the Pamplona festivities have started

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The tradition is respected in Pamplona, ​​Spain, with the festivals of San Fermin. For eight days, hundreds of reckless people will embark on a high-risk race in the cobbled streets of the city, crossed by bulls.

There is recklessness, but also a bit of madness that seizes the crowd of this street in Pamplona (Spain) when the bulls are released in the city. It is a race of 850 meters where man competes with animals at his own risk. It’s an eventement symbolic of a week of celebration in the Spanish city. On the run, four people were injured and taken to hospital. “People fall, bulls run past you. This is completely crazy“says a tourist.

San Fermin celebrated

The ferias were launched two days ago, in front of a white and red human tide. Then it’s the marching band’s turn to make their way onto the square. Three million people are expected in Pamplona this week, the troith most important holiday in the world. “We are all equal, and we all want to have fun”, says a local resident. For centuries is celebrated San ferminthe patron saint of Navarre in Spain.


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