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Viva San Fermin! Viva San Fermin!

filthy light thief — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:48:17 -0800

Yesterday, July 6th, was the first day of San Fermín or Sanfermines in Pamplona, in celebration of Saint Fermín. As is tradition, it starts with a rocket, and turns into a giant, joyous, drunken party in the streets. The events to follow have changed over the centuries, with the addition of Riau Riau in 1914 (actual singing, words and lyrics, Spanish Wiki page with lyrics) in 1914, and most recently, leaving of candles and red bandanas at the Church of San Lorenzo, following the singing of Pobre de Mi. Oh, and there's the running of the bulls (route, photos from yesterday's run, previously). Side notes: Saint Fermín's holy day is actually September 25, and celebrated on October 10, but the celebrations in Pamplona were joined with the traditional summer harvest festival and the celebration of the bulls, because October never had nice weather. SanFermin.com has loads of history and current coverage, and RTVE.es has more recent coverage of Sanfermines in Spanish.

Running of the Not-So-Bright

scblackman — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:41:28 -0800

Bulls on Parade: Rage against the runners. Not for the squeamish (especially the first picture).

Bull. It's all ass to me

troutfishing — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:43:32 -0800

Running of the naked bull-equivalents? (warning - NSFW, maybe - pic of naked female buttocks) Wouldn't this PETA protest, over bullfight cruelty, be more directly analogous to the "Running of the Bulls" if the naked runners were to be chased by a herd of meat eaters, on motor scooters, armed with stun guns?

El Viaje al Infierno

ed\26h — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 03:48:20 -0800

That most peculiar of spectacles the Fiesta de san Fermín (Running of the Bulls) seems to still exist and will be going ahead tomorrow. The event is held in parallel with Feria del Toro (the Bullfighting Fair); the run itself seems to be in the interests of transporting the bulls to the fair while getting them good and angry, confused, scared and weakened in the process. Being that the event is in honor of Saint Fermín, when the San Fermín church strikes 8am, the bulls are released and the runners get underway, trying to avoid them on their just under 1km trip. On arrival at the Plaza del Toro (Bullring) they are herded into corrals and later released so the crowd can watch the matadors kill them in traditional bullfighting fashion [wmv: 380k | 150k | 56k]. Of course, many people are not really so keen on this event; and it seems PETA will be holding one of their typically daft protests. Can't people just throw tomatoes at each other or something?

johnny7 — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:31:22 -0800

Pamplona is on again.Guess who seems to have won round one. Anybody out there been there done that ??