"all over the world go to Spain to experience one of these festivals. One of the most famous is San Fermín, in Pamplona. While its most famous event is the ""encierro"", or the running of the bulls, which happens at 8:00 am from 7 to 14 July, the week-long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events. Its events were central to the plot of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, which brought it to the general attention of English-speaking people. As a result, it has become one of the most internationally renowned fiestas in Spain, with over 1,000,000"
"has since grown in popularity. It is based on the running of the bulls in Pamplona and was originally called the “Pamplonada”. The first run had seven bulls which has since grown in number to about twenty five. The running of the bulls is more dangerous as the animals are released into the streets from two directions. This event is the most famous of its kind in Mexico. During the month there are also donkey and car races, a children’s version of running with the bulls, a parade with floats, a feria queen, a paella festival, cockfights, a chess tournament"
"San Fermín The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, historically rooted celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarra , Spain. The celebrations start at noon on the sixth of July, when the party starts with the setting off the pyrotechnic ""chupinazo"", and continue until midnight, on the fourteenth of July, with the singing of the ""Pobre de Mí"". While its most famous event is the encierro, or the running of the bulls, at 8:00 AM from July 7 to 14, the festival involves many other traditional and folkloric events. It is known locally as ""Sanfermines"" and is"
"La Manada sexual abuse case La Manada (wolfpack) case is a case of sexual violence that happened in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain on July 7, 2016 during San Fermín celebrations. A group of five men sexually abused an 18-year-old woman from Madrid in a building hallway at the city centre of Pamplona. The victim accused them of rape. The case had strong media coverage because there were video recordings of the events and the commentaries on social networks. The accused from Seville, including a member of the Civil Guard and another of the Spanish Army, were arrested and tried. The judgment"
"of the Bulls in Pamplona, the Fallas in Valencia, the Tomatina in Buñol, Valencia and the Fiestas del Pilar in Zaragoza. The Carnival is also popular all over Spain, but especially in the Canary Islands (Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Cadiz. There are renowned movie festivals all over the country, the most recognizable being the famous San Sebastián International Film Festival, the Málaga Spanish Film Festival, the Seminci (Valladolid International Film Festival), the Mostra de Valencia and the Sitges Film Festival, the world's foremost international festival specializing in fantasy and horror movies. Music festivals includes the Sónar, the"
"Running of the Nudes The Running of the Nudes, like the well-known Running of the Bulls, takes place in Pamplona, Spain. The Running of the Nudes occurs two days before the Running of the Bulls, just before the start of the nine-day festival of San Fermín. The event was created in 2002 and is supported by animal welfare groups, including PETA, who object to the Running of the Bulls, claiming that the event is cruel and glorifies bullfighting, which the groups oppose. In the Running of the Nudes, naked humans, many wearing only plastic horns and red scarves, follow the"
"and the fairgrounds in the San Antonio Xahuento neighborhood. The first of the main events is a contest of ""castillos"" (lit. castles). Castillos are frames made of wood, reed and paper to which various fireworks are affixed. These fireworks are set off to make images and/or parts of the castillo structure move. The castillos created for this event measure between twenty five and thirty meters, requiring about fifteen days to build. When set off, they take between twenty and thirty minutes to go through all of their features. The second, oldest and most important event is the ""pamplonada."" Named after"
"afternoon and tickets are hard to find. Every night at 23:00, a firework spectacle is held at the citadel park. Fireworks spectacles have been known to occur in Sanfermin as far back as 1595. Since the year 2000 an international fireworks contest is held. Thousands of people watch them seated on the grass around the citadel. San Fermín The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, historically rooted celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarra , Spain. The celebrations start at noon on the sixth of July, when the party starts with the setting off the pyrotechnic ""chupinazo"","
"rested at Thorney, Cambridgeshire. These occurrences point towards possible veneration of Firmin in Anglo-Saxon England. The San Fermin festival is celebrated in Pamplona, in the region of Navarre, every year from the 6th to the 14th of July. It has become internationally known because of the running of the bulls, where the bulls are led through the streets of the old quarter as far as the bull ring by runners. The fiestas are celebrated in honor of San Fermin, patron saint of Navarra, although the religious aspect would seem to have taken on a secondary role over the last number"
