The Wider Image: A century on, Hemingway's prose lures revellers to Spain's Pamplona
Jon Benito, dressed in traditional attire, participates in the procession of St Fermin, patron Saint of Sanfermines, through the streets of Pamplona, Spain, July 7, 2023. The famed bull-running festival engulfs downtown Pamplona every July when revellers from around the globe descend upon the northern Spanish city for nine days of adrenaline, sweat and debauchery savoured as freely as the wine flows. Some are drawn to the Sanfermines - as the festival is popularly known - by the timeless prose of Ernest Hemingway who became besotted with the Sanfermines on his first visit, exactly 100 years ago. The bull-running, the bullfighting local experts - and the hedonistic partying - captivated him so deeply that he returned eight times between 1924 and 1959. REUTERS/Susana Vera SEARCH "VERA BULLS HEMINGWAY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.