The data of the bullranches for the running of the bulls of Sanfermin 2023

The Casa de Misericordia has communicated through the bullfighting commission that it has completed the contracting of the farms for the next one and has announced the farms that will participate in the 2023 Bull Fair . Therefore, we already know the herds for the running of the bulls of San Fermín 2023 . The farms that will star in the running of the bulls and bullfights next year are: Miura , from Lora del Río, Seville; Victoriano del Río , from Guadalix de la Sierra, Madrid; Heirs of José Cebada Gago , from Medina Sidonia, Cádiz; Jandilla , from Merida, Badajoz; José Escolar Gil, from Lanzahíta, Ávila; Nunez del Cuvillo, from Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz; Fuente Ymbro , from San José del Valle, Cádiz; and La Palmosilla , from Tarifa, Cádiz.

In addition, for the corrida de rejones, burels from El Capea-Carmen Lorenzo, from San Pelayo de la Guareña, Salamanca; and for the bullfight, cattle from the Pincha Ganadería , from Lodosa, Navarra.

The most outstanding data of the confinement to be able to compare.

  • The fastest running of the bulls in the modern history of the Sanfermines was held on 07/14/2015 with 2’05” with Miura bulls.
  • The running of the bulls with the most gorings was held on 07/12/2004 with jandilla bulls and eight registered gorings.
  • In the last four editions of Sanfermin, 58,136 people have run the running of the bulls -according to the Pamplona City Council-. 24 people have been gored, representing 0.041% of the total.
  • The slowest running of the bulls in San Fermín was held on 07/09/2002, with bulls from Santiago Domecq and lasted up to 11’57”.
  • Cebada Gago is the 1st cattle farm that has left the most gorings (59 in total).
  • Miura is the 1st farm that has left the most injuries due to trauma (199 in total).
  • Miura is the 1st cattle farm that caused the most injuries (219 in total).
  • El Callejón is the section with the most gorings: 67 , (22.48% of the total).
  • The Town Hall is the section with fewer gorings: 24, (8.05% of the total).
  • Cebada Gago is the farm that has left the most gorings in Santo Domingo (11 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in City Hall (4 in 47 bull runs).
  • Jandilla is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in Mercaderes (6 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the farm that has left the most gorings in Estafeta (15 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in Telefónica (8 in 47 confinements).
  • Cebada Gago is the ranch that has left the most gorings in Callejón (16 in 47 confinements).

The data of the bullranches for the running of the bulls of San Fermín 2023

The bulls that will participate in the Sanfermin 2023 festivities have starred in the last two editions of the festivities and already leave us data that we want to share in case it allows us to obtain any clues that will serve as an advantage for those who decide to accompany the burels through the streets of Pamplona on next years. If you want to see the running of the bulls, you already have the balconies available to watch the running of the bulls in the Sanfermin.com online store .

MIURA

Image by Natalia Gomez. Sanfermin 2022
  • Miura has participated in 40 running of the bulls in the modern history of Sanfermin. Five sanfermines could be held in a row to match the number of Miura bulls that have roamed the streets of Pamplona.
  • Miura ‘s last race in Pamplona was completed in 2’12?, marking the 4th fastest running of the bulls in the history of Sanfermin . In addition, it was the fastest running of the bulls held on a Thursday.
  • In 40 participations, Miura has left 20 gorings (0.5 per confinement).
  • Miura is the 5th stud farm that has left the most gorings (20 in total).
  • The Miura bulls have left gorings in 12 of 40 races.
  • Miura is the 1st cattle farm that has left the most injuries due to trauma (199 in total).
  • Miura is the 1st cattle farm that causes the most injuries (219 in total).
  • Of Miura’s 40 running of the bulls in Sanfermín, this was the 4th with the shortest duration (2’12»).
  • Mercaderes is the section where Miura has left the most gorings (5 in 40 running of the bulls).
  • Ayuntamiento is the section where Miura has left the least gored (1 in 40 running of the bulls).

