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 or first weekend of October. Some links may contain graphic content where marked. Running of the bulls The running of the bulls (, from the verb "encerrar", 'to corral, to enclose'; , literally 'haste, momentum'; , 'street-bulls') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of cattle, typically six but sometimes ten or more, that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets, usually as part of a summertime festival. Particular breeds of cattle may be favored, such as the in Spain, also often used in post-run bullfighting, and