Fiestas

Pamplona

Pamplona is famous because of the Fiesta de San Fermín, celebrated every year from July 6th to 14th, with impressive parades of Giants and Bigheads and a procession in honour of St Firmianus on July seventh. Throughout the week there are bullfights, and every morning the fighting bulls are driven through the streets, which have been closed off for the purpose, to the Plaza de Toros, while large numbers of daring young men (and in recent years also women) confront them and race ahead of them through the streets, cheered on by the bystanders.

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