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 During the festival everyone wears the traditional San Fermin dress: all white with a red sash and red scarf - in memory of the saint himself when he was beheaded over a thousand years ago. Here’s what you should look like:
Here’s what you will look like:
And then...
Bring as much as you can from home for convenience sake, but don’t splash out because you may not stay white for long. Everything can be bought cheaply in Pamplona but to save time and hassle you might as well do it at home.
Click above to play The Encierro Game This is the unofficial site by the infamous festival artist known as Kukuxumusu.
Click above and see if you can work out what is being said in this short Kukuxumusu styled clip.
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San
Fermin is the patron saint of Pamplona and every year the Sanfermines
festival, that dates back to the Middle Ages, is held in his honour.
While the Encierro (bull run) has
brought international fame to the festival, in reality this is really
just one part of a large-scale and wide-ranging assortment of festivities
- not to mention an excuse for one of Europe’s
largest
street
parties.
