This was one of Ernest Hemingway's favorite areas, its culture, sites and events, such as the Running of the Bulls, featured in The Sun Also Rises. South of France, east of the Pai?s Vasco and at the historical center of Castilian Spain sits Navarra, among the smallest of the country's autonomous communities but as dynamic in people, politics and heritage as they come. Basque people settled the region long before a succession of Roman, Gothic, Moorish and Frankish invaders gave way to the Spanish Catholics. As a result, a strong sense of Basque culture and the nationalism that comes with it are