'Enceirno' is what the Spanish call the Festival de San Fernim. It is a festival to celebrate Saint Fermin that uses what all spanish festivals use to celebrate a saints day. Bullfights; of course. But this city sought to it long ago that they would always be different by letting the bulls run through the streets to the bull ring on their own. Then it so happened that young men, in attempts to prove their bravery, would run out in front of the giant beasts. That city, of course, is Pamplona; and Enceirno, as the Spanish call it, is better known to you and me as 'The Running of the Bulls'. It was immortalized in Hemmingways' novel 'The Sun Also Rises', and Enceirno is still alive and well today. But not just doing well. It has
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