Pamplona Bull Festival 2012

San Fermin Fiesta 2012

When: 6th - 14th July 2012
Where: Pamplona, Spain

The Cult of the Bull ties up with the Cult of Bacchus to create a nine day long festival that is as wild as it is unusual as it is radical. Bulls run wild through the narrow streets of Pamplona, Spain to set into motion the fiesta of the city's patron saint Sao Fermin. In a ceremony that dates back to the 16th century, the bulls are let out from their corrals, driven and chased through the streets to the Bull Ring in a frenetic scramble of push and shove! The frenzy and excitement builds up to a crescendo of pure unadulterated adrenalin high!

It's an eclectic and dangerous mix that attracts the young and the old, the pious and the profane, the devout and the debauch. And they all come to spend the next 216 hours in an orgy of revelry, dancing, prayers and bacchanalian excess. Pamplona dons the mantle of the happiest place in the world - blood and gore notwithstanding, it's all about spirits - of the booze and boisterous kind!

La Tomatina Festival 2012
Did you say you loved tomatoes? Tomato soup, tomato ketchup, or anything with loads of the carotene-rich vegetable/fruit in it? Then Valencia (Spain) is where all your tomato-tinted dreams will come true in August every year.

La Tamborrada 2012
La Tamborrada, when the sleepy town comes alive and the bands start their march through all the barrios and streets of the town, with everyone trying their hand at the drumming!