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Spain has always been famous as an incredible tourist spot. In Northern Spain, San Fermin is a festival of Spain and is held every year on July 6 at Pamplona, a small city in Navarre. This year San Fermin festival of 2009 has started on July 6 at afternoon and there was huge crowd around Town Hall to celebrate this festival. During this festival there are numbers of activities and events to enjoy and the closing ceremony will be on July 14.

The Pamplona party started with the firing of a small rocket called the “chupinazo” and then it lead to a huge celebration with live music, champagne and plenty of music. Most of the people who take part in this festival wears traditional white pants and shirts with a red neckerchief tied at the front. All of them were covered with abundant amount of sparkling wine, sangria and other drinks. Residents poured buckets of water over the crowd from their balconies.

The San Fermin festival is known around the world for its running of the bulls. The first bull running of this year is on Tuesday. Each run will take place at 8:00 a.m. till July 14. After keeping record since 1924, approximately 13 people had been killed in the running of the bulls and the last victim was 22 years old, an American who gored to death in 1995.

The photos of the San Fermin festival are so wonderful that you will think that you should also go there and celebrate this festival and enjoy it. See some photos of the festival here:

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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.

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