VICTORIANO DEL RÍO

Image by Monica Sarasa. Sanfermin 2022
  • 11 Participations in the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
  • The Victoriano del Río bulls ran through the streets of Pamplona at Sanfermin in 2022 in 2’13¨, equaling the record for this ranch established in the running of the bulls on 07/12/2016 .
  • The slowest running of the bulls in Victoriano del Río was recorded on 07/09/2014 (3’23») .
  • The Victoriano del Río bulls are not among the ten fastest Sanfermin herds, but they are in 12th position , precisely with two races at 2’13?.
  • In 11 participations, Victoriano del Rio has left 5 gorings (0.45 per confinement) and is in thirteenth position in the ranking of the most dangerous herds based on recorded gorings.
  • Victoriano del Rio is the 18th farm with the highest average number of injuries due to trauma (4.64 per confinement).
  • Telefónica is the section where Victoriano del Rio has left the most gorings (3 in 11 running of the bulls).

CEBADA GAGO

Image by Javier Mutilva.
  • Cebada Gago has participated in 32 running of the bulls in San Fermín.
  • The Cebada Gago bulls completed their last running of the bulls on July 11, 2022 in 3’06? and left three three gorings .
  • In 32 participations Cebada Gago has left 59 gored (1.84 per confinement).
  • Cebada Gago is the 1st cattle farm that has left the most gorings (59 in total).
  • Cebada Gago is the 6th ranch with the highest goring average (1.84 per confinement).
  • Of 32 participations, Cebada Gago has left gorings in 21 running of the bulls.
  • Cebada Gago is the 2nd cattle farm that has left the most injuries due to trauma (130 in total).
  • Cebada Gago is the 2nd cattle ranch that causes the most injuries (189 in total).
  • Cebada Gago is the farm that has left the most gorings in Santo Domingo (11 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in City Hall (4 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the farm that has left the most gorings in Estafeta (15 in 47 bull runs).
  • Cebada Gago is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in Telefónica (8 in 47 confinements).
  • Cebada Gago is the ranch that has left the most gorings in Callejón (16 in 47 confinements).
  • Callejón is the section where Cebada Gago has left the most gorings (16 in 32 running of the bulls).
  • Mercaderes is the section where Cebada Gago has left the least gored (3 in 32 bull runs).

JANDILLA

Image by Javier Mutilva
  • Jandilla has participated in 21 encierros in the modern era of encierros.
  • Jandilla’s last running of the bulls in Pamplona, ??on July 12, 2022, was the fastest of this herd with 2’13?.
  • Jandilla’s slowest running of the bulls was the one on 07/11/2005, which lasted 5’33”.
  • In 21 participations Jandilla has left 32 gored (1.52 per confinement).
  • Jandilla is the 2nd cattle ranch that has left the most gorings (32 in total).
  • Jandilla is the 9th ranch with the highest goring average (1.52 per encierro).
  • In 21 participations, it is the 11th time that Jandilla has been gored.
  • Jandilla is the 3rd cattle ranch that has left the most injuries due to trauma (117 in total).
  • Jandilla is the 3rd cattle ranch that causes the most injuries (149 in total).
  • Callejón is the section where Jandilla has left the most gorings (10 in 21 confinements).
  • Jandilla is the cattle ranch that has left the most gorings in Mercaderes (6 in 47 bull runs).
  • Estafeta is the stretch where Jandilla has left the least gored (2 in 21 running of the bulls).

JOSÉ ESCOLAR

Image by Miguel Fernandez. Sanfermin 2022
  • José Escolar’s cattle farm has participated six times in the Sanfermin running of the bulls.
  • No bull from José Escolar returned , as they did in 2016, 2016 and 2017.
  • Santo Domingo is the stretch where Jose Escolar has left the most gorings (2 in 6 running of the bulls).
  • Of the 6 running of the bulls by Jose Escolar in Sanfermín, the fastest was held on 07/09/2019 in 2’13”.
  • Of the 6 running of the bulls by Jose Escolar in Sanfermín, the slowest was held on 07/08/2017, completed in 4’03”.
  • In 6 participations, Jose Escolar has left 10 gorings (1.67 per confinement).
  • Jose Escolar is the 9th stud farm that has left the most gorings (10 in total).
  • Jose Escolar is the 8th stud farm with the highest goring average (1.67 per encierro).
  • In 6 participations it is the 4th time that Jose Escolar leaves gored.
  • In 6 participations, Jose Escolar has left 38 injured due to trauma (6.33 due to confinement).
  • Jose Escolar is the 6th stud farm with the highest average number of injuries due to trauma (6.33 per confinement).
  • In 6 participations Jose Escolar has left 48 injured (8 due to confinement).
  • Jose Escolar is the 3rd ranch with the highest average number of injuries (8 per confinement).

