(Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images) Participants wearing traditional white outfits and red scarves take part in the first running of the bulls event on July 7. (Burak Akbulut/Anadolu via Getty Images) ...

At the stroke of 8 a.m. on July 7 of the festival every year, the bulls are released from their corral and charge through narrow alleys, toward the Plaza de Toros, the city’s bullring, where ...