Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!

 

It is a bit of a bleak day today so with no pleasing restaurants to visit lets talk about Navarre.  Until 1841 it was a kingdom - Kenneth Branagh ruled it in Loves Labour's Lost.   The Catholic monarchs ended any hope of its independence, with a little help from Henry VIII. Today it is home to 670,000 people, just over half of which live in the greater Pamplona area.  





People always seem to be on the move.  Between 1900 and 1950: In Navarre, emigration was greater than immigration, especially in the rural areas in the north of the community. The main destination countries for Navarrese emigrants were Argentina , Colombia , Venezuela , Chile and Mexico , until 1950. From 1950 onwards, they began to go to Western European countries such as France , Belgium , Switzerland or West Germany .




In the 1960s, Navarre became a receiving region for immigrants arriving from other Spanish regions, especially the Basque Country , Andalusia , Castile and León , La Rioja and Extremadura , attracted by the new jobs created by industrialization.  





Navarre has its own regionalist political party - an Economic liberal conservative and nostalgic grouping called Navarr Sum.  In 2023 they won the largest share of the vote in regional elections, a bit down from 2019.  The Socialists came second and Basque Nationalists third.  



If you want to decide if Navarre is part of the Basque region please feel free.  Others have and come up with different views. Castillian is the mother tongue of 81.9% of the population, Basque serves that function for 5.7%, 3.8% have both languages and 6.1% have another language as their mother tongue. The number of people who know Basque is increasing in Navarre. ​ In 2011, 13.6% of the Navarrese population considered themselves Basque-speaking and another 14.5% almost Basque-speaking.



Anyway, let us toddle on










































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