Montejurra in Spanish and Jurramendi in Basque are the names of a mountain in

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

region (

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). Each year, it hosts a

Carlist Carlism (; ; ; ) is a Traditionalism (Spain), Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty, one descended from Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain, Don Carlos, ...

celebration in remembrance of the 1873 Battle of Montejurra during the

Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...

. In 2004, approximately 1,000 persons turned out. Between 1960 and 1971, the Carlists published a monthly magazine named '' Montejurra''. On 9 May 1976, during the

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, far right-wing gunmen supported by the Spanish secret services, killed two people at a ceremony held by the left-wing

Carlist Party The Carlist Party (, , , , ; PC) is a Spanish political party that considers itself as a successor to the historical tradition of Carlism. The party was founded in 1970, although it remained illegal until 1977 following the death of the caudill ...

. This became known as the Montejurra Incidents. The Carlist Party organizes an annual gathering at Montejurra, where Carlists and other leftists honor the dead.

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