"cattle) are typically used in such events. The most famous bull-run – what a capitalized ""the Running of the Bulls"" most often refers to in English – is the held in Pamplona during the nine-day festival of Sanfermines in honour of Saint Fermin. It has become a major global tourism event, today very different from the traditional, local festival. More traditional summer bull-runs are held in other places such as towns and villages across Spain and Portugal, in some cities in Mexico, and in the Occitan (Camargue) region of southern France. Bull-running was formerly also practiced in rural England, most"
"to take place at the same time as the fair, when Pamplona's weather is better. This is considered to be the beginning of the Sanfermines. During medieval times acts included an opening speech, musicians, tournaments, theatre, bullfights, dances or even fireworks. Bullrunning appears in 17th and 18th century chronicles together with the presence of foreigners and the first concerns about the excessive drinking and dissolute behavior during the event. Finally, the Parade of Giants was created in the mid-19th century. The first official bullring was constructed in 1844. The worldwide fame of the modern festival, and the great number of"
"the controversial tradition. Since 2014, the Esquire Channel has broadcast the running of the bulls as a show in the US, with both live commentary and then a recorded 'round up' later in the day by NBCSN commentators the Men in Blazers, including interviews with noted participants such as Madrid-born runner David Ubeda, former US Special Forces soldier turned filmmaker Dennis Clancey, the historic New York-born runner Joe Distler, and former British bullfighter and author Alexander Fiske-Harrison. In 2014, the eBook guide, ""Fiesta: How To Survive The Bulls Of Pamplona"", caused headlines around the world when one of the contributors"
"a photo. The encierro of Pamplona has been depicted many times in literature, television or advertising, but became known worldwide partly because of the descriptions of Ernest Hemingway in books ""The Sun Also Rises"" and ""Death in the Afternoon"". The cinema pioneer Louis Lumière filmed the run in 1899. The event is the basis for a chapter in James Michener's 1971 novel ""The Drifters"". The run is depicted in the 1991 Billy Crystal film ""City Slickers"", where the character ""Mitch"" (Crystal) is gored (non-fatally) from behind by a bull during a vacation with the other main characters. The run appears"
"Reyes and the ancient castle of Cuéllar in Old Castile, which hosts the oldest ""encierro"", 'bull-run' in Spain, and where he was awarded a prize for writing about the encierros in 2013. He has written and spoken on the subject widely, including for Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel and for the Esquire Network's coverage of the Pamplona running of the bulls. In Spring 2014 Fiske-Harrison co-authored and edited the book ""The Bulls Of Pamplona"". It included a foreword from the Mayor of Pamplona and contributions from famous living ""aficionados"" of the festival of San Fermín, including John Hemingway, grandson"
"a fireworks display at the city hall. This closing ceremony tradition started out in the 1920s. The running of the bulls (In Spanish ""encierro or los toros de san Fermin"") involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-meter (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. The run ends in the Pamplona's bullring taking a mean time of around 3 minutes where the bulls would be held until the afternoon's bullfight when they would be killed. Bullruns are held between July 7 and 14"
"It seats 19,529 and is the third largest in the world, after the bull rings of Mexico and Madrid. Other sports with some of the top clubs in Pamplona include handball (Portland San Antonio, Europe's championship winner 2001), futsal (MRA Xota) and water polo (Larraina). Pamplona's favourite son may well be Miguel Indurain, five time Tour de France winner. Former Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia is also from Pamplona. The Movistar Team, the direct descendent of Indurain's Banesto team, is based in Egüés, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Pamplona. Pamplona is also home to the headquarters of The International"
"was gored by a bull soon after its publication. (See Further Reading section below.) Although the most famous running of the bulls is that of San Fermín, they are held in towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, and in some cities in southern France during the summer. Examples are the bull run of San Sebastián de los Reyes, near Madrid, at the end of August which is the most popular of Spain after Pamplona, the bull run of Cuéllar, considered as the oldest of Spain since there are documents of its existence dating back to 1215, the Highland Capeias of"
"Hotel La Perla Hotel La Perla (Spanish: Gran Hotel La Perla) is the most famous hotel in Pamplona, Spain. It is located in the Plaza del Castillo (Castle Square), with one side facing Estafeta Street, one of the main routes in the Running of the Bulls. The balconies of the hotel are among the most coveted sites from which to view the event. Opened on June 5 of 1881, it is the city's oldest hotel, and the oldest still in operation in the country. It was originally named ""Fonda [a] La Perla"". The original owners were Miguel and Teresa Graz."
