The uninterrupted noise day and night of the present-day Sanfermin is something which is of relatively recent origin, perhaps some 40 or 50 years ago. However, in the early decades of the XX century, noise was already becoming a cause of some concern to a certain part of the citizenry of Pamplona, who cast a cold eye on any raucous activities. The Mayor, in 1917, a man by the name of Demetrio Martínez de Azagra, felt it was time to put the rowdy sector in their place and he published an edict of “prohibition” to put things in order. Among other things which he banned were “any singing, shouting or playing of music instruments, or any other noise in the public streets between the time of 12.00 midnight and 5 0’clock in the morning that might aggravate the fitting repose of the neighbors.” What the edict does not state is what things were allowed to take place.