Lugares de memoria liberal de la última guerra carlista en Navarra. Su presencia en el callejero de Pamplona (1873-1937)

Abstract

During the last Carlist war in Navarre, the supporters of the legimist Pretender found great resistance in the captur e of several towns, even though some of them were almost undefendend. This concerns the villages of Cirauqui and Estella, which were conquered in 1873, and Pamplona, which was under siege for five months between 1874 and 1875. In those three spots the decisive perfomance of their defenders and the high price they had to pay for it (murders included in Cirauqui and the big mortality increase because of epidemics in Pamplona) became of great symbolism for the Navarre liberals. Hence their determination, which failed in the long term, to perpetuate the remembrance of those events by changing the names of some central streets of Pamplona and building a «policy of remembrance» with the new names («Mártires de Cirauqui», «Héroes de Estella» and «Dos de Febrero»). Such decision prompted the reaction of the carlists who succeeded in returning their traditional names to the streets between 1900 and 1903 and finally in 1937.