
This year Olentzero has gone without bans
Jagoba Manterola/ Argazki Press
Pamplona. After years of prohibitions and complicated situations, this year Olentzero (also called Olentzero, Onentzero, Onontzero, Orentzaro, Orantzaro…) has travelled the streets of Pamplona and for the first time has been received by the City Council, on the occasion of the change of municipal government of the elections last May. Members of the Friends of Olentzero association were pleased and added that “our Olentzero is not the Basque Bizarzuri. We're not promoting that idea, we're promoting the idea of popular mythology. Olentzero is the winter solstice, announcing that light comes.” In the photo, the parade for the Iturrama neighborhood of Pamplona/Iruña has been made in a peculiar way.
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