Editing Pamplona (section)

==Urbanism==
Like many other European cities, it is very easy to distinguish what is so called the "old city" and the new neighborhoods. The oldest part of the old city is Navarrería, which corresponds with the Roman city. During the 12th century, the boroughs of Saint Sernin (San Saturnino or San Cernin) and Saint Nicholas (San Nicolás) were established. [[Charles III of Navarre|Charles III]] decreed the unification of the three places under a single municipality in 1423.
[[File:3284FOTOTH9.jpg|thumb|left|Old city of Pamplona]]

The city did not expand until the late 19th century. In 1888, a modest modification of the star fort was allowed, but it just permitted the building of six blocks. It was called the I Ensanche (literally, "first widening"). The southern walls were destroyed in 1915 and the II Ensanche ("second widening") was planned. Its plan followed the [[Grid plan|grid pattern]] model designed by [[Ildefons Cerdà]] for [[Eixample|Barcelona]]. Its blocks were built between the 1920s and the 1950s. The prevailing housing model is [[apartment buildings]] of five to eight floors.

After the [[Spanish Civil War|Civil War]], three new zones of Pamplona began to grow: Rochapea, Milagrosa, and Chantrea. Only the last one was a planned neighborhood, the other two being disorderly growths. In 1957, the municipality designed the first general ordination plan for the city, which established the guidelines for further urban development. According to this, during the 1960s and 1970s saw the creation of new neighborhoods like San Juan, Iturrama, San Jorge, Etxabakoitz, and Orvina.

[[File:Vista Plaza del Castillo Pamplona.jpg|thumb|Plaza del Castillo with [[Hotel La Perla]] visible (to the left of the tree)]]

The urban expansion of Pamplona exceeded the administrative limits of the city and involved municipalities like [[Barañáin]], [[Burlada]], [[Villava]], [[Ansoain]], [[Berriozar]], [[Noain (Valle de Elorz) - Noain (Elortzibar)|Noain]] or [[Huarte - Uharte|Huarte]] in a larger metropolitan area. During the 1980s and 1990s, new neighborhoods were born: Azpilagaña, Mendebaldea, and Mendillorri. Rochapea was profoundly renewed. The urban development of those new neighborhoods is very similar to other Spanish provincial capitals that experienced a similar aggressive economic development during the sixties and seventies. The urbanization of Pamplona, being from anterior designs, is not constrained by the grid plan. The apartment buildings are taller: never less than five floors and many taller than ten. Industry, which previously coexisted with housing, was moved to industrial parks (the oldest and the only one within municipal limits of Pamplona is Landaben).

In recent years, [[single-family house]]-predominant neighborhoods have grown in the metropolitan area: [[Zizur Mayor]], [[Cizur|Cizur Menor]], [[Aranguren|Mutilva Alta]], [[Aranguren|Mutilva Baja]], [[Egüés|Olaz]], [[Galar, Spain|Esquíroz]], [[Berrioplano|{{Not a typo|Artica}}]], [[Egüés|Alzuza]], Artiberri and Sarriguren. And new districts emerged like Buztintxuri, Lezkairu and Ripagaina, the latter two being still under construction. These new suburbs have more room for green areas and recreative parks.