Running of the Bulls
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‘Los Sanfermines’Quite possibly the most testosterone-packed festival in existence, Los Sanfermines is a nine-day, July event which as well as being a heady, spirited street party involves the daily release of several bulls along a blockaded pathway through Pamplona, surrounded by an equally excitable crowd of runners. These ‘encierros’ climax with the traditional (and controversial) bull fights. There are many interwoven and contradictory stories explaining this fiesta’s origin, but as the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’, it is romantically associated largely with male coming of age, the conquering of fear and, for those who have had first-hand experience, a rush of violent, life-affirming adrenaline unlike any other.
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