Festival Of St. Fermin In Spain
Spain starts celebration of Saint Fermin (San Fermin Festival), the main effect of which traditionally takes place in the city of Pamplona, famous for its «enserro» - runs the bulls through the streets of the city. The ceremony of the festival «Sanfermines» (Los Sanfermines) opened on Monday at noon with a traditional powder rockets to launch the City Hall balcony.
A day before, in Pamplona. Again, by tradition, organization and movement of animals PETA advocates and Animas Naturalis had a bloody campaign against the entertainment in the days of the festival of St. Fermin. Dozens of people on the central square of the city poured paint on their bodies like blood. The aim of the activists - to make the ban corrida and street run with bulls.
PETA Protest against traditional race and corrida bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
According to the participants of the protest, all these violent entertainment «enserro» and «Corrida» - the remnants of medieval barbarism.
Meanwhile, on 5 July in Barcelona was scheduled corrida, the traditional season which begins in March and ends in October.
In the Spanish city of Pamplona started to celebrate the feast of St. Fermin. Photos: Reuters, AFP, AP.
The festival, which last week, provides, in addition to the traditional corrida enserros and many other events - concerts, contests, children's matinee, and so on.
