PETA and The Bulls

This year PETA and AnimaNaturalis associations will protest agains the animal abuse and bullfight on the 4th of July in Pamplona before the San Fermin Festival will start. Last year, as sign of condemnation,a hundred people scantily clad formed the silhouette of wounded bull asking for abolition of this tradition and reporting the Running of the Bulls. In previous years members of these associations made ​​a run for the tour of enclosure (encierro). However, these last two years staged on the ground the figure of awounded bull. In Pamplona they don´t generate much attention, but this image appears on all televisions in the world.

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July 6

         ¡VIVA SAN FERMÍN!

         ¡GORA SAN FERMÍN!

         ¡ FELICES FIESTAS!
         

"The ladder"

In Pamplona is a custom among many groups of friends, to organise a dinner on the following dates January 1st, February 2nd, March 3rd, April 4th, May 5th, June 6th and finally, the very last one on July7th.
These dinners are called "The Ladder", as the first step begins the first day of the year and the 7th and last step is in the 7th July when San Fermin Festival will start with the Running of the Bulls as the 6th of July is the Chupinazo or Opening Ceremony.

At this moment we are counting down as in less than 20 days we will reach the last step, which is the last and more important one.  Some of these groups of friends, only the most devoted, they organize a mass each day of “The Ladder”. This mass will beheld in San Lorenzo´s Church as there is where the image of San Fermin is located.

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Waste Containers during San Fermín

Before San Fermín will start, the city council´s workers will remove the "mailboxes" for waste collection that are among the Running of the Bulls itinerary and they will reinstalled the pavers in the hollows occupied by these mailboxes. The old mobile containers will re-occupy their old location but only during San Fermin.
The vacuum waste collection on Pamplona´s Old Town  Pamplona has been functioning over a year now. This system allows the collection and transfer of househ old waste from the boxes installed in the street directly toa treatment plant through underground tunnels. Below each mailbox there arevertical some pipes which are provided with a system of valves used for emptying the container, so that the bags with all the residues are conducted by propelling air currents of up to 90 kilometres per hour through underground canal sup to the main head quarter plant which is 1.5 kms away from Pamplona. 

Currently there are 110 boxes scattered around the OldTown, 10 of them are situated in Estafeta St. With the retirement of old containers they have managed to create more space fo rpedestrian traffic, it has minimized the odour problems and removed the noise and pollution from the collection trucks as they no longer circulate in the area.

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Running and the Bulls

Pamplona´s City Councilis conducting a campaign among Australian, British and New Zealand’sTour Operators in order to prevent the jumping from the Navarrería´s Fountain during the San Fermin Festival.The Council has informed that the will not only repeat the campaign to sensitize about the traditional running on the bulls wearing white clothes or civic behaviours, but maintaining the banof entering any kind of glass (bottles mainly) in the Consistorial Plaza during the Chupinazo. (6th of July)

For the new campaign posters have been published which read 'NO. Donot do it ', inviting not to jump from the Navarrería Fountain. The text is only written in English, since this practice has become common in recent years among some visitors, mainly from Australia, Britain and New Zealand.
In addition the City Hallen courages the runners to wear white clothing in respect to the tradition and as a sign of running in a responsible, safe and correct manner. Among all the usual advices, one of them is to comply the security measures during theRunning of the Bulls which some of them are not touch or mention the bullsnames, get up in case you fall down until the entire herd has pass you by and wear correct and appropriate clothing and footwear.

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Defibrillators in Estafeta

Pamplona will have available during the whole San Fermin Festival over two dozen points with defibrillators and trained personnel, thanks to the Lifesaver Project, which proposes that Pamplona will become cardio protected city during the San Fermin fiesta . The initiative was presented this Wednesday at a press conference by the Training and Development Director for the Lifesaver Project. Mr. Francisco Javier Bueno, together with the Geoactiv Development Director, Mr. Diego Bujanda, pointed out that Pamplona will become the first city to be cardio protected during San Fermin Festival.
They have explained that the capital of Navarre, Pamplona will be the first municipality of Spain having defibrillators available throughout the city, following the European recommendations cardio safety.
Therefore, Pamplona during the wholeSan Fermin Festival will have twenty different points of defibrillators and trained personnel to use.

"La casa del Libro". in Estafeta

 They will be located at the Cáritas; Palace Guenduláin Hotel; El Mercado Restaurant , La Casa del Libro (the BookHouse), in Estafeta St, Meson de la Navarrería; Maisonnave Hotel, Anttonenea Restaurant, White Horse Inn (Mesón del Caballo Blanco), Hotel Puerta del Camino, Gran Hotel La Perla, Bokart ; Napardi Gastronomic Society, Chueca Perez Pharmacy, Niza Café, Laura Maeztu Pharmacy ; Café Iruña, and Navarre´s TV Set.
Mr. Bueno has explained that they will create "heart attack save points throughout the city,"so that "if a cardiac arrest occurs at any point in the old town of Pamplona, any one can access a defibrillator in less than four minutes" Furthermore, this initiative will have a mobile application that indicates the location of the nearest defibrillator and the quickest way to reach it, thanks to a geo localizer.

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Camels in Estafeta

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Yesterday, January the 5th the Magic Kings arrived in Pamplona.Thousands of people welcomed the Three Magic Kings, accompanied by an entourage of more than 200 people. Pamplona´s mayor greet them at City Halls by expressing his gratitude and make them feel welcome to the City.

In this picture you can see my house on the corner of Estafeta with Merchants ... Yesterday instead of bulls we had camels, music, joy and excitement on the faces of all the children.

Everyone had many wishes for the Kings and expectancy that during the night they would leave lots of gifts in their homes. On the night of December 24 also visits the homes of children the Olentzero - Papa Noel.  In Spain it is considered that Christmas ends today, Epiphany. On Monday, children will return to school. Street Merchants and Estafesta won´t be so crowded until July the 7th when the first Running of the Bulls on San Fermin will take place.

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A youth “gored” on the Monument of the Running of the Bulls

Last August (2011), a young French man, who had arrived in Navarre in order to enjoy a prelude to the World Youth Day and who was seeing the Monument of the Running of the Bulls situated in the middle of Pamplona "became so exited taking photos that he slipped an was stuck by a horn" from one  of the bullsof bronce that represents the emblematic running of the bulls of San Fermin.

At seeing the blood of is companion , one of the other young men that accompanied him fainted and both had to be brought to the  Hospital of Navarre, where they were treated and subsequently released. Pamplona City Council has made the decision to prohibit anyone from climbing on the monument of the running of the bulls placed on Roncesvalles Avenue in 2007.

Pamplona City Council has made the decision to prohibit anyone from climbing on the monument of the running of the bulls placed on Roncesvalles Avenue in 2007.
The monument is of six bulls, three bullocks, and ten young men, made of bronze, with a total weight of more than ten tons.

The young men and bulls depict the journey of the running of the bulls over some cobblestones that simulate the pavement on Estafeta and that were made ‘in situ’ once the sculpture was placed.

7 de Julio... San Fermín

The letter of the oldest song of San Fermin is

                               Uno de enero
                               Dos de febrero
                               Tres de marzo
                               Cuatro de abril
                               Cinco de mayo
                               Seis de junio
                               Siete de julio... San Fermín
                              A Pamplona hemos de ir
                              con una media, con una media,
                              A Pamplona hemos de ir,
                              con una media y un calcetín.

Some group of friends organized dinner on January 1st, the 2nd of February ... so on July 7.

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