By the end of the 18th century the demand for the bullfight increased in popularity amongst the general public. This led to a lost of the exclusive right to fight bulls that the nobility had. Bullfighting started to become a respectable and honorable profession at last. At the beginning of the 19th century the bullfight used to be an all day event: 12 to 14 bull were fought in two sessions morning and evening.
Little by little the media corrida half a bullfight , comprising of 6 to 8 bulls, began to be accepted as the norm. By it had replaced the all day event. This masterpiece set out the rules and regulation of the fight and stipulating the dimensions of the bullring. In , the first performance of what is considered the current day bullfighting 6 bulls and 3 matadores with cuadrillas took place.
Juan Belmonte , a rogue and a rebel born into a large gypsy family in Triana Seville , introduced the modern style of Spanish bullfighting. At night, the gang would go to the countryside to sneak in to the bull-breeding ranches. There, they would use their coats as capes and confront the bulls. Belmonte and the rest had to pay a price — they were often hurt and chased away by armed farmers. Once he became a professional, Juan Belmonte introduced a daring and revolutionary style.
He stood within a few centimeters of the bull throughout the fight, unlike previous matadores , who stayed far from the animal to avoid the horns. As you can imagine, this technique and bravery display was extremely dangerous — Belmonte was gored on many occasions, causing him many serious wounds.
His grandfather, father, uncle and brothers were bull fighters, and his widowed mother, a flamenco singer , tried everything to keep him out of the bullring. When Joselito was 6, he was considered a child prodigy of bullfighting. And by the time he was 12, Joselito was performing professionally. Until Joselito did not encounter a challenging competitor. He was a classic matador and he respected the foundations of the tauromaquia bullfighting.
But, by the oddest quirk of fate, the revolutionary Juan Belmonte would soon enter the picture to break the status quo, altering every single prevalent concept of bullfighting. Joselito was graceful, while Belmonte was daring. Both turned toreo from a spectacle into an art and the period between and is known to aficionados as the Golden Age.
Bailador, the fifth bull of the afternoon, was not a particularly complicated bull to fight. Nevertheless, he was also what toreros call burriciego : purblind. A fan club in his honor and that of his rival, Herrerin, who was also killed by a bull, meets to this day, decades after the fact, in downtown bars.
Known as the birthplace of the Ordonez and Romero families, both great dynasties within bullfighting, there is a museum noting the historical importance of this Spanish town. Their ancient bullring ahs survived the centuries and the ravages of time. An annual. Madrid Bullfighting Bullfighting experience like never before.
The Maestranza in Sevilla, Spain Located far south of Madrid, but easily reached by varied mode of transportation this bullring is considered by most to be the second most important in Spain and perhaps the world. Valencia, Spain The port city of Valencia also has a large bullring that continually offers important bullfights.
Plaza Mexico in Mexico City It has always riled the Spaniards a little to know while they may have the most important or prestigious bullrings in the world, at least in their eyes, the largest bullring anywhere is in Mexico City with Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, Portugal In Portugal, the bulls are not killed in the ring and most of the bullfighting is done in the style of rejoneo or facing the animals off of horseback rather than foot.
On each pass that the matador performs well, the crowd yells and cheers. If the matador bends over awkwardly and steps back out of the path of the bull as the banderillero did, the crowd boos loudly. The audience would like to see the bullfighters behave exactly opposite from the way they would behave if they had to stand in front of a huge bull with only a cape for protection. The bull goes at the cloth not because it is red, but because the matador knows just how to shake the cape to attract the animal and make it go at the lure instead of his body.
The cape is yellow on one side and red on the other, but because bulls are color-blind, it makes no difference which side the matador presents to the animal. They prick the bull with their lances in order to weaken his neck muscles. They do this so that at the end the matador will be able to reach over the horns and place the sword blade where it should go--between the bull's shoulder blades.
The horses have been safely padded since , so there is less chance that they will be injured by the charging bull. Next, each of the three banderilleros places two banderillas "barbed sticks" in the animal's shoulders. These further weaken the bull's neck muscles. Finally the matador goes out with the sword and a little cape called the muleta. This is the most dangerous time of the fight, in spite of the fact that the bull is tired.
There have been about great matadores since , and 42 of them have been killed, generally during this part of the bullfight. This is because the little cape is so small, the bull has learned so much during the course of the fight, and the man must make his most dangerous passes at this time.
Killing the bull, called "the moment of truth," is the most dangerous maneuver of all. The man must run at the bull at the same time that the bull runs at him, and plunge the sword between the shoulder blades.
When this is done correctly, the bull will drop over dead almost instantly. If the matador has done his job well, the crowd applauds, and he is awarded the ear of the bull as a trophy.
If he has done a superior job, he is given both ears and the tail. The meat of the bulls is sometimes given to the poor, but usually the animals are butchered in back of the arena and sold for steaks. The ones in the shade sombra are more expensive than the ones in the sun sol. Some seats are designated as sun and shade sol y sombra because they begin in the sun but move to shade as the afternoon progresses. Seats located closest to the bullfight are also more expensive than those near the back.
So ones near the ringside barrier barrera which are also in the shade are the most expensive. Buying tickets at the actual arena can prove a major hassle as it is difficult to work out which ticket window taquilla you should go to and without a very good level of Spanish it is almost impossible to explain or find out which tickets you wish to buy.
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