Kids news: A pretty exposition on San Fermín

Hello guys! This week I went to an exposition in the Condestable Palace with my grandpa, my grandma and my brother. It was, obviously, about San Fermín. We enjoyed it a lot so my plan is to tell you about it. It´s an exposition made up by figures that have been created by Ignacio Fernández Chocarro. They are very elaborated and they represent different San Fermín moments.

 I leave you some photographs wishing you like them:

SAINT

Party epicenter...

·We celebrate San Fermín because of this Saint, because of it the party takes place.

 SNACK

Waiting for the 12 to arrive...

·It´s a very typical San Fermín thing that most of the families do. They got united and they eat eggs, ham... Waiting for the "Chupinazo".

 "CHUPINAZO"

At twelve o´clock on the sixth of July Pamplona transforms it self...

·It takes place every year in the Great Hall Square, where an important person related to San Fermín or the Mayor throws it.

SUN

Explosion of happiness in the square...

·After the "chupinazo" lots of people goes out to the streets and there´s a festive atmosphere. But, it´s real that most of the people is drunk and that´s not pretty to see.

FOREIGNERS

Sanfermines world party...

·Foreigners are people from other countries that come to Pamplona for the party.

MEMORIES

I wish I had...!

·Most of the people that come to San Fermín don´t have a place were to go to sleep so because of that: I wish I had...(a bed)!

FIREWORKS

Ohhh! It´s beautiful!

·Every night at twelve or eleven and a half the fireworks are thrown from the "Ciudadela" and lots of families go there to watch them with their strange shapes and colors.

1´ TO GO...

To San Fermín we ask...

·Before the moment of running through the streets the runners sing in the Santo Domingo slope a song to a figure of San Fermín. It´s like this:

"A San Fermín pedimos por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición. Entzun, arren, San Fermin zu zaitugu patroi, zuzendu gure oinak entzierro hontan otoi. ¡Viva San Fermín! Viva! Gora San Fermin! Gora!".

CURVE

Emotion at the begining of Estafeta...

·In the streets running for calling it in a way, one of the most dangerous stretches is the Estafeta´s curve. The bulls bang on the left of the street and the inexpert runners with them.

VICTORY

The Sun Mayor validates the victory in Pamplona...

·After the streets running the bullfight takes place in the "Plaza de Toros". The bullfighters or matadors kill the bulls and cut their tail or their ears and the Sun Mayor gifts them after their "victory".

JOSHEPAMUNDA

With their dances they make happy the San Fermín mornings...

·The giants go out all the days and they dance through the streets.

Joshepamunda is the giant that represents an Spanish Queen.

 GOODBYE

Goodbye, Joshemiguelerico, save my dummy...

·In San Fermín lots of kids gave their dummies to the giants for them to save them.

When you see the giants hands you can appreciate lots of dummies hanging from them.

"BARBAS"

Rest after the procession...

·The "kilikis" take a rest during the procession because they go running along behind the kids to hit them with their "vergas".

DANCE

After the eighth Napoleon dances with the "dantzari"...

·The eighth is another procession that takes place every fourteenth of July that rides to San Lorenzo´s church, in the which people go to celebrate mass because the figure of the Saint San Fermín stands there.

GROUPS

 The lads with the banners take the happiness to the streets.

·The lads go through the streets with banners that represent associations and those things.

I don´t really like them so much but a lot of people goes with them.

"POBREDEMÍYAFALTAMENOS"

Everything finishes for starting again...

·The "Pobre de mí" takes place the fourteenth of July at twelve o´clock on the evening. People go to the Great Hall Square with candles and the party finishes. The only good thing to tell about to some people for cheering them up is to tell them that now there´s less time until the next San Fermín starts again.

 ·This person is the author of the figures, Ignacio Fernández Chocarro, in a photograph in the which he´s making the San Fermín figure.

The sentence below says:

"I invite you to share with me the plastic expression of the feeling of a city that lives it´s party with emotion".

If you want to visit the exposition you sould know that it´s exposed in the Condestable Palace, in the point where the streets "Mayor" and "Jarauta" get united. The hours of opening are OPEN DURING THE WEEK between 8:30 in the morning and 14:30 in the afternoon.

Wish you liked it!

Miriam