San Fermin festival starts

San Fermin festival, best known for its daily running of the bulls, kicked off with the traditional 'Chupinazo' rocket launch. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. The festival will run until July 14
  
  


San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Participants, wearing traditional red bandanas, celebrate during the 'Chupinazo' in Pamplona, to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin festival Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
A regional music band wearing red berets, the traditional colour for the festival, tries to march through the crowd as some thousands revellers enjoy the celebrations Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
A garlic seller looks out from his stall during the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
A man celebrates under Pamplona city hall's balcony as several thousand people crowd together to attend the traditional 'Chupinazo'. A rocket fired from the balcony marks the beginning of San Fermin festival Photograph: Villar Lopez/EPA
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Participants, wearing traditional red bandanas, celebrate during the 'Chupinazo' in Pamplona Photograph: A. Arrizurieta/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
People wearing red scarves celebrate during the 'Chupinazo' in Pamplona Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Revellers celebrate in front of the town hall Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
People celebrate with red scarves in front of the town hall Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Revellers hold up a woman during the opening of the 2009 San Fermin festival Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Revellers are showered with water Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
People wearing red scarves celebrate during the 'Chupinazo' Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
More than one million people are expected to attend the festival Photograph: A. Arrizurieta/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
A tourist jumps in celebration during the 'Chupinazo' in Pamplona Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Tourists celebrate during the 'Chupinazo' in Pamplona Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Celebrations continue in front of the town hall Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images
San Fermin festival: San Fermin festival
Street sellers from Senegal prepare their goods during the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters
 

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