"famously at Stamford until 1837. The origin of this event comes from the need to transport the bulls from the fields outside the city, where they were bred, to the bullring, where they would be killed in the evening. During this ""run"", youngsters would jump among them to show off their bravado. In Pamplona and other places, the six bulls in the event are still those that will feature in the afternoon bullfight of the same day. Spanish tradition holds that bull-running began in northeastern Spain in the early 14th century. While transporting cattle in order to sell them at"
"By 2013 he had acquired the nickname ""Buffalo Bill Hillmann"", and in 2014 he co-authored the book ""Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona"" with Alexander Fiske-Harrison and John Hemingway. On July 9, 2014, a bull gored Hillmann twice in the thigh at the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, but he returned to bull-running in Pamplona in 2015, and published his memoir, ""Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls"". In the summer of 2016 he ran with the bulls more than 200 times in towns throughout Spain. He has stated that his favorite running of the bulls is"
"Caballucos del Diablu The Caballucos del Diablu (Cantabrian for ""(little) horses of the devil"") is a myth from the Cantabrian mythology, a region of northern Spain. On St John's Eve (June 23), when the people make bonfires to purify their souls, giant dragonflies appear amongst the ashes. These dragonflies -the Caballucos- are the souls of sinners, and they come to release their fury over a year's worth of sins with fire and terrifying screams. The Caballucos del Diablu appear in a variety of colors, each one being the soul of a different sinner. The red horse was a man who"
"proved that ""he attempted to kill her with a knife and by strangulation while she struggled for life, with their young children watching, but eventually giving up""; the sentence cited the man's mental state as a mitigating factor. Amnesty International has denounced the hurdles found by the victims of gender aggression in the Spanish justice system. La Manada sexual abuse case La Manada (wolfpack) case is a case of sexual violence that happened in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain on July 7, 2016 during San Fermín celebrations. A group of five men sexually abused an 18-year-old woman from Madrid in a building"
"Traditions of Catalonia There are quite a number of festivals and traditions in Catalonia (Spain). While most are of ancient origin, certain traditions are of relatively recent introduction. There are also some that are common to the whole Catalan society, but others are relevant only to a particular location. Generally, locals welcome outsiders to share with them in their celebration. The ""correfocs"", in which ""devils"" play with fire close the onlookers, is one of the most striking of the Catalan festive events. The devils are not considered the incarnation of evil; they are sprightly and festive characters, dancing to the"
"an hour, ""devils"" burn their ""carretilles"" (carts), jumping around ceaselessly, while a large ""sceptre of Lucifer"" and the ""pitchfork of the ""Diablessa"" (she-devil)"" shoot fire-jets and other pyrotechnics. Every year, the ""carretillada"" is a bit different, because the 'colla' (group) does not give up novelties that are added each year to add to the spectacle. Correfoc Correfocs (); literally in English ""fire-runs"") are among the most striking features present in Catalan festivals. In the ""correfoc"", a group of individuals will dress as devils and light fireworks – fixed on devil's pitchforks or strung above the route. Dancing to the sound"
"especially in Toledo and Sevilla. The darkness, the torches, and the speed of the men with covered faces create a medieval atmosphere, frightening and exciting. It was believed that the devil was loose in the streets of the town on that night, frightening all, especially the children. Originally, only men could participate but today that has changed. Superstitions like the presence of a werewolf and a headless mule are also manifested in this popular festival. Tourists come from far and wide to witness the spectacle. In 2006, according to the Diario da Manhã a newspaper from Goiânia, 10,000 tourists came"
