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===Saint Fermin procession===
The key day of the festival is 7 July, when thousands of people accompany the 15th-century statue of [[Saint Fermin]] through the old part of Pamplona. The statue is accompanied by dancers and street entertainers, and different political and religious authorities including the city mayor.<ref name="statue">{{cite web |url=http://www.turismo.navarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=3003 |title=Chapel of Saint Fermin-tourist information of Navarre |date= |publisher=Government of Navarre|accessdate=2012-07-09}}</ref> During procession a [[Jota (music)|Jota]] (an ancient traditional dance) is performed for the saint, a rose is offered in the Saint Fernin well, and the "gigantes" (enormous wood-framed and papier-mâché puppet figures managed from inside) dance and twirl while the cathedral bell named María (Mary) peals.<ref name="procession">{{cite web
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The circuit has only changed slightly since 1852 as the former bullring was located close to the present one. Before that date the bullrunning ended in the "castle plaza", still not far from the present bullring.<ref name="ABC_history"/> While the origin of this tradition was the necessity to move the bulls from outside the city to the bullring for the bullfight it is not clear when citizens began to run in front of them. There are written records in 1787 that the tradition was already well established with no memory of its beginning.<ref name="ABC_history"/> The tradition of singing for protection to the saint dates back to 1962.<ref name="ABC_history"/>
The event is dangerous. Since 1925, 15<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/07/i_was_gored_by_a_bull.html |title=I Was Gored by a Bull. Is my life in danger? |author=Michelle Tsai |date=July 12, 2007 |newspaper=Slate Magazine |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731101753/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/07/i_was_gored_by_a_bull.html |archivedate=July 31, 2013 }}</ref> people have been killed during the event –– most recently on 10 July 2009<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/10/running-bulls-kill-man-pamplona| title=Bull kills man at Pamplona festival | newspaper=The Guardian | date=July 10, 2009 | author=Giles Tremlett }}</ref>—and every year between 200 and 300 people are injured during the run although most injuries are [[contusion]]s due to falls and are not serious.<ref name="Ayuntamiento">{{cite web| title= The Bull Run| url= http://www.pamplona.net/VerPagina.asp?IdPag=287&Idioma=5| publisher= Ayuntamiento de Pamplona (Council of Pamplona)| date= | accessdate= 2008-07-21| deadurl= yes| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080529011527/http://www.pamplona.net/VerPagina.asp?IdPag=287&Idioma=5| archivedate= 2008-05-29| df= }}</ref>
===Giants and big-heads parade===
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