PAMPLONA Capital de Navarra Presentación Jeanine Carr Olé, el toro bravo PAMPLONA Capital de Navarra Presentación Jeanine Carr

PAMPLONA Capital de la Comunidad autónoma de Navarra. Home of El Encierro / The Running of the Bulls, at the feast of San Fermín in July. 1999 was the 100th anniversary of Hemingway, who memorialized the town with his book The Sun also rises

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La Fiesta de San Fermín - el 7 de julio

Chupinazo in Plaza Consistorial At noon on 6 July Pamplona’s plazas and streets are packed with people awaiting the firing of a rocket to signal the opening of the celebration. They hold their pañuelos or scarves above their heads and chant the Saint’s name, “San Fermín! San Fermín! San Fermín!.” This image depicts part of the crowd in front of the Ayuntamiento, town hall. All eyes are intently fixed on the balcony from which the rocket will be fired.

La Sra. Carr frente a la entrada de the Plaza de Toros

Pamplona – La Plaza de Toros

El Encierro – The Running of the Bulls

Los Gigantes The morning procession of the Gigantes and their court begins promptly each day at 9:30 a.m. and winds its way through the old quarter. These huge figures, created by Navarran artist Tadeo Amorena in the 1800’s, represent the kings and queens of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The Gigantes are accompanied by a colorful court comprised of seventeen somewhat smaller and more colorful characters known as Cabezudos, Kilikis, and Zaldikos

La Fiesta de San Fermín A young girl attired in the traditional dress of her homeland, participates in a dance troupe that performs songs and dances dating back centuries. This proud culture, its customs and traditions are on display in large and small ways throughout the days and nights of Fiesta de San Fermín. The many cultural events and exhibitions listed in the official program of fiesta are far too many for any person to attend. Informal impromptu displays are encountered in the streets.

El Encierro In Cuesta de Santo Domingo, the very beginning of the encierro, the bulls are usually tightly packed as depicted in this image and they are racing at a rate of speed no human can match but for a few moments. Experienced runners who know Santo Domingo well can be seen here every morning, running in the Navarran style, oble y bravo, in the aura of danger and on the horns. el periódico

El Encierro Turning out of Plaza Consistorial and onto the shortest section of the route, Calle Mercaderes, nearly halfway through the course, the bulls remain tightly packed, pushing a mass of humanity before them. Only this segment of the course and the bullring itself are bathed in sunlight at this early morning hour. The balance of the half-mile route is shaded by tall, balconied buildings.

Las Sanfermines

The Running of the Bulls

El fín de la Fiesta At midnight on July 14 fiesta ends. Again the streets and plazas are packed. The closing is as different from and as dramatic as the opening on noon the sixth. All carry candles and sing a mournful dirge. A rocket fires and pañuelos are untied. The faces in this image capture the emotion of the last moments of fiesta. El pañuelo

El traje de luces El matador Las banderillas La muleta In his Traje de Luces, suit of light, Matador Julian Lopez, El Juli, executes a left-handed pass known as a naturale with the bull “fixed” in the muleta or small red cloth. El Juli has been a sensation since he fought and killed a young bull on the day he made his first communion. The brave, artistic, baby-faced torero sells out bullrings on two continents, earning millions of dollars each year. A favorite in the Pamplona Plaza de Toros, the crowd chants his name, “Ju-li!, Ju-li! Ju-li!”

Plaza del Castillo y el Café Iruña hangout of Heminghway

The Statue of the Running of the Bulls

The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Quite possibly Hemingway's best novel, The Sun Also Rises captures the romantic idleness and angst of the 1920s Lost Generation in most candid form. As a group of post-WWI expatriates saunter between wine and bullfights in Left Bank Paris and Pamplona, their love and self-worth rise and fall with luminous drama. The narrator Jake Barnes, a thinly veiled version of the author, recounts his ebbing relationships with ex-boxer Robert Cohen and love interest Brett Ashley as they deal with their masculinity, morals and unrealized loves. For all the sexist talk about Hemingway, he creates a most modern woman out of Brett Ashley, who definitely wears the pants in her relationships and struggles to break free from insulated female roles of the past. Inspired by a trip to the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain in 1925, Hemingway based his characters on actual friends and when it was published in 1926, it immediately established him as one of the greatest writers of his time

Heminghway at the Running of the Bulls

Ray Mouton was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, received a law degree from LSU and practiced in his home state until 1988 before beginning to devote himself to writing full time. A novel, After Advent, was awarded first prize in manuscript form by The Deep South Writers Conference. He has written several film scripts and is at work on a novel drawn from his experience in the law.      His relationship with Pamplona dates to 1970 when he camped on the river bank behind the bullring and he has attended Sanfermines every year since 1986. He lived in Sevilla for periods of time and spent winters on a bull ranch in the mountains of Mexico, places where he pursued his interest in the subjects and themes of this book.      He has three children and a stepson. Mouton and his wife divide their time between Europe, Mexico, and the French Quarter of New Orleans. Pamplona's Fiesta has been described as "the best week you can live on the planet," and this book takes you to the epicenter of the grand festival in Spain's Basque country.