Falces
Sign in to savethumb|Running of the bulls in Falces (2009).Falces is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. In Basque the town is called Faltzes. It has a population of around 2500 inhabitants. It is well known for the famous "encierro del pilon", which is a running of the bulls made even more dangerous due to it being run down a narrow road of a steep hill.
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- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Falces
- Demonym
- faltzestar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Erriberagoiena
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 2661
- Area
- 114.89
- Elevation
- 294
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Peralta – Azkoien
- Image
- Falces (vista general).jpg
- Licence plate code
- NA
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- Falces
- postal code
- 31370
- male population
- 1185
- female population
- 1130
- native label
- Faltzes, Hatxarte, Faltziz
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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thumb|Running of the bulls in Falces (2009).Falces is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. In Basque the town is called Faltzes. It has a population of around 2500 inhabitants. It is well known for the famous "encierro del pilon", which is a running of the bulls made even more dangerous due to it being run down a narrow road of a steep hill.
The composer Pedro Iturralde was born here.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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