San Fermín
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annual festival in the city of Pamplona (Navarre, Spain)
Key facts
- Nickname
- Sanfermín, Sanfermines, Sanferminak
- Begins
- 6 July; 12:00 (CEST)
- Ends
- 15 July; 00:00 (CEST)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Locations
- Pamplona , Navarre , Spain
- Activity
- Running of the bulls
- Patron
- Saint Fermín
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Encyclopedic overview
The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, traditional celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The celebrations start at noon on 6 July and continue until midnight on 14 July. A firework (chupinazo) starts the celebrations and the popular song Pobre de mí [es] is sung at the end.
The most known event of the festival is the running of the bulls, which begins at 8 am each day on 7–14 July, but the festival involves many other traditional and folkloric events. It is known locally as Sanfermines in Spanish and Sanferminak in Basque and is held in honour of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “San Fermín” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.