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A Spanish-style bullfight in the Plaza de toros de La Malagueta in Málaga, Spain, 2018. Spanish-style bullfighting is a type of bullfighting that is practiced in several Spanish-speaking countries: Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, as well as in parts of southern France and Portugal.
Two alguacilillos in plaza de las Ventas, Madrid. The alguacilillo (Spanish diminutive for alguacil) is a horseman who parades at the head of the paseíllo (the ceremonial parade of the bullfighters before a corrida) and wears 17th century alguacil clothes.
José Luis Vázquez Garcés (Spanish: [xoˈse ˈlwiz ˈβaθkeθ ɣaɾˈθes]; 21 December 1921 – 19 May 2013), [3] better known as Pepe Luis Vázquez (Spanish:), the same name that his son would later use professionally, was a Spanish bullfighter, considered one of 20th-century bullfighting's most significant figures.
Bullfighting is a long standing Spanish tradition that began in the pre-historic times. Although it is controversial and even banned in parts of the country, bullfighting continues to be a strong ...
Vázquez was born on 9 June 1957, the eldest of what would eventually be seven siblings from the marriage between Pepe Luis Vázquez Garcés and Mercedes Silva Giménez. By the time when Vázquez was born into this bullfighting family, his father had retired from bullfighting but in 1959, when the younger Pepe was two years old, the elder Pepe went back to the bullring for one season.
He was nicknamed "el Niño sabio de Camas" ("The Wise Child from Camas") for his precocity in the art of bullfighting. [4] This byname was given him by the bullfighting critic Antonio Díaz-Cañabate. [5] Before giving himself over wholly to bullfighting, Camino was an employee at a baker's oven. [6]
With protesters outside a full arena, bullfights resumed in Mexico City on Sunday after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and ...
A starkly powerful, observational study of contemporary bullfighting, Spanish auteur Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude” was the only documentary in the main competition at this year’s ...