NUNEZ DEL CUVILLO

Image of Juan Ignacio Delgado
  • The Núñez del Cuvillo cattle farm has participated 11 times in the Sanfermin running of the bulls.
  • In 11 participations Nunez del Cuvillo has left 11 gored (1 by confinement).
  • Nunez del Cuvillo is the 8th stud farm that has left the most gorings (11 in total).
  • Nunez del Cuvillo is the 14th stud farm with the highest goring rate (1 per confinement).
  • In 11 participations it is the 5th time that Nunez del Cuvillo has not been gored.
  • Nunez del Cuvillo is the 6th cattle farm that has left the most injuries due to trauma (55 in total).
  • Nunez del Cuvillo is the 6th cattle ranch that causes the most injuries (66 in total).
  • Of the 11 running of the bulls for Nunez del Cuvillo in Sanfermín, this was the 8th longest (2’25”). The slowest was 07/09/2004 (4’4»).
  • Santo Domingo is the section where Nunez del Cuvillo has left the most gorings (6 in 11 confinements) .

FUENTE YMBRO

Image by Manuel Corera
  • The Fuente Ymbro cattle ranch Fuente Ymbro has participated 15 times in the Sanfermin running of the bulls.
  • In 15 participations Fuente Ymbro has left 5 gorings (0.33 per bull run).
  • In 15 participations it is the 11th time that Fuente Ymbro has not been gored.
  • Fuente Ymbro is the 5th farm with the most injuries due to trauma (67 in total).
  • Fuente Ymbro is the 5th most injured cattle farm (72 in total).
  • The fastest encierro of Fuente Ymbro was the one on 07/10/2018 completed in 2’10”.
  • The slowest encierro of Fuente Ymbro ran on 07/09/2010, completed in 6’23”.
  • Estafeta is the section where Fuente Ymbro has left the most gorings (3 in 15 running of the bulls).

LA PALMOSILLA

Image by Javier Ibañez
  • In 2 participations, La Palmosilla has never been gored.
  • In 2 participations La Palmosilla has left 8 injured by trauma (4 by confinement).
  • Of the 2 running of the bulls at La Palmosilla in Sanfermín, the fastest was on 07/13/2019, which lasted 2’12”.
Imagen de Mikel Lasa que ofrece una imagen desde arriba de la cuesta de SAnto Domingo que permite ver en perspectiva a la manada del encierro acercándose. Se centra en los toros mostrando una imagen que adivina la potencia de cuatro toros estremecedores

Bull ranchs to sanfermin 2022

The Casa de Misericordia de Pamplona must take steps if everything works out to celebrate Sanfermin 2022 again and has confirmed to Navarra.com that it will have the same bull herds announced for the 2020 Bull Fair that was not held. There will be no official confirmation as long as the authorities do not take the step, but organizing a Bull Fair needs your deadlines and commitments. For now, this gesture is a symbol for organizing the next Sanfermin festivities, still orphaned by a political endorsement. (Image by Mikel Lasa.)

According to Navarra.com, the confirmation has come from the MECA Bullfighting Commission that has confirmed that all the planned irons “have bulls in the field for Pamplona.”

Ymbro Fountain replaces the Port of San Lorenzo

From Sanfermin 2019, seven bull ranch repeat, and Fuente Ymbro will replace Puerto de San Lorenzo since it did not give the expected result. If we celebrate Sanfermin 2022 we will celebrate it together with Cebada Gago, Miura, José Escolar, Victoriano del Río, Jandilla and the winners in 2019, Núñez del Cuvillo and La Palmosilla.

Running of the bulls open ceremony 2019

Resumen de la juerga. Así hemos empezado la que va a ser una de las mejores juergas de la historia.

OPEN CEREMONY LIVE, JUNE 6

This moment is marked by a rocket -the “Txupinazo”- which is set off to announce the start of the Fiesta. All morning, crowds gather in the “Plaza Ayuntamiento”. It is often a hot day and there is not an inch of free space in the packed Square. The passion and intensity grows every minute until it reaches a crescendo at midday. At that point the Mayor and members of the Council step out onto the balconies of the Town Hall to greet the crowds.A nominated person shouts the announcement; “Pamploneses, Pamplonesas, Viva San Fermín! Gora San Fermín!” (people of Pamplona, long live San Fermín!) The crowd responds with cries of “Viva!” and “Gora!” and the rocket is launched into the sky.


