Bullfighting

The bulls from the Cebada Gago ranch in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz have a nasty reputation in Pamplona, which is saying a lot. Of all the bulls that take to the streets each year in the Sanfermines running of the bulls, the brutes from Cebada Gago are known for goring the runners...
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“The important thing is that you never lose sight of the bull’s face,” says Maripaz Vega. “Never.” Vega is a phenomenon that couldn’t have existed throughout most of the Spain that Ernest Hemingway knew. She is Spain’s only woman bullfighter. During Franco’s dictatorship, women were banned from attending a bullfight, to say nothing of...
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