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About the Pamplona Running of the Bulls
I'm sure you must have asked yourself this question by now: "Why?" Well, believe it or not, there is a good reason for this tradition. Basically, the bull corral is quite a ways from the Plaza de Toros where the bulls are fought. So every day, the bulls had to be transported somehow from the corral over to the bullring. The stablehands used to herd the bulls by running behind the bulls with rolled up newspapers, guiding them along the path to the Plaza de Toros. Young men from the town would gather along to watch the action, and soon people started joining in to help. And before you knew it, everyone was getting into the act.
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