Word: encierros
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...bulls. The weeklong annual celebration originated as a religious festival to honor St. Fermin, the patron saint of this small city in Spain's northern Basque region. Today the festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world, many of whom are drawn to its world-famous encierro, or running of the bulls, which begins July 7 and was made famous outside Spain by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic The Sun Also Rises...
...plural society. Savalli could be a poster boy for that pluralism, for rather than challenge Spain's grand bullfighting traditions, he seems to immerse himself in them. Savalli was 7 years old and "afraid of even cows then," as he admits, when he met his destiny, attending an encierro (running of the bulls). "I fell in love immediately," says Savalli. "I can't explain it. I didn't love school, I didn't love work, but I loved bulls." His parents were less enamored when, two years later, their son insisted on taking classes at the local Bullfighting School...
...Ears & a Tail. Out came the last bull. They had seen this one before. And the crowd went mad in a different way. That morning, during the encierro (a ceremony of running ahead of the bulls through the streets, which survives only in Pamplona) this bull had gored one Casimiro Heredia in the chest. When Heredia lost his head and tried to get up, the bull turned and butchered...
...rushed the yelling rabble of boys and young men, while women cheered from the safety of windows. From every doorway came male recruits to swell the throng. Across the city they ran, the foremost bull not three paces behind the last man. At the plaza the path of the encierro is marked by fences, behind which hundreds of tourists and visitors watched. A few, carried away by the excitement, vaulted the fence, joined the runners. Occasionally a runner fell, lay still while the bulls, their eyes on the moving mass, pounded over them. From the plaza the chase poured into...
That afternoon matadors killed the six fine bulls of Don Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...