Pamplona's San Fermín festival – in pictures

As the Fiesta de San Fermin gets under way, a reveller sports a haircut depicting a bull in a ring Photograph: JIM HOLLANDER/EPA

Participants hold red scarves as they celebrate the 'Chupinazo' marking the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival at Castle Square, Pamplona Photograph: PEDRO ARMESTRE/AFP/Getty Images

Revellers celebrate during the opening day or 'Chupinazo', of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls fiesta Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

The statue of San Fermin, the patron saint of the fiesta, is paraded through Pamplona on the saint's day, 7 July Photograph: VINCENT WEST/REUTERS

A woman selling balloons waits for customers Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

A Toro del Fuego (flaming bull) is run through the streets of Pamplona Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

A young reveller rests on Estafeta street early in the morning Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

Michael Hemingway, 16, Ernest Hemingway's great-grandson, walks beside his father, John, 53, at the San Fermin fiestas. The running of the bulls and the fiesta became famous following the 1926 publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

Two boys in bull masks sit on Estafeta Street
Photograph: Alfonso Secades/Demotix/Corbis

Women take part in a traditional Basque country sports competition of cutting wood Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

'Kilikis' wait for children to come out of the building where they are hiding during the annual parade of the giants and big heads Photograph: SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Participants unable to secure a hotel room sleep on the street Photograph: SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Elias Elizalde lifts traditional Spanish 'Churros', a deep fried breakfast of water and flour, in the family owned restaurant Photograph: SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Even pets are dressed in traditional red and white Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

Activists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) hold their annual protest, standing in coffins that symbolise the 48 bulls that will be killed during the festival Photograph: JIM HOLLANDER/EPA