Urban Navigator’s own Rey Alton at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. July 7th, 2009.
The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish encierro, from the verb encerrar, to lock/shut up, to pen)[1] is a practice that involves running in front of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the nine-day festival of San Fermín in Pamplona,[2] although they are held in towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, and in some cities in Mexico[3] and southern France, during the summer. Unlike bullfights, which are performed by professionals, anyone may participate in an encierro.
The purpose of this event is the transport of the bulls from the off-site corrals where they had spent the night, to the bullring where they would be killed in the evening. Youngsters would jump among them to show off their bravado.
July 7, 2010 at 8:00 am |
Monahan’s “Through the Streets of Pamplona”