Visit Pamplona - home to the Spanish Football Federation and top-level league, La Liga pro football teams - CA Osasuna! Ernest Hemingway's wrote descriptions of the running of the bulls - encierros (bull running) during the Fiesta de San Fermín. His book, The Sun Also Rises, made Pamplona known throughout the world. Attempts to outlaw this dangerous world-famous ceremony have failed, and it remains a superstar attraction.

The festival usually begins on July 6 and lasts to July 14. Fireworks and Basque flute concerts are only some of the spectacles giving added color to the fiesta. Wine flows and people party nonstop for the duration. Reserve a year in advance at one of the city's handful of hotels or stay in San Sebastián.