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The Encierro archive · 1907

Running of the Bulls 1907: San Fermín in Pamplona

San Fermín 1907 had a bull run (encierro) every morning at six from Sunday, July 7, to Wednesday, July 10. A young man was caught in the ring on the first morning, a Miura knocked a runner down in Estafeta on the 9th, and on the last morning a Muruve bull left behind loose in calle Santo Domingo emptied the streets.4, 6, 7, 8

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4runs, July 7 to 10
6:00start, a.m.
2runners hurt

How the fiesta ran in 1907

The fiesta of 1907 began, as the programme put it, with bands, drums and gaiteros waking before dawn those going to “el encierro de los carriquiris que se celebrará en la forma de costumbre”, the encierro of the Carriquiri bulls, held in the usual way.2 Runs started at six at the bang of a rocket; the paper names the small corral of the Portal de Rochapea as the start.3, 4, 8

There were four runs, July 7 to 10. On July 9 a second lot, the Lizaso bulls, had run in earlier, before six.6 The fiesta ended with the last encierro: right after it the carpenters took the fences down.8

For anyone away from Pamplona, part of what was missed was simple: one exiled columnist wrote of a San Fermín “sin comer churros después del encierro”, without eating churros after the encierro.1

Every known encierro of 1907, by day and ranch

The encierros of San Fermín 1907, from the Diario de Navarra programmes and reports.
DateRunRanch (ganadería)What the paper reported
July 71Conde de Espoz y Mina (Carriquiri)A young man caught and dragged in the ring
July 82José Pereira Palha Blanco“sin ningún incidente desagradable ni lamentable”
July 93MiuraA runner knocked down in Estafeta, arm broken
July 104, lastMuruveOne bull left behind, loose in calle Santo Domingo

The 1907 encierros, day by day

Run 1 of 4

· Conde de Espoz y Mina

Start6:00 a.m.
Hurt1

At six the rocket went up and the Carriquiri bulls climbed the cuesta del Hospital and entered the ring, preceded by numerous groups of runners, with nothing notable on the way. In the ring, as the runners fanned out, one of them turned a bull off its line to the pen just as another, looking back as he ran, fell; the bull went for him and he “fué empitonado y arrastrado unos ocho metros”, caught on the horn and dragged about eight metres. He got up calmly.4 On July 19, twelve days later, he was still improving in the civil hospital.9

Run 2 of 4

· José Pereira Palha Blanco

Start6:00 a.m.
IncidentsNone

The Portuguese bulls of José Pereira Palha Blanco, moved from the old gas works,3 left the small corral of the Rochapea gate at six and entered the ring preceded by a numerous group of young men. “El encierro se hizo sin ningún incidente desagradable ni lamentable.”4

Run 3 of 4

· Miura

Start6:00 a.m.
Hurt1, arm broken

Before six the Lizaso bulls ran in, watched by a fair number of people, without incident. At six the Miura encierro ran as usual, with more runners than on the earlier days. In Estafeta one Miura got ahead of the herd and knocked down a well-known friend of the paper, tearing his jacket, waistcoat and shirt “sin que el cuerno llegara al cuerpo”, without the horn reaching his body; in the fall he broke the ulna of his right arm and cut his forehead.5, 6

Run 4 of 4, the last

· Muruve

Start6:00 a.m.
Bulls left behind1

One Muruve bull, the paper wrote, “hizo ayer prolongar la diversión del encierro”. It stayed behind, either at the corral by the Rochapea gate or splitting off at the bajada de Santo Domingo, and stopped in calle Santo Domingo opposite the military hospital. It charged the fence between that street and the cuesta del Hospital and knocked it down; the fence fell on the bull, which stayed in the street. Meanwhile the rocket for the herd entering the ring had gone up, the gates in the side-street fences had been opened and the streets were filling. Then “Bien pronto corrió la voz de que un toro rezagado recorría las calles”: the streets emptied in a rush and the gates were shut again. The herdsmen came with two steers and took the bull to the ring, where the crowd was waiting anxiously. Muruve bulls, the paper added, were always like this: the year before, three had stayed behind in the ring.7, 8

San Fermín 1907 poster (cartel)

San Fermín 1907 poster (cartel) by R. Tejedor: a veiled lady sits in an open motor car watching young men in berets, the first with a red neckerchief, run ahead of a herd of bulls and steers, with the arms of Navarra and Pamplona
Cartel de San Fermín 1907. Poster of the Fiestas y Ferias de San Fermín 1907, sketch by R. Tejedor. Tap the poster to see it full size. See every San Fermín poster.11, 10
San Fermín 1907 poster (cartel) by R. Tejedor: a veiled lady sits in an open motor car watching young men in berets, the first with a red neckerchief, run ahead of a herd of bulls and steers, with the arms of Navarra and Pamplona
Artist
R. Tejedor (“Boceto de R. Tejedor”)
Dated
Pamplona, June 20, 1907
Signed by
Daniel Irujo, mayor; Agapito Goñi, secretary
Printed by
Lit. E. Portabella, Zaragoza

Ollaquindía: the 1907 poster “combina la tradición con el progreso”. A grand lady, seated in her luxurious car of the latest model, now a museum piece, watches a popular encierro in the old style, which, he notes, was still run the same way in 1981.10 Young men in berets, the first with a red neckerchief, run ahead of the bulls and steers, with a herdsman behind the herd.11

