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In pictures: Bull running festival in Spain
The Running of the Bulls is a race with fighting bulls which is held each morning in Pamplona during fiestas, between the 7th and the 14th of July.
Participants and Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls run at Estafeta curve during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 10, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls turn Estafeta curve during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 10, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
A participant jumps over a wild cow at the Pamplona’s bullring during a show after the third ‘encierro’ (bull-run) of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 9, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Participants run ahead of Puerto de San Lorenzo’s fighting bulls during the third bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 9, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Participants run ahead of Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 10, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Participants run ahead of Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 10, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Photographers take pictures of a Puerto de San Lorenzo’s fighting bull running behind a participant during the third bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 9, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Puerto de San Lorenzo’s fighting bulls arrive at the bullring during the third bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 9, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
Participants run ahead of Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls during the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 10, 2017. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
