With a feminist shout of “Pamplonesas, viva Sanfermin”, the Pamplona city hall councilor, Idoia Saralegui, set off nine days of fiestas at the inaugural “chupinazo” ceremony in front of thousands of people who crowded the City Hall square and surrounding streets. Dark clouds threatened rain but it did not materialize and the ceremony went off with incident.

The fuse of the fireworks rocket failed to light at the first... [more]
 

This year the Sanfermin.com web page will offer, as well as the up-to-the-minute reports on the running of the bulls, a complete photographic gallery from 25 of the most outstanding photographers who come each year for the fiestas. The images – taken over different years and with distinctive approaches, both in color and in black and white – will include shots... [more]