Ernest In Pamplona, 1927

This is Hemingway with a bull in the Summer of 1927. The photo was taken outside of Pamplona, Spain, a town that was recommended to Hemingway by Gertrude Stein. It is in Northern Spain, just South of the French border. The famous "running of the bulls" is held here every year during the Festival of San Fermin.
Pamplona and Hemingway's vacations there were the setting and inspiration for his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises."
Another view

Here

Pamplona

This photo is from 1925, Ernest is in front of the bull; in the white pants and dark sweater.
He first went in 1923 after Gertrude Stein mentioned the Festival of San Fermin in Northern Spain as a good change of pace for him. He went for the second time in 1924 & again in 1927.

Hemingway In 1925

This was the rear cover
of "The Sun Also Rises."
He wrote the first draft
In two months after their
trip to Pamplona to see
the bullfights in the Festival
of San Fermin.