Transcript PAMPLONA - Pingry School

Olé, el toro bravo
PAMPLONA
Capital de Navarra
PAMPLONA
• Capital de la Comunidad autónoma de Navarra.
• Home of El Encierro / The Running of the
Bulls, at the feast of San Fermín in July.
• 1999 was the 100th anniversary of Hemingway,
who memorialized the town with his book The
Sun also rises
La Catedral de Pamplona
¡Hola!
Sr. Carr y
los
Estudiante
s de Pingry
¡Hola! Sra. Carr y los
Estudiantes de Pingry.
La Fiesta de San Fermín - el 7 de julio
Chupinazo in Plaza Consistorial
At noon on 6 July Pamplona’s
plazas and streets are packed
with people awaiting the firing
of a rocket to signal the
opening of the celebration.
They hold their pañuelos or
scarves above their heads and
chant the Saint’s name, “San
Fermín! San Fermín! San
Fermín!.” This image depicts
part of the crowd in front of the
Ayuntamiento, town hall. All
eyes are intently fixed on the
balcony from which the rocket
will be fired.
La Sra. Carr frente a la entrada de
the Plaza de Toros
Pamplona – La Plaza de Toros
El Encierro – The Running of the Bulls
Los Gigantes
The morning procession of the
Gigantes and their court
begins promptly each day at
9:30 a.m. and winds its way
through the old quarter. These
huge figures, created by
Navarran artist Tadeo Amorena
in the 1800’s, represent the
kings and queens of Europe,
Asia, Africa and America. The
Gigantes are accompanied by
a colorful court comprised of
seventeen somewhat smaller
and more colorful characters
known as Cabezudos, Kilikis,
and Zaldikos
La Fiesta de San Fermín
A young girl attired in the
traditional dress of her
homeland, participates in a
dance troupe that performs
songs and dances dating back
centuries. This proud culture,
its customs and traditions are
on display in large and small
ways throughout the days and
nights of Fiesta de San
Fermín. The many cultural
events and exhibitions listed in
the official program of fiesta
are far too many for any
person to attend. Informal
impromptu displays are
encountered in the streets.
El Encierro
In Cuesta de Santo
Domingo, the very
beginning of the encierro,
the bulls are usually tightly
packed as depicted in this
image and they are racing
at a rate of speed no
human can match but for a
few moments.
Experienced runners who
know Santo Domingo well
can be seen here every
morning, running in the
Navarran style, oble y
bravo, in the aura of
danger and on the horns.
el periódico
El Encierro
Turning out of Plaza
Consistorial and onto the
shortest section of the route,
Calle Mercaderes, nearly
halfway through the course,
the bulls remain tightly
packed, pushing a mass of
humanity before them. Only
this segment of the course
and the bullring itself are
bathed in sunlight at this
early morning hour. The
balance of the half-mile route
is shaded by tall, balconied
buildings.
Las
Sanfermines
The Running of the Bulls
El fín de la Fiesta
El pañuelo
At midnight on July 14
fiesta ends. Again the
streets and plazas are
packed. The closing is as
different from and as
dramatic as the opening
on noon the sixth. All
carry candles and sing a
mournful dirge. A rocket
fires and pañuelos are
untied. The faces in this
image capture the
emotion of the last
moments of fiesta.
El traje de luces
El matador
Las banderillas
La muleta
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In his Traje de Luces, suit of light, Matador Julian Lopez, El Juli, executes a left-handed
pass known as a naturale with the bull “fixed” in the muleta or small red cloth. El Juli has
been a sensation since he fought and killed a young bull on the day he made his first
communion. The brave, artistic, baby-faced torero sells out bullrings on two continents,
earning millions of dollars each year. A favorite in the Pamplona Plaza de Toros, the crowd
chants his name, “Ju-li!, Ju-li! Ju-li!”
Plaza del Castillo y el Café Iruña
Café Iruña,
hangout of
Heminghway
The Statue of the Running of the Bulls
The Sun Also Rises, 1926
Quite possibly Hemingway's best novel,
The Sun Also Rises captures the romantic
idleness and angst of the 1920s Lost
Generation in most candid form. As a group
of post-WWI expatriates saunter between
wine and bullfights in Left Bank Paris and
Pamplona, their love and self-worth rise and
fall with luminous drama. The narrator Jake
Barnes, a thinly veiled version of the author,
recounts his ebbing relationships with exboxer Robert Cohen and love interest Brett
Ashley as they deal with their masculinity,
morals and unrealized loves. For all the
sexist talk about Hemingway, he creates a
most modern woman out of Brett Ashley,
who definitely wears the pants in her
relationships and struggles to break free
from insulated female roles of the past.
Inspired by a trip to the Fiesta de San
Fermin in Pamplona, Spain in 1925,
Hemingway based his characters on actual
friends and when it was published in 1926, it
immediately established him as one of the
greatest writers of his time
Heminghway at the Running of the Bulls
Ray Mouton
was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, received a
law degree from LSU and practiced in his home
state until 1988 before beginning to devote
himself to writing full time. A novel, After
Advent, was awarded first prize in manuscript
form by The Deep South Writers Conference.
He has written several film scripts and is at
work on a novel drawn from his experience in
the law.
His relationship with Pamplona dates to
1970 when he camped on the river bank
behind the bullring and he has attended
Sanfermines every year since 1986. He lived
in Sevilla for periods of time and spent winters
on a bull ranch in the mountains of Mexico,
places where he pursued his interest in the
subjects and themes of this book.
He has three children and a stepson.
Mouton and his wife divide their time between
Europe, Mexico, and the French Quarter of
New Orleans.
Pamplona's Fiesta has been described as "the
best week you can live on the planet," and this
book takes you to the epicenter of the grand
festival in Spain's Basque country.