At this moment the Square erupts as hundreds of bottles of Champagne are uncorked and sprayed liberally over the crammed crowd. The smart, clean clothes of the excited people take their first, but not their last soaking from the jets of spraying Champagne. All over the city the same collective madness bursts out and a whole new atmosphere reigns in the town.

The first bout of drinking has started as thousands of bottles of champagne are guzzled down for the start of an uninterrupted party until the day of the 14th of July arrives. Within a few hours many people will be on a high that will last for the whole week. The Txupinazo begins a high that for many people will last the whole week.

 


How to take part in the Txupinazo rocket

If you want to get right in there among the packed crowd it means getting there an hour before and pushing your way in among the packed crowd. If you want to see the spectacle then the best place would be from any one of the many balconies of private houses which surround the square. But of course that means getting an invite from of the owners or to rent the balconies of sanfermin.com. The square is so crammed that it might be better just to go along to one of the surrounding streets where you can feel the atmosphere of the whole thing. Or you can just do the same as many of the locals do, and watch it from the T.V. in some bar or other.

Inside the square

If you want to get right in there among the packed crowd it means getting there an hour before and pushing your way in among the packed crowd. To experience the whole spectacle in this way is unique of course, but remember that you won’t be able to move a muscle in the tight space. It will also very likely be teeming hot even if the heat is only coming from the milling crowd of sweating drinking singing bodies crammed together. Some young people make a very disgusting mixings: quetchup, cacao, mustard, flour, saving foam, etc. The whole thing can be so suffocating that people from the balconies often pour buckets of water over the crammed crowd to give them some relief. There can sometimes be waves of bodies pushed forward and some people can fall to the ground among the avalance of people. When it’s all over the departing crowd often look like they have just come out of an old washing machine what with all the water, champagne and sweating.

There are always some first-aid posts to attend to those who have fainted or bruised themselves, though it has never gotten more serious than something like that.


 


Open ceremony advices (Chupinazo tricks)

It’s no place for kids. They could get stepped on and at their height there is not much air moving round.
It’s no place for wearing sandals or light shoes. You’re going to get stepped on and also many people drop their empty champagne bottles on the ground when they have finished them, so broken glass is to be found all over the square.
Don’t wear any clothes that you value, and this is good advice for the whole of the Fiesta.
Don’t take your camera or any valuables with you. Taking decent photos will be impossible with all the liquid spraying round. And if you drop anything like your wallet or whatever it could be difficult to look for it among the packed crowd.
If you don’t want to see it inside the plaza, you can just do the same as many of the locals do, and watch it from the T.V. in some bar or other or at the big screens at the Plaza del Castillo.

 


Open ceremony from our balcony

If you can watch the Open Ceremony from a balcony we can offer to you the best of them. Surely the best balcony to watch the Open Ceremony with the rocket launch (The Txupinazo). You can be exclusive witness of the Fiesta from a safe and privileged position. Our local guides (Spanish, English, French) accompany you to the apartment, from which you can watch the event while enjoying a typical snack with drinks.

Pamplona memories 1984. My first San Fermin. By Chris Dwyer

There was a contingent of Garmisch adventurers that went to Pamplona every year for the Festival of San Fermin. Bomber was the most experienced runner in the group and told great stories about prior years and the close calls with the horns and riots between Basque locals and the police and military. The first time I heard him talk about Pamplona was when we were getting stoned together in Uganda in the shade of the Sikh temple wall, where they had come looking for a place to stay, but were turned away. I was immediately hooked on the idea of going to Pamplona and running with the bulls and was thinking about Spain when he and Goldie left me to walk through Kampala (3 miles with their packs) to the other Sikh temple to see if they had room for them to stay. The sun was going down and I worried for them. Very few people were on the street at night, it was a dangerous city after dark in 1983.

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Imagen del chupinazo de san fermin lleno de gente y con los gaiteros saliendo del ayuntamiento

Essence

“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”  

Germaine Greer.

 

At the end of the encierro in Pamplona the adrenalin’s edge softens and the sense of relief, satisfaction, fulfilment and even disappointment takes its place.  At the same time, amid the Kaiku y cognacs, coffees and conversation, thoughts turn towards breakfast.

