All colors of Fiesta

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The flow of life. // Bullrunning (Encierro) makes torero from any ordinary man and sleepless paparazzi from any journalist (to get the best part of a fence photographers take places from 3 a.m. though run starts at 8 a.m.). Run lasts about 1-2 minutes only, but memories won’t easily be erased. No matter where you run – in front or behind. Exaltation overfills all the viewers and runners except the bulls. As for them it’s the death race (bulls run to the ring to be killed during the bullfight).

Two men are waiting for the beginning of the bullrunning. One that looks outwardly calm is reading morning newspaper telling about several yesterday runners were knocked down by furious bulls. //

Every festive morning hundreds of people wearing traditional white clothes and red scarves gather on the old narrow street. All of them bring newspapers. To read and distract their minds form fear. And to hit fearlessly 12 bulls that will run with them to the bullring soon.

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The last step. //

Bullfighting is culmination of the festival embodying all its contrasts. Here two meets, but there can be only one.
It has lots of opponents around the world and exactly in Spain. But each afternoon of 9-day blood marathon Pamplona bullring (one of the largest on global map) gains about 19 000 people.

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