The poster names the ranches whose bulls came: Eduardo Miura and the widow of Muruve of Seville, José Pereira Palha Blanco of Portugal, the Conde de Espoz y Mina and Manuela Lizaso, widow of Mata, of Pamplona. It also lists the concerts with Pablo Sarasate, a scientific, literary and artistic contest, electric illuminations, encierros, pelota, fireworks and giants and big-heads.11

Pamplona in 1907

In verse

New alpargatas

The programme page of July 7 carried a humorous verse about a runner in new alpargatas who runs ahead of the bulls up Estafeta and dives into the callejón two fingers ahead of a forest of horns.3

Words of 1907

Carriquiris, miureños, portugueses

The paper named each herd after its ranch or its country: los carriquiris, los miureños, los portugueses. It used encierro for the run and corralillo for the small corral at the Rochapea gate, and rezagado for a bull left behind.2, 4, 6, 8

Photographs

Where to see old photographs

The city’s photo archive, the Fototeca de Pamplona, holds historic photographs of the encierro, free to view online.12

San Fermín 1907: questions and answers

When were the bull runs of San Fermín 1907?

San Fermín 1907 had four bull runs, every morning at six from Sunday, July 7, to Wednesday, July 10, 1907, with bulls of the Conde de Espoz y Mina (Carriquiri), José Pereira Palha Blanco, Miura and Muruve.2, 3, 5, 7

Was anyone hurt in the 1907 running of the bulls?

Runners were hurt in the running of the bulls of 1907 on July 7 and July 9. On July 7 a young man who fell in the ring was caught on a horn and dragged about eight metres, and was still in the civil hospital on July 19; on July 9 a Miura knocked a man down in Estafeta, and he broke his right arm in the fall.4, 9, 6

What happened on the last morning of 1907?

A Muruve bull left behind on July 10, 1907 stopped in calle Santo Domingo, knocked down a fence and stayed in the street while people were already filling the course. When word spread, the streets emptied, and the herdsmen brought it to the ring with two steers.8

What did the Diario de Navarra call the herds in 1907?

The Diario de Navarra named each herd of 1907 after its ranch or its country: los carriquiris, los miureños, los portugueses. It used encierro for the run, corralillo for the small corral at the Rochapea gate and rezagado for a bull left behind.2, 4, 6, 8

Who made the San Fermín 1907 poster?

R. Tejedor made the San Fermín 1907 poster, marked “Boceto de R. Tejedor”: a grand lady in a motor car of the latest model watches young men run ahead of a herd of bulls, combining tradition with progress, as Ollaquindía puts it.11, 10

Sources

Numbers on the page refer to this list. Diario de Navarra pages are cited from its archive (hemeroteca); quotations in Spanish are given as printed, in the spelling of the day.

Full source list
  1. Diario de Navarra, July 3, 1907, page 1: a column from a writer far from Pamplona, “sin comer churros después del encierro”. Diario de Navarra archive
  2. Diario de Navarra, July 6, 1907, page 1: programme for July 7, “el encierro de los carriquiris que se celebrará en la forma de costumbre”. Diario de Navarra archive
  3. Diario de Navarra, July 7, 1907, page 4: programme for July 8, the Palha bulls leave the small corral of the Portal de Rochapea at six; a humorous verse on running in new alpargatas. Diario de Navarra archive
  4. Diario de Navarra, July 9, 1907, page 1: the encierros of July 7 (Espoz y Mina) and July 8 (Palha). Diario de Navarra archive
  5. Diario de Navarra, July 9, 1907, page 1: programme for July 9, the encierro of the Miura bulls at six. Diario de Navarra archive
  6. Diario de Navarra, July 10, 1907, page 1: the Lizaso bulls before six and the Miura encierro of July 9. Diario de Navarra archive
  7. Diario de Navarra, July 10, 1907, page 1: programme for July 10, the Murube encierro at six. Diario de Navarra archive
  8. Diario de Navarra, July 11, 1907, page 1: “Uno de los toros de Muruve hizo ayer prolongar la diversión del encierro”. Diario de Navarra archive
  9. Diario de Navarra, July 19, 1907, page 3: the young man caught on July 7 still improving in the civil hospital. Diario de Navarra archive
  10. Ricardo Ollaquindía, 100 años de carteles de las fiestas y ferias de San Fermín (1882 to 1981), Pamplona, 1981, chapter “1907”. Free copy in the Biblioteca Navarra Digital (BiNaDi). binadi.navarra.es
  11. The poster of the Fiestas y Ferias de San Fermín 1907 itself, dated Pamplona, June 20, 1907, signed by the mayor Daniel Irujo and the secretary Agapito Goñi; “Boceto de R. Tejedor”; printed by Lit. E. Portabella, Zaragoza.
  12. Fototeca de Pamplona, Archivo Municipal de Pamplona (photographs of the encierro, free to view online; publication needs the archive’s permission). archivo.pamplona.es
How to cite this page

Encierro. “Running of the Bulls 1907: San Fermín in Pamplona.” Encierro.com, November 9, 2026. https://encierro.com/san-fermin-1907/

Corrections and updates
  • : questions and answers rewritten around what people search, each answer with its sources; the poster labelled with its Spanish name, cartel.
  • : page published.

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