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Ten days after the last “Pobre de mí” fades in Pamplona’s Plaza Consistorial, a second encierro starts running, on a different route, in a different city, for a…
Calle Santo Domingo in Pamplona hides a shrine that looks ancient. The city built it in stages, starting with a 1970 hospital window.
Ask why San Fermín goes global every July and most answers stop at Hemingway. The real machinery is a city press office credentialing hundreds of journalists a year.
Most encierro history stops at the cattle-transport explanation. Here's the full timeline: banned racing, 18th-century ordinances, and how the run outlived the job that created it.
Women were banned from Pamplona's encierro for 107 years under an 1867 law. The history behind the 1974 repeal and today's low turnout.
The hospital treating Pamplona's encierro injuries has changed its name three times since 1932. The real history behind gored runners' care.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara's Pamplona bull run used trained bulls, not the live herd, and sparked a PETA backlash. Here is the full production record.
Most Spanish-language coverage of Ganadería Alcurrucén calls it one of the regular names on the San Fermín encierro program, a fact built on five real appearances in Pamplona…
The definitive guide to the language of San Fermín and the encierro. From the Basque roots of fiesta words to the Spanish terms every runner needs to know…
We're not trying to get more people to come to Pamplona. We're runners. Daily, we confront the challenges of the bull run on the route. What we offer…