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| A Spanish matador gives a pass to a bull during the San Fermin Festival, in Spain. The eight-day long festivities have taken place since medieval times, but became internationally famous following the publication of US writer Ernest Hemingway’s modernist novel The Sun Also Rises, and it now attracts nearly a million visitors. AFP PHOTO |
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| Revellers hold up their red scarves during the start of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. REUTERS |
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| Participants celebrate playing music during an al fresco lunch at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. REUTERS |
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| Animal-rights activists protest lying covered in black paint as they form the words ’Stop bullfighting’ during a demonstration calling for the abolition of bull runs and bullfights, a day before the start of the famous running of the bulls San Fermin festival in Pamplona REUTERS |
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| Participants are sprayed with water as they celebrate during the ’Chupinazo’ to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival .AFP PHOTO |
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| Revelers celebrate the start of Spain’s most famous bull-running festival with the annual launch of the "chupinazo" rocket, in Spain. AP Photo |
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| Participants celebrate during the ’Chupinazo’ to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival, in Spain. AFP PHOTO |
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| Runners sprint alongside Fuente Ymbro fighting bulls at the Estafeta corner during the fifth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Several runners are reported suffered light injuries in a run that lasted three minutes and twelve seconds. REUTERS |
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| Revelers fall in front of a Miura’s ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona. AP Photo |
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| Participants run in front of Victorinano del Rio Cortes’s bulls during the sixth San Fermin Festival bull run, in Spain. AFP PHOTO |
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| Participants run in front of Fuente Ymbro’s bulls during the fifth San Fermin Festival bull run, in Spain. AFP PHOTO |
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| Runners fall in front of Victoriano del Rio fighting bulls at the Plaza Consistorial during the sixth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. REUTERS |
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| A bull jumps over revelers in a bullring during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona northern Spain. AP Photo |
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| Revellers taunt a fighting cow in the Plaza de Toros following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. REUTERS |
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| Revelers sleep before the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Spain. AP Photo |
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| Revellers are showered with sparks from the ’Fire Bull’, a man carrying a metal structure loaded with fireworks on the fifth day of the San Fermin festival in Spain. REUTERS |
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| A man dressed as a giant holds a young girl during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival, in Spain. The estival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups. AFP PHOTO |
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| A Spanish bullfighter during a horseback bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas, in Spain. AP Photo |
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| A Spanish bullfighter performs during a bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas, in Pamplona. AP Photo |
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| A Spanish matador looks at his Cebada Gago bull during the third corrida of the San Fermin Festival, in Spain. AFP PHOTO |
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| Revelers kiss during the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain. The festival is also known for its wild all-night street parties which commemorate the city’s patron saint. AP Photo |
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