{"id":12345,"date":"2025-11-20T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:26:47","slug":"fete-de-san-fermin-a-pampelune-espagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/types\/events\/festival-of-san-fermin-pamplona-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00eate de San Ferm\u00edn, Pampelune, Espagne"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Festival of San Ferm\u00edn is a world-famous annual celebration held in Pamplona, the capital of the autonomous region of Navarra in northern Spain. The festival combines religious tradition, cultural pageantry, nightly entertainment, bullfights, and, most famously, the running of the bulls (encierro).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival honors Saint Ferm\u00edn, a 3rd-century Christian martyr who became one of the patron saints of Pamplona. Historically, the festival merges three traditions: the religious commemoration of San Ferm\u00edn, a seasonal livestock fair, and the practice of herding bulls through the city\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quand et o\u00f9 cela se d\u00e9roule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Le festival se d\u00e9roule chaque ann\u00e9e du 6 au 14 juillet \u00e0 Pampelune.
The official opening, known as the Chupinazo, happens at noon on 6 July. A rocket is launched from the balcony of Pamplona\u2019s City Hall, marking the formal start of the fiesta.
The closing ceremony occurs at midnight on 14 July, when participants gather in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (City Hall Square) to sing \u201cPobre de m\u00ed\u201d (\u201cPoor Me\u201d), often by candlelight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course de taureaux (Encierro)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most internationally recognized event of San Ferm\u00edn is the running of the bulls, which takes place each morning from 7 to 14 July at 8:00. The route starts at the Santo Domingo corral and winds through the fenced-off narrow streets of the old quarter for about 850 meters to the bullring (Plaza de Toros), usually in two to three minutes. Each run involves six fighting bulls escorted by steers to keep them on course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La course est dangereuse : 16 personnes y ont perdu la vie depuis le d\u00e9but des relev\u00e9s en 1910, la derni\u00e8re en 2009, et des dizaines sont bless\u00e9es chaque ann\u00e9e. Les coureurs doivent avoir au moins 18 ans, \u00eatre sobres et ne pas porter d\u2019appareil photo, de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone ni de sac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon each day from 7 to 14 July, the bulls that ran in the morning take part in bullfights (corridas) at Pamplona\u2019s bullring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autres temps forts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every morning the parade of giants and big-heads (Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos) winds through the old town, the solemn procession of San Ferm\u00edn takes place on 7 July, and fireworks light up the sky every night. Most people dress in white with a red sash and neckerchief. Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) made the fiesta famous around the world. The street events are free, but hotels in Pamplona are booked up months ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pamplona’s fiesta from 6 to 14 July, famous for the morning running of the bulls through the old town, plus parades, fireworks and street parties.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,1053,961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-navarre","category-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}