"to Barcelona of King Alfonso V of Aragon from Naples. Also in Cervera, the devils participate for the festivities of Corpus Christi in 1426. In Barcelona, on the occasion of the arrival of the duke of Calabria in September 1467, parties were organized and devils were present. In the beginnings of the 15th century, the processions of Corpus Christi in Barcelona were closed with a short play, formed by one squad of angels and another of devils. Ball de diables The ball de diables (; Catalan for ""Devils' dance"") is a dance tradition originating from Catalonia, though it is also"
"the market, men would try to speed the process by hurrying their cattle using tactics of fear and excitement. After years of this practice, the transportation and hurrying began to turn into a competition, as young adults would attempt to race in front of the bulls and make it safely to their pens without being overtaken. When the popularity of this practice increased and was noticed more and more by the expanding population of Spanish cities, a tradition was created and stands to this day. The Pamplona encierro is the most popular in Spain and has been broadcast live by"
"Competition biennially since 1991, and the annual Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, the most important Spanish documentary film festival, since 2004. One of the more popular cultural expressions include the ""Gigantes"", which come out during festivals many times during the year. These are approximately 30-foot wooden statues that have a person inside that make them dance around the city. They represent each of the main continents of the world, including Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. After the 2015 municipal elections, there are 27 seats in Pamplona's municipal council: ten of Navarrese People's Union (""Unión del Pueblo Navarro""),"
"Cascamorras The Fiesta de Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6. The two towns fight for possession of a statue of the Virgen de la Piedad. In 2006, the festival was declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest of Spain. Guadix and Baza are two Andalusian towns in the Province of Granada, neighbors, sisters and rivals. Cascamorras, a worker from Guadix, found a buried sacred image of the Virgen de la Piedad (Our Lady of Mercy) while working on the land of Baza."
"Cascamorras The Fiesta de Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6. The two towns fight for possession of a statue of the Virgen de la Piedad. In 2006, the festival was declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest of Spain. Guadix and Baza are two Andalusian towns in the Province of Granada, neighbors, sisters and rivals. Cascamorras, a worker from Guadix, found a buried sacred image of the Virgen de la Piedad (Our Lady of Mercy) while working on the land of Baza."
"from the Pyrenees. The roots of Nowhere track back 2002, when UK burners started to organize a decompression party in London. Nowhere began in 2004, in Bardenas Reales, and has roughly doubled in size each year, to the current size of around 4000 participants in 2018. Nowhere has been held in several different locations in the Navarra and Aragon regions of Spain. The current location is near Sariñena in the Province of Huesca. In 2004, at the first Nowhere event, there was a public board to suggest names for the event. Out of it came the formalization of the name"
"ball games has its unique offspring among Basque ball games, known generically as pilota (Spanish: ""pelota""). Some variants have been exported to the United States and Macau under the name of Jai Alai. There are several sports derived by Basques from everyday chores. Heavy workers were challenged and bets placed upon them. Examples are: The encierro (bull run) in Pamplona's fiestas ""Sanfermines"" started as a transport of bulls to the ring. These encierros, as well as other bull and bullock related activities are not exclusive to Pamplona but are traditional in many towns and villages of the Basque country. There"
"Lanjarón Lanjarón is a municipality and town in the Alpujarras area in the province of Granada in Andalusia, Spain. Lanjarón has a ruined castle and chalybeate baths. This spa town is most famous, however, for its eponymous bottled water company, the first ever established in Spain, whose products are sold throughout the country. On the 23rd of June, the town of Lanjaron celebrates its annual fiesta of San Juan, known as the biggest water fight in Spain. On the night of the 23rd, people from far and wide come to celebrate the midnight madness. For one hour, starting at midnight"