Pamplona. The feast of an Firmin
filled by Giulia
Pamplona is well worth a Fiesta.
If you want to visit the capital of Navarre, and if you love Hemingway, impossible not to participate at least once in the life of the Fiesta San Fermin.
Dressed in white as Jake and Brett, the main characters of Fiesta, the first great publishing success of the American writer, with the classic red scarf around his neck, you will be catapulted into the euphoria and excitement of an event that attracts 500,000 visitors each year.
For one week, the July 2, each day begins with the launch of the rocket at eight o'clock in the morning, which signals the release of the bulls in the streets of downtown.
For a few minutes the streets of the city are full of sweat, blood and screams.
They run with the bulls through the narrow streets of the city center, the mozos, young lovers of challenges and tests of courage, who are training for a year waiting for the moment in which to concentrate all the energy and adrenaline.
A party in two colors, white and red uniform of the San Firmines, but coming home seem to have lived with all possible colors.
Because everyone in Pamplona, in the week, also safely protected by railings of a balcony, living in strong colors the few minutes that you dispute the hencierro.
Six angry bulls and six steers trained to accompany them on their way, run through at high speed about 800 meters in just over three minutes: Calle Santo Domingo, Plaza Consistorial, Calle los Mercadores, Telefonica Estafeta and then enter the Plaza de Toros .
For seven days anyone can feel like a hero, a fighter who challenges his opponent with his horns without hiding behind a curtain cyclamen but running faster than a "avion" as telling the young brave, with his heart in his throat.
Dance, music, bands, parades, fireworks mark the time of the Fiesta crowded with young people from around the world.
For a week on Spanish television screens are repeated with various comments hencierri eight of the Fiesta, one after another: live, deferred, in slow motion, with the music that makes the bulls "run into the line."
Tapas in the Calle del Casco Vieho dancing every night until late, and singing the song of the week, , “torero vorrei cantar con tigo toda vita”, including bottles of beer and chocolate with churros.
In the Plaza de Toros, where the race ends and in the evening there is a bullfight at the box office is sold out since early afternoon, and if you want to see a comparison of the best bullfighters in the arena to do is to bend prices Fools of touts.
Because in those days you can lose the sense of money, in addition to the perception of time, space and the sense of danger. You lose the perception of reality between glasses of beer, sangria, wine and dyed blanco, pints of adrenaline and a sense of belonging to something intangible that has its climax in those few minutes every morning dell'hencierro.
And at midnight on July 14, the official time of the end of the Fiesta, the euphoria gives way to a huge gap.
The gap that opens as usual after the thrills and fleeting that leave their mark.
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