Plaza of the castle, in Pamplona, during the Sanfermines

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Plaza of the castle, in Pamplona, during the Sanfermines

Sanfermines are a feast in honor to saint Fermín that is celebrated annually in the city hispanizes of Pamplona.The feasts begin with the throw of the |chupinazo| ( rocket ) from the balcony of the town hall to the midday of 6th July and finish at 24 of 14th July with the " poor of myself ", a song of farewell.One of the the Sanfermines more famous activities are the locking up, that consists in a run of a few 800 m in front of the bullfightings it culminates in the bullring. The locking ups take place all days between the 7 and on 14th July and begin at eight, with an average duration of between two and three minutes.The Sanfermines have an origin that it is remounts several centuries, although your worldwide fame is a recent phenomenon. The American writer Ernest Hemingway went one of the that contributed to propagate them by means of your feast book. This considerate as one of the better celebrations of the world, near the carnivals of Rio of Janeiro and the fair of the Munich beer.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanfermines

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