There was a time when groups of runners would take the short stroll down Plaza del Castillo, crossing Estafeta and up to Calle de la Merced where they would find a few spare benches outside La Raspa and sit down.  The crowd would vary day to day but ultimately it would be a relaxed affair where a group of friends could eat a simple breakfast, share a few bottles of tinto with gaseosa and chat away in a mood of contented camaraderie.  The odd jota would meanwhile float over from a nearby table. It was always the perfect way to ease into the day and to transition between the drama of the encierro and the rhythm of fiesta.

Not now.

Now the tables are all reserved: booked up in advance for the “right people” and the impromptu breakfast has been replaced by a stage-managed event.  The very concept of spontaneity has been sacrificed because the breakfast “event” is so popular that everyone wants to join in. Everyone wants a piece of the action and to be seen to be there.  When the essence of a thing vanishes what is left is an artificial facsimile of the original.

We have seen it before in so many ways.  If you have ever dreamed of visiting a famous monument or notoriously beautiful site then you will be aware that the truth does not match the dream.  That amazing view across to Niagra Falls, across the Grand Canyon or up The Mall to Buckingham Palace is not something you can enjoy in the way you imagined.  This is because of the sheer mass of humanity getting in the way of the view. The forest of selfie sticks, or ego poles as someone else has described them, has to be waded through and any photograph has to be captured in that split second when a group of Japanese tourists, British schoolchildren or American coach tour is not right in the optimal place.

Popular sites are popular for a reason – people believe they are worth seeing “in the flesh”.  Their essence is something that is worth enjoying in person. Yet in doing so we end up killing them through popularity.  Pumphrey described it as the “devil’s bargain”, and that experience is greatly diminished not just because it has to be shared with dozens of Antipodean backpackers but because that sense of intimacy, that personal connection, is compromised.

It is very easy to leap up and blame the very modern phenomenon of social media for much of this.  After all the attitude that drives so many of us to share our lives with the rest of the world has found a natural home in the digital age.  Not only that but there is an accompanying theme of the need to prove how amazing our lives are while sharing them with the world. As a result the selfie stick pervades and every visit to a famous monument or site has to be captured as evidence not only that we were there, but that we were having the most amazing time while we were at it.

Yet it wouldn’t be fair to blame this solely on the rise of social media.  As long as humans have been able to travel for leisure and been able to share that experience so the complaints of over-crowding and spoiling have existed.

The famous European Grand Tour was an expected trip for wealthier members of British society, particularly between the 17th and 19th centuries.  Yet even as far back as then there were complaints that the circuit was getting too crowded and too rowdy.  As Professor Kathleen Burke writes; “The undisciplined and sometimes violent behaviour of young Englishmen was often commented upon; certainly, for the staff of British embassies abroad, the activities of English visitors, ‘each vying with the other who should be the wildest and most eccentric’, were a major preoccupation. ‘Even Russians were impressed by the cohorts of wild English youth they found in the cities of western Europe.’”

Hemingway too acknowledged the down side to the popularity of something so beloved.  “Pamplona was rough, as always, overcrowded… I’ve written Pamplona once, and for keeps. It is all there, as it always was, except forty thousand tourists have been added. There were not twenty tourists when I first went there… four decades ago.”

Social media has merely exacerbated this and contributed to it on a global level.  Take a trip to San Sebastián, home of the most wonderful pintxos and tapas, and you will see what popularity has done to this culture.  The principle of tapas, how tapas traditionally works in Spanish towns and cities, has been erased. In its place there is a much more stage-managed, tourist-friendly version where the bars do not want people to pop in for a mini and a single pintxo.  Now they hand you a plate and encourage you to stay long and spend deep in order to keep the cash registers ringing. (This is not to denigrate the gastronomy of San Sebastián, which is outstanding).

This is not how tapas works elsewhere, but San Sebastián has become popular on a mercurial scale.  When this happens a critical mass is reached and something has to give. As Hassan Bougrine points out; “…the essence of the capitalist economy is the need to ‘make money’.”  No wonder that tradition is distorted. Though perhaps some would say that it is actually more positive – an evolution that gives the customers what they want. Given that a high proportion of those present in the Basque city are foreign travellers, that evolution to ‘Tapas Tourism’ is not surprising.

The intense beauty of Cornish fishing villages is such an allure that those with enough income have been buying holiday homes there for many years.  This has had such a negative impact on the communities, effectively destroying the villages outside the holiday seasons, that bans on purchasing second homes now exist in a number of Cornish locations.

