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One of Spain’s most famius festivals, The Fiesta de San Fermín, gets under way from the 6th-14th July to honour Pamplona’s patron saint. Parades, dancing, music, fireworks, bullfights and of course, bullruns take over the streets for almost 10 days. A rocket is fired from the town hall on the 6th July to launch the festival and the festivities begin. An effigy of San Fermín is paraded through the streets the following day to the to the Spanish “jota” songs escorted by hundreds of musicians dressed in white. San Fermín is the patron saint of wine meaning there will be plenty of of “porróns” drunk and plenty of drinking going on. Other parades include the cabezudos (big-headed giants) and the “kilikis” who chase children around the streets. The best-known is of course the morning bull runs, made famous by Ernest Hemingway, where locals and tourists risk their lives to outrun galloping bulls as they charge down the narrow streets towards the bullring.

For more info, check the San Fermin website: http://www.sanfermin.com/2005/portada_new.php?lang=cas

For maps of the routes of the bulls, check: http://www.codesyntax.com/proiektuak/sanfermin_day1.html

For a lowdown on what San Fermin is all about, check: http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/6R27.html

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