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 It's
more than 400 years that the -thanks to Hemingway- worldwide known San Fermins are celebrated
in Pamplona. People from the city and from everywhere else in the world, meet every year
to enjoy and party this week of fun and bustle, in which processions and dance teams go through the city.
Everything starts on July 6 in the town hall square with the "txupinazo", the firecracker
that announces the feast-days in the middle of an uproar of singings, shouts and hisses:
"People from Pamplona, Viva San Fermin!".
From there on the whole city turns around in an instant and rituals, shows and events
such as the Riau-Riau and the event with most
personality of these celebrations, the "Encierro", take place in the cram-full streets.
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before the beginning of the "Encierro" the young boys entrust themselves to the
image of the patron adorned with scarves and sing three times. Then a firecracker
warns that the bulls are going out and a second one announces that all the bulls are in the street,
giving start to the run of the young boys in front of the bulls - two or three intense
minutes that guarantee the adrenaline for all, for a tour of approximately 800 meters. |
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