The essence of a thing is so fragile, so precious and so difficult to grasp that when we reach for it, it vanishes.  Like grasping a handful of sand on the beach, the tighter we hold on the less we are able to keep a grip on it and the sooner it slips through our fingers and is gone.  We rarely aim to destroy the essence of a thing intentionally, we merely realise that it has happened almost by stealth and the truth of our impact has crept up on us, seemingly out of nowhere.  Yet, destroy the essence of something we most certainly do.

With something fragile and something so desirable the answer, surely, is to handle with care.  We want to reach out and grasp something that shines and yet, like ice crystals, the very touch itself can destroy the thing.  In this case it must be wiser to enjoy a thing in the moment and be prepared to walk away, to change and to sacrifice the very thing we love so as not to destroy it.  This is not easy for, in the moment, we are normally overtaken by the desire to sink ourselves into the experience. Similarly we often destroy one small cut at a time and may not recognise it until it is too late.

Surely as soon as we feel a thing we love is at risk of being stage-managed or that its essence has been compromised or killed by popularity we should be prepared to walk away.  Perhaps we should even be prepared to walk away long before then. Take the post-encierro breakfast as an example. If we attend every single day are we expecting too much from it?  Are we forcing the fun to fulfil an expectation or are we merely contributing to the destruction of its essence. Once something becomes routine it is no longer special.

That is not to say that such things should cease and many people find enjoyment in routine.  Some would even claim that they are able to hold onto the essence of something even when it is a routine.

One of the most common complaints is that the encierro has been destroyed through being too popular.  Complainants point to the crowded streets and the high proliferation of non-Spanish runners (estimated to be 45% in 2017) as contributing factors.  Talk to any “old timer” and they will generally yearn for a time when the streets were quieter, when you had space to run and when you could actually see the bulls.  The essence of the encierro has gone, replaced by backpackers, beginners and wishful thinking.

The evidence does not totally support this view.

The encierro has been popular for a very long time and crowding is most certainly not a modern phenomenon.  Old black and white photographs and even film reels show crowded streets, a crowded Plaza de Toros, pile ups and packed barriers going back many decades – all seemingly without killing off the soul of the encierro.

Additionally, the modern crowding is not getting any worse according to figures released by the Ayuntamiento of Pamplona.  An article published on sanfermin.com highlighted the fact that some years, such as 2012, saw over 20 thousand runners take part across the 8 days, while others much less.  2017 was estimated to have had around 16 thousand runners. Volumes also vary dramatically from day-to-day. It would appear that a patient and determined runner can find space on the right day if he bides his time and takes his chances.

So while it is true that we often smoother the thing we love and destroy its essence, sometimes the thing we love is not actually dead and we just need to look at it slightly differently.  Perhaps, as in San Sebastián, we need to experience it differently and re-learn what the essence now is. Ultimately we need to acknowledge that the essence of a thing is fleeting, transient and that we should enjoy what we can of it while it lasts.

Lucinda Poole, nueva Guiri del año posa con la mano sobre la barbilla

Face to face with Lucinda Poole, “Guiri” of the year

Picture by  José Luis Larrión

American journalist, Lucinda Poole, will be awarded during Sanfermin 2017 with the XIV Premio Guiri del Año, an award which is given each year by Kukuxumusu and Sanfermin.com to a foreigner who has stood out for their love of the Sanfermin fiestas. This year, in its fourteenth edition, the winner of this award is the versatile journalist and translator, Lucinda Poole, who will follow in the footsteps of last year’s winner, Englishman Tim Pinks.

Lucinda Poole is a 60 year-year-old woman, from Chapel Hill (North Carolina) and she has been associated with the Pamplona fiestas for more than three decades now. Indeed, her first writing on the fiestas was a guide book published as “Don’t Be a Foreigner in Sanfermines”(1982).

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Imagen de Lucinda Poole frente a la obra completa de Hemingway en un posado.

Kukuxumusu awards American journalist Lucinda Poole with the “Guiri Del Año” award of Sanfermin 2017

Photo by José Luis Larrión

American journalist, Lucinda Poole, will be awarded during Sanfermin 2017 with the XIV Premio Guiri del Año, an award which is given each year by Kukuxumusu and Sanfermin.com to a foreigner who has stood out for their love of the Sanfermin fiestas. This year, in its fourteenth edition, the winner of this award is the versatile journalist and translator, Lucinda Poole, who will follow in the footsteps of last year’s winner, Englishman Tim Pinks. Continue reading…