The people of Pamplona affectionately refer to the main square as their living room (el cuarto de estar), and it is indeed the epicenter of social life in this Basque city. Historically significant as a venue for military parades, political demonstrations and even bullfights until 1843, locals while away the hours in its cafés, the most famous of which is Café Iruña, where Ernest Hemingway supposedly spent his time writing the iconic The Sun Also Rises, in which much of Pamplona’s cityscape is immortalized in prose.