Feast of San Fermin

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Spain started the San Fermin festival (San Fermin Festival), the main effect of which is traditionally held in the city of Pamplona, ​​famous for its "Running of the Bulls" - run of the bulls through the streets of the city. The ceremony of the festival "Sanfermines» (Los Sanfermines) opened Monday at noon with the traditional launch rocket propellant from the balcony of City Hall.

A day earlier, in Pamplona. Again, by tradition, the organization and movement of animal rights and PETA Animas Naturalis held a protest against the bloody entertainment during the San Fermin festival. Dozens of people in the central square doused their bodies with paint resembling blood. The purpose of the activists - to ban bullfighting and street race with the bulls.

Source: Etoday



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4. Protest PETA against the traditional races of bulls and bullfighting in Pamplona, ​​Spain.

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12. According to the protesters, all these violent entertainment "Running of the Bulls" and "bullfight" - barbarous relic of the Middle Ages.

13. Meanwhile, July 5, held in Barcelona scheduled bullfights, traditional season which starts in March and ends in October.



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22. The holiday, which will last a week, provides, in addition to traditional enserros and bullfighting, many other events - concerts, contests, children's matinees, and so on.



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