Popular festivals are celebrated with sokamuturra, dances, pilgrimages, bicycle races, etc., in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe on September 8. Traditional alarde, pelota matches, etc. Local livestock contest also in September.
The alarde was a common celebration during the foral period, constituting a parade that closed the annual maneuvers of the municipal militias established under the fuero. The one in Fuenterrabía was reinstated symbolically to commemorate the siege of 1638 and as a votive act of gratitude to the Virgin of Guadalupe. In the traditional Alarde, 16 companies organized by neighborhood parade, each led by a captain and several officers. The march is opened by a company of archers, bowmen, or axemen, wearing leather aprons, tall sheepskin morions, long beards, and carrying various tools such as saws and axes. Next comes the general with his staff and a cavalry squadron, followed by the rest of the companies, the artillery, and the municipal and parish corps. The traditional Alarde is essentially male. Women are only represented by one cantinière per company. She carries no weapons but a small barrel, which contradicts historical reality (Soraluce, Henao) and reduces her to a purely auxiliary and decorative role. The procession departs from the Plaza de Armas, travels along Calle Mayor, and dissolves in Saindua to regroup again at Guadalupe. In the afternoon, it leaves Saindua and ends at the Plaza de Armas. Salvos and music playing the Titibiliti are obligatory elements. The tamborrada of the alarde was incorporated in 1920. The mixed Alarde created at the end of the 20th century has edly been disrupted by traditionalists.
The procession in this city is famous and attracts a large number of tourists. The Passion play was authorized by the Bishop of Pamplona in 1602.