The festival of San Fermín in the city of Pamplona(Navarre,Spain)is a deeply rooted celebration held annually -
from 12:00 noon,July 06, when the opening of the fiesta is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo (The rocket is launched at 12:00 noon on the 6th of July from a city hall balcony with thousands of people celebrating the act in the city hall square and other locations in Pamplona)to midnight July 14 with the singing of the Pobre de Mí.
While its most famous event is the encierro, or the running of the bulls which happens at 8:00 am from July 7th to July 14th(involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-metre (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona) and
the week long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events.
It is known locally as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre.
Nearly a million people come and watch this festival
from 12:00 noon,July 06, when the opening of the fiesta is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo (The rocket is launched at 12:00 noon on the 6th of July from a city hall balcony with thousands of people celebrating the act in the city hall square and other locations in Pamplona)to midnight July 14 with the singing of the Pobre de Mí.
While its most famous event is the encierro, or the running of the bulls which happens at 8:00 am from July 7th to July 14th(involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-metre (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona) and
the week long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events.
It is known locally as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre.
Nearly a million people come and watch this festival
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