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San Fermín Festival opens with first bull run in Pamplona

Thousands of runners raced through the narrow, cobbled streets of Pamplona on Monday as the first bull run of Spain's San Fermín festival began.

07/07/2025

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Spain's San Fermin kicks off with a chupinazo that looks to Palestine

The nine-day festival is famed for its “encierros,” or bull runs, which, starting on Monday, will see thousands of people sprint to avoid six bulls charging along a winding cobblestoned route to the city’s bullring.

06/07/2025

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15/07/2023

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Activists dressed as dinosaurs protest San Fermin bull-run festival

Two days before the opening of Pamplona's traditional San Fermin festival, animal rights activists launched a protest.

06/07/2022

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Running of the Bulls fills Pamplona streets again after COVID pause

It's the first time the traditional event's been held in northern Spain for three years, but protesters are calling it "prehistoric."

06/07/2022

Spain

Pamplona bull-running festival scrapped for first time in decades

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Spanish city to cancel its iconic – and booze-fuelled – bull runs.

07/07/2020