San Nicolas (Pamplona Burg)
San Nicolás (Saint Nicolas in English) is one of the three burgs that were joined in 1423 to form the modern city of Pamplona (Iruña in Basque). The others were Navarrería (Navarrian-town)and San Cernin.
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