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wine tasting evening, dinner is on your own. Perhaps you’ll
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the eventual seat of the Basque parliament,
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(which the Basque government carefully
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Guernica nonstop for more than three
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hours, laying waste to almost all of it—a
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tour. The city’s commercial success across
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on Basque Country history to enrich our
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understanding.
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level still clings to tradition. Here, you can
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wine was once just a homemade favorite and
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After an included lunch, we depart to
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Pamplona, where we’ll have time to settle into
canning or preserves: an annual ritual from
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restaurant.
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Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
together sought and won Designation of
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for ourselves. Plus, in our small group, we’ll
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