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Monument in Pamplona Runners surround the bulls on Estafeta Street. A running of the bulls (Spanish: encierro, from the verb encerrar, 'to corral, to enclose'; Occitan: abrivado, literally 'haste, momentum'; Catalan: bous al carrer 'bulls in the street', or correbous 'bull-runner') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typically six [1] but sometimes ten or more ...
Running of the bulls on Estafeta Street The running of the bulls (Spanish: encierro or los toros de san Fermin [ e ] ) involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-metre (2,707-foot) stretch of narrow streets of a section of Pamplona.
Monument to running of the bulls. Pamplona's bull ring, the Plaza de Toros de Pamplona, was rebuilt in 1923. It seats 19,529 and is the third largest in the world, after the bull rings of Mexico City and Madrid. There are two football teams in Pamplona.
The festivity drives up tourism in Pamplona, a town of a little over 200,000 residents — except during the running of the bulls, when the population swells to more than a million.
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Plaza de Toros de Pamplona in Pamplona Spain during the 2022 San Fermin Festival. Interior of the ring. Plaza de Toros de Pamplona is a bullring in Pamplona, Spain.It is currently used for bullfighting, sporting or cultural events and music concerts.
The encierro: A "running" of the bulls through the streets. Customarily, runners run before the bulls to guide them from the pen to the plaza, where the bulls will await the afternoon's bullfight. The most famous is that of Pamplona in July, although encierros exist in towns throughout Spain. It is a dangerous activity, and care should be taken ...
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