San Fermin bull-running festival kicks off in Pamplona

The well known San Fermin bull-running festival has taken off in Pamplona with thousands of revelers wearing red and white spraying each other with red wine in the city's main square. It is a nine-day fiesta ant it got underway at midday amidst cries of "Viva San Fermin!" at the city hall. This was followed seconds later by the firing of a firecracker known as the "chupinazo".
This has been reported in thestastesman.com dated 6 July 2016.

The merrymakers, many of them attired in traditional white outfits trimmed with red neckerchiefs and cummerbunds, danced and sprayed each other with cheap wine while red and white confetti rained down on them. The crowds passed large yellow and black inflatable balls over their heads even as others looked down from the balconies.
This was the first time that the person who launched the "chupinazo" and set off the bedlam was chosen by a popular vote that was organist by city hall from a list of six candidates - he is 85-year-old.
The festival is held in honor of the patron saint of Spain's northern Navarra region - San Fermin - and dates back to medieval times. It combines religious processions, all-night partying and hair-raising daily bull runs. Each day hundreds of people race with six huge bulls. They charge along a winding, 846.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city's bull ring, where the animals are killed in an afternoon bullfight.
Till now, fifteen people have been killed in the bull runs since modern day records started to be maintained in 1911.


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