Pamplona In Spain Suspends Sanfermines Bull Run For The Second Year In A Row

Pamplona In Spain Suspends Sanfermines Bull Run For The Second Year In A Row

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Pamplona In Spain Suspends Sanfermines Bull Run For The Second Year In A Row.

THE mayor of the Spanish city of Pamplona has cancelled the San Fermin festival, which draws thrill-seekers from all over the world to run with fighting bulls through its streets, for a second year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“To my very despair, I’m forced to officially suspend the festival of San Fermin in 2021,” Mayor Enrique Maya told reporters on Monday, April, 26. He cited the high Covid-19 contagion in the Navarra region and the low vaccination ratio.

“I’m having a pretty bad time. It is not a decision that was surprising, but health comes first and we had to make this decision and we have made it. It is a tough decision, it affects feelings, it affects the giants, it affects thousands of things … That is why this decision is so tough,” said the mayor, who added, “we are going to experience three San Fermin festivals at the same time in 2022!”

Regional president Maria Chivite had said in February the festival would not be held this year, but at the time Maya had refused to call it off yet and insisted he had the final say. On Monday, he said the city council will use the cash due to be spent on the July festival to pay for activities during all the summer.

The San Fermin festival gained international fame from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises.’

As well as the morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights, it features round-the-clock singing, dancing and drinking by revellers dressed in white clothes and red neckscarves. There are also religious events in honour of the saint.

Last year’s cancellation was the first in over four decades and was a big financial blow to Pamplona’s bars, restaurants and hotels. The last time it did not celebrate the festival two years in a row was during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.

Source: abc

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