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Bullfighting

October 2024

  • ‘Inexplicable frisson’ … raseteurs face the bull at the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer arenas

    Taurine torpor: bullfighting’s non-fatal French cousin fights for survival

    Picasso and Hemingway believed folk sports like the course camarguaise were the height of European culture. Facing financial struggles, rowdy spectators and animal rights concerns, can its practitioners keep the custom alive?

September 2024

  • Matador Manuel Granero with the bull, Pocapena, Madrid, March 1922. Granero would die as a result of being gored during this fight.

    From the Guardian archive
    Archive, 1929: The bullfight in Spain today

    8 September 1929: It is arrant nonsense to suggest that the bloody orgy of Spain’s Sundays and fiestas is on the wane

May 2024

  • A matador in a white costume holding a bright pink cape next to a bull in motion in a bullring

    Bullfighting firm in Seville to give free tickets to under-eights

    Company says move is best way to introduce tradition but critic claims it could psychologically damage young children

June 2023

  • Trainee matador Antonio Fernández Torres de Navarra, wearing his traje de luces and practising with his muleta, in Málaga’s La Malagueta bullring.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘We could lose our lives at any time’: young matadors in Málaga – a photo essay

    The latest recipient of the Joan Wakelin bursary from the Royal Photographic Society, photojournalist Owen Harvey visits Spain to explore what the divisive tradition of bullfighting still means to young matadors as the country heads for elections that could influence its future.

April 2023

  • Dwarf bullfighters stage a protest in front of parliament in Madrid.

    Spain bans decades-long tradition of ‘dwarf bullfighting’

    Law brings Spain into line with EU directives on discrimination against disabled people

February 2023

  • A bullfight in Pamplona, northern Spain

    Spanish court rules against plan to omit bullfights from youth voucher scheme

    Supreme court said bullfighting was part of Spain’s ‘cultural heritage’ but opponents see ruling as backwards step

November 2022

  • Flooded marshland used for grazing semi-wild bulls and horses in the Camargue.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘It takes more and more’: Camargue under threat from rising seas – photo essay

    In the Rhône delta the impact of climate change is putting the region’s economic and cultural worth at risk, including traditional bull festivities and natural beauty

August 2022

  • Sueca bous al carrer

    Spanish region urges ‘respect for bulls’ after seven deaths at fiestas

  • Bullfighters do the ‘paseillo’ or ritual entrance into the arena before a bullfight at Las Ventas in Madrid in July 2021

    Quiet corridas: Spain wonders what to do with unused bullrings

June 2022

  • An aerial view of the collapsed spectator stands at a bullring south-west of Bogotá, Colombia, that left four people dead

    Collapse of bullfight stands in Colombia leaves four dead, hundreds injured

  • Drone footage captures the moment a bullfight stand collapses in Colombia – video

March 2022

  • A bullfight at La Malagueta bullring in Malaga, Spain.

    Animals farmed
    Bullfighting still benefits from millions of euros a year in EU farming subsidies

    Public funds to farms breeding bulls keeping ‘cruel practice’ of bullfighting alive, say animal rights campaigners

November 2021

  • The story of mistreated animals in France, such as Mischa the bear, helped sway public opinion.

    France bans wild circus animals and mink farms, but not bullfighting

    Performances involving wild animals will be prohibited in two years, in legislation hailed by campaigners

October 2021

  • Bulls run through the streets of Tafalla, in central Navarre, after bull-running festivals resumed earlier this month

    Man dies after being gored at bull-running festival in Spain

    Death of 55-year-old attacked in Onda is first such fatality since events resumed after Covid hiatus

September 2021

  • Exotic pet trade<br>File photo dated 21/11/2019 of Ricky Gervais who is among the stars who has signed an open letter, sent on behalf of World Animal Protection and the Campaign to End Wildlife Trade (CEWT), to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to help end the exotic pet trade. PA Photo. Issue date: Sunday June 28, 2020. The CEWT, which includes 24 leading animal protection and wildlife conservation groups, says animals are being taken from the wild or farmed in cruel conditions to meet the consumer demand for exotic pets, traditional Chinese medicine and tourism, and this demand is a primary cause of the emergence and spread of diseases including Covid-19. See PA story SHOWBIZ Gervais. Photo credit should read: Isabel Infantes/PA Wire

    The age of extinction
    Rewriting extinction: Ricky Gervais joins celebrities creating comics to save species

    Peter Gabriel and Cara Delevingne also collaborate on picture stories to highlight species and ecosystem loss and fund projects

August 2021

  • The bullfighter Finito de Córdoba performs at Begoña bullfighting festival in Gijón, Asturias, northern Spain, on 13 August.

    Bullfighting festival axed after bulls named ‘Feminist’ and ‘Nigerian’ slain

  • File photo of bull

    Bull reportedly rammed to death by car after ring escape in Spain

February 2021

  • Miguel Ángel Perera

    Court rejects matador's bid to copyright his 'perfect kill'

    Judges rule bullfighter’s performance cannot be registered as intellectual property

October 2020

  • ‘It’s not easy to get to’ … classical sculpture meets industrial brutalism at Centrale Montemartini, Rome.

    Weird, wacky and utterly wonderful: the world's greatest unsung museums

    A bullring full of blood, a house full of sweet wrappers, a power station full of sculpture, a roundabout full of plants … Hilton Als, Mary Beard, Russell Tovey and more pick their alternative favourite museums

July 2020

  • A Peruvian tourist poses for a photo next to taxidermy bulls at El Pañuelico de Hemingway souvenir shop

    The non-running of Pamplona's bulls – in pictures

    The coronavirus pandemic has brought Spanish bullfighting, long reviled by animal rights campaigners, to a standstill. Dozens of events, including Pamplona’s running of the bulls, have been cancelled. Photographer Jon Nazca explores the evocative locale of the San Fermín festival
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