April 19, 2012
Seville, Spain A sword is embedded in a bull after a bullfight in the Maestranza bullring (via guardian.co.uk)

Seville, Spain

A sword is embedded in a bull after a bullfight in the Maestranza bullring (via guardian.co.uk)

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Filed under: Spain Seville Bullfight Bullfighting Bull Maestranza La Maestranza Photography Death 
April 19, 2012
Seville, Spain Bullfighters and their assistants warm up before the start of a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring (via Reuters.com)

Seville, Spain

Bullfighters and their assistants warm up before the start of a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Spain Seville Bullfighting Bullfighters Matador Matadors Maestranza La Maestranza Photography 
March 14, 2012
Valencia, Spain Francisco Rivera performs during a bullfight (via guardian.co.uk)

Valencia, Spain

Francisco Rivera performs during a bullfight (via guardian.co.uk)

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Filed under: Spain Valencia Bullfight Bullfighting Matador Bullfighter Francisco Rivera Photography 
March 6, 2012
Olivenza, Spain Bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla adjusts his tie before a bullfight. Padilla, the 38-year-old matador who is also known by his professional name of ‘the Cyclone of Jerez’, lost his sight in one eye and has partial facial paralysis after a terrifying goring. He returned to the bullring on Sunday, five months after his injury. (via Telegraph)

Olivenza, Spain

Bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla adjusts his tie before a bullfight. Padilla, the 38-year-old matador who is also known by his professional name of ‘the Cyclone of Jerez’, lost his sight in one eye and has partial facial paralysis after a terrifying goring. He returned to the bullring on Sunday, five months after his injury. (via Telegraph)

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Filed under: Olivenza Spain Juan Jose Padilla Bullfighting Bullfighter Matador Photography 
March 3, 2012
Spain: blinded matador returns to ring to fight another day His face is still partly paralysed, he cannot chew food, his balance is shaky and he has lost the sight in his left eye for good – but less than five months after a horrific goring, matador Juan José Padilla is to make a triumphant and unexpected comeback. The last time the public saw Mr Padilla, he was stumbling out of a bullring last October in Zaragoza, blood gushing from major head injuries, and screaming: “I can’t see.” A five-hour emergency reconstruction of his lower face with titanium plates and mesh was successful, and Mr Padilla, 38, took the first faltering steps along what has been an exceptionally fast recovery. “The most glorious moment came when I announced to my family I was going back to bullfighting,” Mr Padilla, whose nickname is El Ciclon de Jerez [The Cyclone of Jerez], told El Mundo, ahead of his comeback in Olivenza, western Spain. “My wife didn’t want me to go back, but she had seen me in the hospital’s corridors using a towel to make [bullfighting] passes. And when I got home, she understood my happiness lay with bullfighting.” (via The Independent)

Spain: blinded matador returns to ring to fight another day

His face is still partly paralysed, he cannot chew food, his balance is shaky and he has lost the sight in his left eye for good – but less than five months after a horrific goring, matador Juan José Padilla is to make a triumphant and unexpected comeback.

The last time the public saw Mr Padilla, he was stumbling out of a bullring last October in Zaragoza, blood gushing from major head injuries, and screaming: “I can’t see.”

A five-hour emergency reconstruction of his lower face with titanium plates and mesh was successful, and Mr Padilla, 38, took the first faltering steps along what has been an exceptionally fast recovery.

“The most glorious moment came when I announced to my family I was going back to bullfighting,” Mr Padilla, whose nickname is El Ciclon de Jerez [The Cyclone of Jerez], told El Mundo, ahead of his comeback in Olivenza, western Spain.

“My wife didn’t want me to go back, but she had seen me in the hospital’s corridors using a towel to make [bullfighting] passes. And when I got home, she understood my happiness lay with bullfighting.” (via The Independent)

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Filed under: Bullfighters Bullfighting Comebacks El Ciclon de Jerez Injury José Padilla Matador Matadors Olivenza Recovery Spain Zaragoza 
September 26, 2011
Barcelona, Spain A photograph of General Franco hangs on the bicycle of a pro-bullfighting supporter, ahead of the last bullfight at the Monumental bullring. The Catalan regional government has banned bullfighting (via guardian.co.uk)

Barcelona, Spain

A photograph of General Franco hangs on the bicycle of a pro-bullfighting supporter, ahead of the last bullfight at the Monumental bullring. The Catalan regional government has banned bullfighting (via guardian.co.uk)

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Filed under: Spain Barcelona Bicycles Bullfighting Photography 
September 26, 2011
Picture gallery - the last bullfight in Barcelona The closure of the Monumental reflects the decline of bullfighting in Spain, though fans vow to fight on (via guardian.co.uk)

