San Fermín a fireworks display at the city hall. This closing ceremony tradition started out in the 1920s. The running of the bulls (In Spanish "encierro or los toros de san Fermin") involves hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and another six steers down an 825-meter (0.51 mile) stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. The run ends in the Pamplona's bullring taking a mean time of around 3 minutes where the bulls would be held until the afternoon's bullfight when they would be killed. Bullruns are held between July 7 and 14
Running of the bulls the Raia in Sabugal, Portugal, with horses leading the herd crossing old border passes out of Spain and using the medieval 'Forcåo', or the bull run of Navalcarnero held at night. Other "encierros" have also caused fatalities. "Bous al carrer", "correbou" or "correbous" (meaning in Catalan, 'bulls in the street', 'street-bulls') is a typical festivity in many villages in the Valencian region, Terres de l'Ebre, Catalonia, and Fornalutx, Mallorca. Another similar tradition is "soltes de vaques", where cows are used instead of bulls. Even though they can take place all along the year, they are most usual during local festivals