Giant puppets

Men prepare to take part in San Fermin festival's "Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos" (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona. Enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day-long festival made popular by US writer <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST002259" title="Ernest Hemingway" href="/topic/arts-culture/literature/ernest-hemingway-PEHST002259.topic">Ernest Hemingway</a>.

( Susana Vera, Reuters / July 9, 2011 )

Men prepare to take part in San Fermin festival's "Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos" (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona. Enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day-long festival made popular by US writer Ernest Hemingway.

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