The San Fermin festival in Spain is one festival that draws thrill-seekers from all over the world. They come in their numbers to run through the streets with fighting bulls but for the second year in a row, the festival has been cancelled.
It was announced by the mayor of Pamplona, Mayor Enrique Maya. In his words, “To my very despair, I’m forced to officially suspend the festival of San Fermin in 2021”.
In February, regional president Maria Chivite had said the festival would not hold this year, but at the time Maya had refused to call it off yet and insisted he had the final say.
The mayor 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”.The last time it did not celebrate the festival two years in a row was during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.
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