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 Pamplona:
Running the Bulls, Bars, and Barrios in Fiesta De San Fermin
In a city centuries old, an unbridled explosion of merriment
takes centre stage for nine days each year. Danger and death
dance in the streets each morning as six fighting bulls race
toward the bullring where they will die in the afternoon. Champagne
corks skyrocket as revellers celebrate a saint martyred hundreds
of years ago. Bands play in the cobblestone streets all night,
and barrooms swell with adventurous travellers from all corners
of the globe. Pamplona's Fiesta has been described as the best
week you can live on the planet, and this book takes you to
the epicentre of the grand festival in Spain's Basque country.
Tour
Pamplona.
 Running
with the Bulls: Fiestas, Corridas, Toreros, and an American's
Adventure in Pamplona
In Running With The Bulls, Gary Gray grabs hold of us and takes
us on a grand and intimate tour of one of Spain's most passionate
and historic cities. In 1926, Ernest Hemingway brought the frenetic
charge of Pamplona's Festival of San Fermin to life in The Sun
Also Rises. Today, that same energy still exists for the hundreds
of thousands of people who descend upon the city every July.
At the centre of the celebration is the famous encierro, the
running of the bulls. In this traditional event, thousands of
thrill-seeking men and women race through the narrow streets
of Pamplona just steps ahead of half a dozen angry bulls, each
bred to kill and brandishing razor-sharp horns that can impale
a victim in a split second. The goal of the corredores, the
runners, is to usher the bulls into the Plaza de Toros where,
that afternoon, each will meet his death under the sword of
a torero, or bullfighter. Gray, has participated in the encierro
every year for over two decades. He has befriended dozens of
Pamplonicas, many of whom are closely tied to the inner circle
of the Festival. From this unique perspective, he leads us on
several crazed sprints to the Plaza de Toros.
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