The famous bull-running festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, draws huge crowds, and some blame Ernest Hemingway for having included it in his novel The Sun Also Rises, written nearly a century ago.

Pamplona, Spain, summer 1926. L-R (at table): Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Pauline Pfeiffer, Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Hemingway. Wikimedia Commons ...

Spain was a vocation rather than a destination for Hemingway. And if Madrid always played the role of the transgressive city, "where no one goes to bed before having killed the night", Pamplona ...

A wild cow jumps over revellers after the second bull run of the festival, July 8, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera. In the book, the narrator - Hemingway's alter-ego - chronicles a tale of excess, of ...

Jake Barnes is an American newspaper correspondent working in Paris in 1922. Cohn, a friend who wanders around. Brett, the beautiful divorcee who has turned the French capital into a platform between ...

Hemingway himself took part in amateur bullfighting in the Plaza de Toros in Pamplona. The festival still takes place annually, though it was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The third bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival has ended with the event's first goring of the year. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Dozens of men resembling Ernest Hemingway and a breed of “bull” likely found only in Key West starred in Saturday’s “Running of the Bulls,” a lighthearted spoof of the famed run held ...

In the annals of European travel, few summer holidays have been so artistically productive as the trip taken by the aspiring 25-year-old writer Ernest Hemingway in July 1925 to Pamplona, the elegant ...

Ernest Hemingway brings together all of them, and the bullfighter Pedro Romero, a transcript of the Niño de la Palma, in the Pamplona of The Sun Also Rises (1926).