Picture gallery - the last bullfight in Barcelona

The closure of the Monumental reflects the decline of bullfighting in Spain, though fans vow to fight on (via guardian.co.uk)

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Filed under: Spain Catalonia Barcelona Bullfighting Animals Animal Rights Photography 
September 23, 2011
Spain fears pain as Ratón the killer bull prepares to enter ring for last time In the early hours of Sunday morning, the half-tonne 11-year-old killer bull known as Ratón, or Mouse, will feel a bullring’s sand under his hooves and sniff the scent of commingled human adrenaline and fear for the last time. Those who pay their €2.50 (£2.20) in Canals, eastern Spain, will witness the final chapter of a career spent chasing, and occasionally goring, people in bullrings at fiestas. Fans are expected to arrive from around the country. Many will be secretly hoping that Ratón, who has killed two people and reportedly gored five others in his long career, will draw blood when he appears for his valedictory outing in the small town near Valencia. A fiesta poster promises “a show with the presence of the famous Ratón” starting at half past midnight. It does not mention that Ratón killed a spectator in nearby Xátiva last month and another man in 2008. (via The Guardian)

Spain fears pain as Ratón the killer bull prepares to enter ring for last time

In the early hours of Sunday morning, the half-tonne 11-year-old killer bull known as Ratón, or Mouse, will feel a bullring’s sand under his hooves and sniff the scent of commingled human adrenaline and fear for the last time.

Those who pay their €2.50 (£2.20) in Canals, eastern Spain, will witness the final chapter of a career spent chasing, and occasionally goring, people in bullrings at fiestas. Fans are expected to arrive from around the country.

Many will be secretly hoping that Ratón, who has killed two people and reportedly gored five others in his long career, will draw blood when he appears for his valedictory outing in the small town near Valencia.

A fiesta poster promises “a show with the presence of the famous Ratón” starting at half past midnight. It does not mention that Ratón killed a spectator in nearby Xátiva last month and another man in 2008. (via The Guardian)

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Filed under: Spain Valencia Canals Animals Bulls Bullfights Bullfighting Ratón Retirement 
September 22, 2011
Miquel Barceló’s posters for Barcelona’s final bullfight create collector frenzy His paintings sell for up to £4m, but a limited edition copy of Spanish artist Miquel Barceló’s latest work can be had for free – if you know how to peel posters off walls without tearing them. Barceló’s 1,500 posters appeared glued onto hoardings, pillars and walls in Barcelona this week after Spain’s most commercially successful artist volunteered to design what is set to be the last-ever bullfight poster to decorate the city’s streets. With bullfighting to be banned in Catalonia at the end of this year, Barceló asked to paint the poster for the Catalan capital’s last bullfight. The fight, on Sunday, features Barceló’s friend José Tomás as one of the three matadors. It closes the season, and marks the death of bullfighting at the city’s Monumental bullring. Barceló’s poster has provoked a frenzy of art madness, with fans of both the artist and bullfighting desperately trying to get their hands on what is already a collector’s item. Queues have formed outside the offices of the fly-posting company charged with pasting them onto the city’s walls. (via The Guardian and El Pais)

Miquel Barceló’s posters for Barcelona’s final bullfight create collector frenzy

His paintings sell for up to £4m, but a limited edition copy of Spanish artist Miquel Barceló’s latest work can be had for free – if you know how to peel posters off walls without tearing them.

Barceló’s 1,500 posters appeared glued onto hoardings, pillars and walls in Barcelona this week after Spain’s most commercially successful artist volunteered to design what is set to be the last-ever bullfight poster to decorate the city’s streets.

With bullfighting to be banned in Catalonia at the end of this year, Barceló asked to paint the poster for the Catalan capital’s last bullfight.

The fight, on Sunday, features Barceló’s friend José Tomás as one of the three matadors. It closes the season, and marks the death of bullfighting at the city’s Monumental bullring.

Barceló’s poster has provoked a frenzy of art madness, with fans of both the artist and bullfighting desperately trying to get their hands on what is already a collector’s item.

Queues have formed outside the offices of the fly-posting company charged with pasting them onto the city’s walls. (via The Guardian and El Pais)

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Filed under: Spain Barcelona Catalonia Miquel Barceló Art Posters José Tomás Bullfighting Art Collection Art Collecting 
August 26, 2011
Almeria, Spain A Spanish picador and his horse is knocked down by a bull during a bullfight in Almeria, southeastern Spain (via Reuters.com)

Almeria, Spain

A Spanish picador and his horse is knocked down by a bull during a bullfight in Almeria, southeastern Spain (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Almeria Spain Bullfighting Picador Animals Photography 
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