Every year, the Festival of San Fermin, including the "Running of the Bulls", attracts thousands of visitors to Pamplona, Spain. Lasting nine days, the festival kicks off with massive crowds at the Chupinazo in Pamplona town square, followed by a carnival, fireworks, the running of the bulls, and many bullfights. Held since 1591, San Fermin remains a popular, if also dangerous and controversial, event -- dozens of people were injured this year. The festival came to an end yesterday, July 14. Collected here are scenes from this year's Festival of San Fermin.
Photos: The Festival of San Fermin 2013
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Revelers back away from an Alcurrucen's ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, on July 7, 2013. People from around the world travel to Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight day festival. #
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Participants hold red scarves as they celebrate the "Chupinazo" marking the start of the San Fermin Festival at Castle square in Pamplona, Spain, on July 6, 2013. Tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's streets for a drunken kick-off to Spain's best-known fiesta. #
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Festival-goers are sprayed with water thrown from balconies during the launch of the "Chupinazo" rocket, to celebrate the official opening of the 2013 San Fermin fiestas, on July 6, 2013 in Pamplona. #
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A festival-goer sleeps on a bench as cleaning operators work at Plaza del Castillo in the early hours ahead of the Running Of The Bulls, on July 9, 2013 in Pamplona. #
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(1 of 4) Runner Diego Miralles (blue and yellow shirt) is caught between the horns of an El Pilar fighting bull on Estafeta street, during the sixth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, on July 12, 2013. #
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(4 of 4) Diego Miralles is helped through a barrier by police and a fellow runner to receive medical treatment, on July 12, 2013. Four runners were gored in a run that lasted four minutes and fifty seven seconds, according to local media. Miralles, who was gored three times, was taken to a nearby hospital for surgery. #
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A fighting cow leaps over festival-goers upon entering the bullring following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, on July 7, 2013. #
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Runners are trapped in a stampede at the entrance to the bullring, pushed by steers and Fuente Ymbro fighting bulls, during the seventh running of the bulls in Pamplona, on July 13, 2013. #
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Revelers smile as sparks from the "Fire Bull", a man carrying a metal structure loaded with fireworks, fly on the fourth day of the San Fermin Festival, on July 9, 2013. #
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Spanish bullfighter Ivan Fandino waits to make the "paseillo", or ritual entrance to the arena before a bullfight during the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, on July 13, 2013. #
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Revelers raise red scarves and candles as they sing the traditional song "Pobre de Mi" (Poor Me) in the city council building, marking the end of the San Fermin Festival, on July 15, 2013. #
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