Running of the Bulls

I found a video of the 2006 Running last night on Youtube while looking for bullroarers. A blogger's viewpoint from Pamplona:

The history is very simple: long ago, when the shepherds would bring the bulls from the countryside to Pamplona they would spend the night close to the city and on the day of the bullfights, before dawn, enter running under vigilance of people on horseback and on foot helping with sticks and yelling to enclose the bulls.

With the passing of time, which knows when, people began to run behind and eventually in front. And this, which began as an aid to the shepherds, has turned into a peculiar custom which has come to define San Fermin: el encierro (or the enclosing).

In the beginning, the first section of the run La Cuesta de Santo Domingo (the hill of Santo Domingo street) was reserved for butchers and the number of runners never was that great.

The runs last an average of three minutes and occur July 7-14 at 08:00. Map.