Not long to go ...
Not long to go ...
For the first time ever, Fundación Mencos shows its collection of San Fermin-related objects dating from the XIX century in Tafalla, each weekend during the summer.
An exhibition of historical objects centring on the San Fermin fiestas not held in Pamplona. Perhaps that should be the headline. The Mencos family from Tafalla has lovingly collected and archived different objects related to the San Fermin fiestas for the last four generations: posters, programmes, photos... Fundación Mencos soon realised that all this material was worthy of an exhibition in its own right and so it has opened the doors of the family Palace, the seat of the Mencos, at number 1 Rincón de los Mencos, Tafalla.
The exhibition was opened at the beginning of July by Joaquín Mencos Doussinageue, Marquis of the Royal Defence, who explained that his father, Tiburcio Mencos y Bernaldo de Quiros, was the real driving force behind the collection as we now know it. The exhibition is arranged by period in display cabinets covering the fiestas from the 1880s to the present day. As Fernando Hualde points out in Diario de Noticias, 1881 was the year in which Pamplona City Council published the first hand programme, with a full-colour, artistic cover. Until then, there had only been a poster which was posted in town halls throughout Navarre, neighbouring communities and the south of France.
To see the exhibition in Tafalla, weekends and bank holidays throughout the summer, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm, in the Palace of the Mencos.
