Pamplona ready and hot for the Sanfermines
The uninterrupted holiday will begin at noon for 9 days, 204 hours, when the sub-director of the Tafalla Emergency Service and the UCI mobile nurse launch the sucker. Temperatures of 40 ° C are expected this Monday in the Navarre capital and a similar trend in the coming days.
San Fermín blow shot. Photo: Europa Press
Pamplona is ready to start this noon the sanfermines of 2026. With the launch of the txupinazo at 12:00, they will begin a continuous holiday of 9 days, 204 hours. This year, the heat of the good atmosphere will be added the climate factor, since the party will begin in the midst of a heat wave and the temperature will reach 40 ° C on Monday.
The capital will be on orange alertfor high temperatures. During the day the thermometer will be around 17-40 degrees, and at noon, at the time of the blow shot, it is expected to reach 33 degrees.
Clint Jean Louis Fernandez and Araceli Sergio Aguilera, Deputy Director of the Tafalla Emergency Service and Mobile UCI Nurse, respectively, will be responsible for starting the 2026 sanfermines. The candidacy of the NavarreSubdirectorate of Emergencies proposed by the rock La Escalerica de Sanfermines won the popular vote to choose who would launch this year's blowjob. It will be a way to highlight and highlight the work done by emergency health personnel during the San Fermín holidays, especially for their daily work in dealing with any incidents that occur during the lock-ups.
The blow shot can also be followed on the six giant screens that the City ofPamplona will distribute in the city (as well as on Orain - and ETB). They want to make the blowjob "more accessible" to giant screens without having to go to places where crowds of people are crowded. The screens will be in Plaza del Castillo, Plaza de los Fueros, Antoniutti Park, Yamaguchi Square, Paseo Anelier de la Rochapea and Plaza Arriurdiñeta delaTxantrea. The 2026 Sanfermines will have 516 events from 6 to 14 July.
This year they have opted for children's programming and the "decentralization" of the party, bringing performances, games and surprises to different neighborhoods of the city. As a major novelty, on Sunday, July 12, Diversity Day will be celebrated with the traditional Macedonian Pasacalles of Cultures. In addition, the stage of Sarasate has been moved to San José Square, where there will be jack festivals and cultural evenings. Finally, the livestock fair will take place on Saturday, 11 July, instead of 7 July.
After the blow shot, the music will fill the streets of the city withcharangas and band exits . They will depart from Antoniutti Park, Town Hall Square and San Francisco Square. The popular groups Galtzagorri, Ziripot and Maestro Bravo will set the streets. Amaiur, Ardantzeta, Basakaitz, DanTXaldi, Duguna, Eluntze, Harizti, Iruña Taldea, Larratz, Mikelats, Muthiko Alaiak, Oberena, Ortzadar and Txori Zuri will participate in the folklore festival at 1.30 p.m.
At 5 p.m. there will be an exit from the giants and heads at the bus station and, at 6:30 p.m., a run of bolts in the bullring.
23:00, XXV International Fireworks Festival. It's the turn of the competition's first collection. You can enjoy the show 'Con afouteza nos sanfermíns' by Hugo Salgado Álvarez, by Josman Pirotecnia (Ourense).
Isabel Laayoune will be in charge of the first stage concert in Castle Square at 9:30 p.m. Then, at 23:45 p.m., after the fireworks, she will be taken over by the legendary band Boney M of the 1970s, including Maizie Williams.
On July 7, St. Fermin's Day, it will be the first of eight enclosures, with bulls from Fuente Ymbro. Then on July 8, the cattle ranch José Cebada Gago; on July 9, Victorian del Río Cortés; on July 10, Alvaro Núñez; on July 11, José Escolar Gil; on July 12, La Palmosilla; on July 13, Miura; and on July 14, Jandilla.
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